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randompersonsposts:thisiseverydayracism:diversehighfantasy:micdotcom:Kellyanne Conway invents fake terrorist attack “Bowling Green Massacre”In a Thursday night interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, Kellyanne Conway defended Trump’s travel ban with what she would call “alternative facts” — the rest of us would call them lies.Trump’s top adviser spoke of the “Bowling Green Massacre,” which she said was carried out by two Iraqi refugees.She slammed the press for not covering the tragedy, which is why, Conway maintained, most people don’t know about it.However, as the Washington Post notes, such a terrorist attack never occurred in Bowling Green, Kentucky.Conway seemed to be referring to the 2011 arrest of two Iraqi citizens living in Bowling Green who were charged with attempting to send money and weapons to al-Qaida. Read moreWe can laugh, but the lie has served its purpose. There are many Americans who believe the media covered up domestic terrorist attacks by Muslims. The media can say all day long it never happened, won’t matter, because they’ve been conditioned to see the media as the liars.The result is more fuel on the anti-Muslim fire regardless of whether the claim is demonstratively false.This. They know exactly what they’re doing. They know it worked during the campaign. They know it’ll work again. Simply pointing out their lies won’t work. The same strategies will produce the same results. We need to do something different.We need to stop having her on TV. The best thing we can do is pay attention to the laws, and bills, and exec orders, directives, all actions they are taking. We need to stop asking them to sit down and lie about what they’re doing and why.Every time she or Giuliani or any of those fools go on TV to defend Drumpf, we need to flood the channel that aired it with negative emails, letters, and tweets.We need to call them trash for even dealing with her and encourage their sponsors to stop supporting stations that help the government lie to Americans.Like, every interview should have an online post about what was a lie and then the commercials that immediately followed it.They only ever aired Drumpf’s nonsense for the ratings which means sponsor money.If the sponsors get backlash for supporting CNN shows featuring Kellyanne, she won’t get booked.Money talks. News shows have to stop profiting from our countries demise. -- source link