2016 Postmortem
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BREAKING: Trump shakes up leadership amid flagging poll numbers, appoints Kellyanne Conway campaign manager
Kellyanne Conway and Stephen Bannon, co-founder of Breitbart News
NBC NEW YORK Donald Trump is shaking up his campaign's leadership amid flagging poll numbers, NBC News has learned.
Kellyanne Conway already a senior adviser to the campaign told NBC News she has been promoted to the role of campaign manager. She confirmed that Paul Manafort will stay on as campaign chair but said Stephen Bannon, the co-founder of conservative Breitbart News, will come on board as campaign CEO.
...Kellyanne Conway should be familiar to anyone who's watched politics in the news, as a republican apologist who's trotted out to defend the indefensible. It makes perfect sense that Trump's elevated this inveterate liar to the head of his campaign.
Here's Conway in one of her special moments defending Missouri tea party candidate Todd Akin and his claim that womens ovaries repel the sperm of rapists. She tries to deflect criticism of Akin by claiming there's been a rise in 'sex selection abortions.'
...from Pensito Review:
Anderson Cooper challenged Republican operative/pollster Kellyanne Conway when she attempted to distort a conversation about Missouri tea party candidate Todd Akins claim that womens ovaries naturally repel the sperm of rapists by interjecting a false claim that there has been a rise in sex-selection abortions in the United States:
KELLYANNE CONWAY: The Washington Post reported on August 10th that there are Democrats who are going to the convention in Charlotte who want their plank expanded. They feel that its too draconian. It doesnt allow for partial birth abortion bans. It doesnt ban sex selection. Youve got all these little baby girls being killed just because theyre girls in this country
COOPER: Wait, wait.
CONWAY: I mean, Paul, under what
COOPER: Excuse me, where is that happening?
CONWAY: Excuse me?
COOPER: Where, as you say, we have all these baby girls being killed in this country because on sex selections, on abortions? Where
(CROSSTALK)
COOPER: Where is the evidence on that?
CONWAY: The Guttmacher Institute which is the research on Planned Parenthood has data on sex selective abortions. And actually Congress the House just passed a bill to ban that. Im not sure it ever went to the Senate. And Im sure President Obama would veto it if it was put on his desk
COOPER: But statistically, theres not really much evidence that that is actually occurring in the United States. Amongst some immigrant groups in small numbers it may be occurring but in no statistical measure is it significant.
CONWAY: Well, we should look at Guttmacher Institutes statistics to really illuminate us on that. But it does it does occur because theres so much science now people can they can know the gender of their baby and they make their choices accordingly. COOPER: It occurs overseas a lot but again I dont think the evidence is here in the United States. Ill double-check it. But I just read earlier.
CONWAY: Thank you.
Later, after a commercial break, Cooper came back on the air with the actual text of the Guttmacher Institute report and essentially called Conway a liar to her face...
read more: http://www.pensitoreview.com/2012/08/22/anderson-cooper-exposes-gop-operative-kellyanne-conways-lie-about-rise-in-sex-selection-abortions/
and this, recently:
liberal N proud
(60,356 posts)JCMach1
(27,593 posts)but hey, if these are the people he wants in charge. Proceed, sir.
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)Campaign all along. It can only get worse for them. They are horrible people.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)mahina
(17,803 posts)Nightmare
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