Kellyanne Conway blames refugees for 'Bowling Green massacre' that never happened

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Source: The Guardian

Kellyanne Conway blames refugees for 'Bowling Green massacre' that never happened

Donald Trump’s senior adviser uses fictional incident to justify
US president’s travel ban: ‘Most people don’t know that because
it didn’t get covered’

Claire Phipps
Friday 3 February 2017 06.01 GMT

Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser to Donald Trump, has come in for criticism and ridicule after blaming two Iraqi refugees for a massacre that never happened.

Conway, the US president’s former campaign manager who has frequently faced the press to defend his controversial moves, cited the fictional “Bowling Green massacre” in an interview in which she backed the travel ban imposed on visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries.

Interviewed by Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s Hardball programme on Thursday evening, Conway compared the executive order issued by Trump in his first week in the White House to what she described as a six-month ban imposed by his predecessor Barack Obama.

This claim has been debunked by commentators who have pointed out that the 2011 action was a pause on the processing of refugees from Iraq after two Iraqi nationals were arrested over a failed attempt to send money and weapons to al-Qaida in Iraq.

Conway told Matthews: “I bet it’s brand new information to people that President Obama had a six-month ban on the Iraqi refugee program after two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalised and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/03/kellyanne-conway-refugees-bowling-green-massacre-never-happened

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

1. More Kellyanne alt facts

[JHan]

2. Of course Chris couldn't correct her, he just let her spin.

They just need to clone Joy Ann Reid and have her handle most of the shows *smh*

[WhiteTara]

3. KellyAlt Conjob strikes again.

[SamKnause]

4. Chris Mathews should have been fired on the spot.

If these rich assholes knew there were consequences to their ineptitude

they wouldn't continue to allow these lies on their programs.

The media is the reason for the Iraq War, the reason Trump is the

president, the reason that Supply Side Economics is still being

pushed by Republicans, the reason that Cannabis has been demonized,

the reason that blacks have been stereotyped as violent.

The media is responsible for so many things that are wrong with this country.

[dalton99a]

5. Horrible massacre. Worst ever.