Kellyanne Conway's "triple standard": A game of two half-truths and a lie

[DonViejo]

SATURDAY, MAR 11, 2017 6:00 PM UTC

Kellyanne Conway’s “triple standard”: A game of two half-truths and a lie

The Trump mouthpiece's newest catchphrase tries to paint conservative women as victims of the feminist left

ERIN KEANE

Last weekend, Kellyanne Conway sat down with “CBS This Morning” for an in-depth one-on-one interview designed to make the political operative described by Samantha as President Donald Trump’s “omnipresent spokes-cobra” seem less of a sentient Two Truths and a Lie drinking game and more like an actual human. In this interview, Conway appeared to be testing the waters for a new Kellyanne Katchphrase™ when she claimed that she and other conservative women are subject to “a triple standard” by the media, specifically “traditional feminist outlets.”

“We are constantly going back to where I sat, the presumptive negativity of what I wore, or what I said, and I do think it’s a triple standard,” Conway told correspondent Norah O’Donnell. “People talk about a double standard of what a woman wore or said, but the triple standard is that conservative women are cast aside many times by traditional feminist outlets and individuals who control most of the media.”

Kellyanne Conway is just being Kellyanne Conway here — testing out a new verbal trinket to see if it sounds true-ish enough, albeit in some fact-detached way, to catch on, without too much attention being paid to what it actually means. (A “triple standard” is much slipperier than the ham-fisted “alternative facts,” that’s for sure.) If you don’t think too much about it — and Conway is banking on the people at home doing just that — a “triple standard” definitely sounds like it could be a thing. After all, in this age of our collective slow-mo apocalypse, it only makes sense that we’ve suddenly found a way to make a bad thing exponentially worse.

It might be a fool’s errand to put “truth” and “Kellyanne Conway” in the same sentence, but does her claim that liberal women hold their conservative counterparts to an even higher standard than they are held have any basis in reality?

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[caroldansen]

1. No.

[world wide wally]

2. She is a professional liar

Like a pro golfer or athlete, she thinks about the art of lying when she goes to bed at night. Twisting phrases, doublespeak, misdirectin, deflection, new catch phrases and phraseology.
Never doubt her when it comes to lying. She is THE expert.

[USALiberal]

3. I cannot stand seeing her talk! Ugg! So annoying. n/t

[Hortensis]

4. Not-So-Perky's made a good living for years advising

male conservative politicians on how to sell their knuckledragging selves and goals to women, especially conservative women. She's very comfortable with exploitation and betrayal, accomplished of course by well crafted and delivered lies.

I do feel we should try to understand conservative women better and respect what is respectable (it is there!), but that's hardly the same as agreeing with Not-So's spin.

Btw, this reminds me of Ben Carson's priceless telling a group of probably fairly sophisticated Republican women that their job was to fight left-wing feminists' castration of men. The camera was behind them, so I couldn't rewind to watch their faces, but I sure wanted to.

[moriah]

5. I think we hold them to the standards their party suggests.

If Michelle Obama was unprofessional by showing bare arms, then yes, Conservative women who don't come out and say it was ridiculous to criticize her for that are probably going to be criticized for aiding and abetting that hypocrisy.

As for what a woman says, fair game. Keep talking Con-way.