The ‘Baghdad Bob’ Republican of the week=Kellyanne Conway-Trumps spokesperson

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The ‘Baghdad Bob’ Republican of the week
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/08/26/the-baghdad-bob-republican-of-the-week/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_2_na&utm_term=.afec8dbd5324

By Jennifer Rubin August 26 at 9:00 AM

Kellyanne Conway on Trump detractors: 'It's not that nice'
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At a Washington Post Live event in August 2015, GOP strategist Kellyanne Conway commented on those who didn't take Trump seriously. In August 2016, Conway was selected by Trump as his new campaign manager. (The Washington Post)


Friday brings us to the “Baghdad Bob” Republican of the week pick, named in honor of the Saddam Hussein information minister known for hysterically funny lies about Iraqi forces in 2003. Remember that Sean Hannity has retired the trophy, so we cannot ding him for continually giving Trump refuge from real reporters.

We have our first female “winner,” Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway. We realize that her job is to spin, but her ludicrous declarations have served only to undermine her credibility and her candidate’s viability. She has managed to let loose many farcical statements in many different interviews.

Who could believe, as she told CBS’s Chris Cuomo, that she never heard of the “alt-right”? (“I am not that familiar with it, to be frank with you. I’ve read about it, but I think that we all start cherry-picking headlines from a website, and is Hillary Clinton running against a website?”) Or that Trump can call Hillary Clinton a “bigot” since she points out his racist rhetoric? (“She’s going to call him that today, she’s going to call him worse, and everybody’s going to cover it like it’s news.”)

Throughout the week she continued — in the face of Trump statements wildly at odds with his “deportation force” — to insist that “nothing has changed.” Not even Ann Coulter was buying that. Coulter went on a Twitter rampage after Trump sounded like Jeb Bush on allowing some illegal immigrants to remain in the United States....................