Chris Cillizza of CNN’s The Point wrote about Kellyanne Conway’s outrageous response to a question about the shitgibbon’s racist tweet.
Here’s Cillizza:
Witness this exchange between Conway and Breakfast Media White House correspondent
Andrew Feinberg regarding Trump's racist tweets over the weekend:
FEINBERG: Following up on the previous question: If the President was not telling these four congresswomen to return to their supposed countries of origin, to which countries was he referring?
CONWAY: What's your ethnicity?
FEINBERG: Um. Why is that relevant?
CONWAY: No, no -- because I'm asking a question. My ancestors are from Ireland and Italy.
FEINBERG: My own ethnicity is not relevant to the question I'm asking.
CONWAY: No no, it is, because you're asking, he said originally, he said originally from.
[SNIP]
CONWAY: He's tired. A lot of us are sick and tired in this country of America coming last. To people who swore an oath of office.
Cillizza chose to focus on the wholly inappropriate question asked by Conway and what he thought she was trying to do.
He writes:
This is, in a word, outrageous. What possible relevance does Feinberg's ethnicity have to do with the question he asked? Trump's Sunday tweets suggested that four Democratic congresswomen should go back to the countries where they were from.
and
The question by Feinberg was designed -- presumably -- to force Conway to address the fact that the President of the United States had told four American citizens to go back home.
and concludes
I'd be loath to put myself in her head, but my guess is that she was simply trying to be confrontational and provocative.
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But the way it came off was far, far different. Go back and read the exchange: It feels as though Conway is asking for proof of some sort of lineage before she is willing to answer the question from Feinberg.
I don’t think this is what Conway was doing at all and I’m surprised Cillizza stops there. What she was trying to do is make a White Supremacist argument. She points to her own European ancestry to show that SHE came from the right types of countries of which one can be proud. She is trying to back up the shitgibbon’s lickspittle that the Squad basically come from “s..hole” countries.
All of these Congresswomen are Americans and that should be all that matters but all these types see is brown which means “other” or “not us”. They are also imbeciles. While Omar and Tlaib have recent ancestors from Palestine and Somalia, respectively, Pressley and Ocasio-Cortez have deeper roots in this country than does the shitgibbon and two of his 3 wives. In the White Supremacist parlance, I guess all of his kids except Tiffany are “anchor babies”.
That Kellyanne Conjob’s comments seemed to fly over the head of Chris Cillizza shows how easily the language of White Supremacy is embedded in our daily lives. The media could use more journalists of color that are more likely to hear the underlying message of White Supremacists but they all need to step and do better in calling this shit out.
George Conway, put down the editorial pen and please come get your wife.