Kellyanne Conway's Bowling Green Blunder

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Tuesday February 07, 2017 · 9:01 AM PST

2017/02/07 · 09:01

Kellyanne Conway in an interview with MSNBC's Chris Matthews

Senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway is making headlines again after a recent statement she made in an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews. Conway used the phrase “Bowling Green massacre” when referring to a 2009 incident where two Iraqi nationals were caught trying to smuggle weapons back to Iraq to aid in terrorist operations. One of the suspects was later confirmed by fingerprint analysis, among other evidence, to be an IED manufacturer who made bombs that killed U.S. troops in Iraq. The man even admitted his intentions in coming to America were to carry out terrorist attacks here in the states. Although the incident was an embarrassment to immigration officials and the Obama administration, it certainly didn’t get as much news attention as Kellyanne Conway’s recent misspeaking about the incident:

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(Kellyanne Conway in interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews)

With all this being said, this is where many on the left sacrifice logical thought in order to make their point about social justice issues. A bonafied terrorist from Iraq who killed American troops was allowed to move to the states under the Obama administration’s refugee initiative. He did so with the intention of carrying out terrorist acts here in America; he admitted that. Yet the headlines and collective disdain by those on the left are about a trump adviser misspeaking about a portion of the story.

The Twitter reaction was swift, witty, and expected as many took to the platform to mock Conway’s blunder. The View chimed in with, well, what they seem to be contractually obligated to say, annnd New Yorkers did what they’re seemingly contractually obligated to do as well, having hipster gatherings and protests aimed at pointing out that yet another Trump person said something incorrect. It was a multi-pronged display of righteous wittiness over what I will acknowledge was an embarrassing swing and miss by Conway; but are those on the left whiffing the ball (when it comes to this story) too?

As someone who’s not a staunch Trump administration supporter, nor am I supporter of any ban on muslims and/or refugees seeking asylum in America for legitimate reasons. I’m not here to defend Conway’s statement, Trump’s policy, or any stance held by his administration. If her wordage, “Bowling Green massacre” was as (as liberals claim) an insinuation that there was a terrorist attack there, she was factually wrong; and she was ethically wrong for suggesting so (especially considering she’s an adviser and spokesman for the President). However, it wouldn’t be outside the realm of possibility that when Conway used the term “massacre”, to the numerous U.S. troops who were killed by bombs made by the terrorist captured in Bowling Green, KY.

It’s not wrong for the media and those on the left to call someone out when they make a mistake. However, it’s absurd how much notoriety cynical internet trolling receives when it’s nothing more than divisive and diplomatic double standards. For instance, Chelsea Clinton took to Twitter to slide in a jab at Conway in a tweet about an incident at the Louvre in Paris.

Speaking of made up attacks, perhaps Chelsea doesn’t remember her mother making a recent claim that she once stepped off a plane in Bosnia in 1996 and dodged sniper fire while she was First Lady, an incident that clearly did not happen:

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Furthermore, it speaks volumes about the lack of prioritization of issues by many on the left when the headlines and outcries are centered around a blunder made by Kellyanne Conway, and not the blunder made by our national security infrastructure as a whole; a blunder that one could argue Conway was simply trying to use as an example. That blunder could have, like it has in the past, cost innocent American lives; but by all means, let’s forget about an active terrorist already responsible for the deaths of Americans being allowed to move to the states (with the intention of killing more Americans). Let’s instead talk about something embarrassing that Kellyanne Conway said. Priorities, priorities.

Below are links to articles embedded in underlined sections above, and other additional articles showing how (in my opinion) the talking heads on the left would rather talk about Conway misspeaking about the location of this bomb maker’s violent attacks instead of the fact he was allowed entry to America: