The defining feature of the Donald Trump campaign for the presidency was lying. His lying, his surrogates' lying, his staff lying. Whether it was Corey Lewandowski lying about grabbing a reporter even after video showed him doing just that or Whatsherface Bulletnecklace taking to CNN and blatantly lying to the public day after day—oh, and thank you again, CNN, for doing such a bang-up job accommodating that—lies were the grease that lubricated the entire campaign.
Campaign manager and soon-to-be God Knows What Kellyanne Conway is continuing the tradition by flatly lying about campaign CEO Steve Bannon's embrace of white nationalism.
Well, I have to say, I'm personally offended that you would think I would manage a campaign where that would be one of the going philosophies.
Do we think you'd do that? We saw you do it. We think you'd don a Klan hood and parade around the White House lawn if you thought it would have given your boss more votes than he lost. We know what you are, dear campaign manager, now we're just haggling about the price.
I know that people weren't prepared for us to win, and so they're reaching around to find extreme examples of perhaps those extreme examples of those who support the President, but [...]
Not people who "support" the president. People the president-elect "supports." And puts in top government positions. And puts in charge of administration strategies going forward.
But thanks for the fair coverage.
There you go. If you report the plain fact of Donald Trump appointing a white nationalist "news site" mastermind as his administration's top strategist, you're not being fair. Thank you, Ms. Riefenstahl. It's nice to know that you don't even think working with a proud, self-identified promoter of white nationalism is against your "philosophies."
Incidentally, as I write this one of the top Google hits right now for Kellyanne Conway's "personally offended" speech is a neo-Nazi website, which put the story under the headline "Faggots and Jews Whining About Bannon Appointment." They're quite pleased with Conway. As, of course, they should be.