Shitposting and trolling in compensation for his wife’s recent CNN meltdown, George Conway today tweeted pages from the DSM-5 manual in reference to his prior rant calling Individual-1 as a malignant narcissist.
George’s tweet was a media frame designed to draw attention from Kellyanne’s recent appearance on Fox News urging Trumpists to read the NZ shooter’s manifesto, producing her own variety of shitposting bizarre disinformation. She’s essentially doing PR for the shooter.
WaPo calls the manifesto a “press release for racism” and Conway’s pleas to read it are meant to reinforce the talking points for the Trumpian base, hence giving it a wider distribution to a receptive audience.
It’s definitely clearly signaling that the author is a white supremacist, and anti-immigration and anti-Muslim. We can take that away and draw some insight from it. But when you get down to the particulars, there are a lot of statements in there mainly to try get news coverage, to get people to say dumb things on TV, or to repeat memes or jokes that white supremacists and white nationalists use online to get people to search for them and try to bring attention to that cause.
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George and Kellyanne are some sort of vaudeville double act, and George gets to be the straight man. So while Kellyanne tries to get more people to real the killer’s manifesto, George is there to suggest that there are still adults in charge, somewhere in DC, even if the biggest shitposter is in the White House. Meta abounds.
Presented with her husband’s concerns Monday, Kellyanne Conway dismissed them.
“No, I don’t share those concerns,” she said, speaking to reporters on the White House driveway after having done an interview with Fox News from the North Lawn.
“I have four kids and I was getting them out of the house this morning to talk to the president about substance, so I may not be up to speed on all of them,” Kellyanne Conway said, referring to her husband’s tweets.
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Trump so far has been more restrained in his criticism.
He did, however, refer to George Conway as “Mr. Kellyanne Conway” in an exchange with reporters in November after Conway questioned Whitaker’s appointment.
“He’s just trying to get publicity for himself,” Trump said. “Why don’t you do this, why don’t you ask Kellyanne that question, all right? She might know him better than me. I really don’t know the guy.”
While much is made of the success of the mixed marriage of Republican operative Mary Matalin and colorful Democrat James Carville, the Conway/Conway marriage is D.C.’s biggest head-scratcher.
Day after miserably overcast day, Kellyanne suits up predawn to tackle another 12-15 hours as Trump’s trusted adviser/media basher/mouthpiece/sycophant.
And George? As he watches the woman he fell in love with and the mother of his children refill her monogrammed Yeti with coffee and head out to her waiting Town Car, he must gaze sadly after her … finding it difficult to recall what exactly he admires about her. Harsh? Maybe. But George Conway doesn’t shy away from the tough stuff so why should I?
Unlike the Carville/Matalin marriage, which has almost always been played for giggles and tame jabs at one another’s political persuasion, this is live-time dissing at an extraordinary level.