CNN Gets Savaged for Kellyanne Conway ‘Puff Piece’: Like Celebrating Goebbels as ‘Badass of Berlin’
CNN reporter Dana Bash and her network are being absolutely wrecked on Twitter for tweeting a fluffy interview of White House counselor and Alternative Factotum Kellyanne Conway with the hashtag “BadAssWomenDC.”
On Wednesday night, CNN tweeted out the 8-minute video package with the message “Kellyanne Conway’s humble New Jersey roots laid the foundation for a long career in a male-dominated world of politics. Now, she’s the one consistent figure in the otherwise revolving door of the Trump White House. #BadassWomenDC”
The interview and slick video package paint Conway — who once jokingly threatened to perform an abortion on a feminist “with a gun” — as a pioneer for women, and while Conway’s relationship to “alternative facts” is briefly mentioned in the fluffy background, Bash doesn’t challenge Conway during the interview.
As of this writing, that tweet has achieved a deadly ratio of almost ten-to-one replies to “likes,” and the comments have not been kind to CNN.
Perhaps the harshest reaction came from former Hillary Clinton senior staffer Philippe Reines, who likened the piece to a celebration of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels:
.@DanaBashCNN Kellyanne does one thing consistently:
LIE
She‘ll “survive” until the very end of the most deceitful WH in history the way Goebbels survived until the very end: In the bunker, next to you know who.
He a “Badass of Berlin” to be celebrated?https://t.co/lqWlZ8A9V5
— Philippe Reines (@PhilippeReines) March 21, 2019
Bash responded to Reines, but he was undeterred:
I was ignoring your rants until you brought in the Holocaust. As the granddaughter of those who barely escaped the Nazis I implore you to take a deep breath.
— Dana Bash (@DanaBashCNN) March 21, 2019
I know your background Dana. Invoking it won’t shame me or spare you. And on top of my previous ‘rants’ here are 3 more pathetic parts to what you’re doing:
•She’s destroying the network you’ve given your life to
•She all but threatened you on air
•She’d leak to you anyway
— Philippe Reines (@PhilippeReines) March 21, 2019
Other reactions from verified Twitter weren’t much more favorable.
This feels like satire but it’s not right?
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) March 21, 2019
“I lie every day at the expense of my country” #BadassWomenDC
I could do this all night
— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) March 21, 2019
You should do Tomi Lahren next…from her parents bathroom mirror to FOX #BadassNazis.
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) March 21, 2019
As a woman and a badass in DC, I can confirm that Kellyanne Conway has not been offered membership in our ranks. I wish her luck in applying for membership to the human race first. https://t.co/8uTTCgZl1l
— Charlotte Clymer?️? (@cmclymer) March 21, 2019
Shame on @CNN Kellyanne Conway is not “badass,” she’s part of a treasonous criminal conspiracy that is destroying this country. @DanaBashCNN lauding her like this is disgusting. This is propaganda, not journalism. https://t.co/tWj3fU8lZF
— Christopher Golden (@ChristophGolden) March 21, 2019
Not just that Kellyanne Conway is a notorious liar for President Trump, she has aggressively spun lies that are Islamophobic (Bowling Green Massacre), xenophobic, racist, etc. Elevating her does so much harm to US. False legitimacy from mainstream media literally has no bounds.
— David Rothschild (@DavMicRot) March 21, 2019
"Leni Riefenstahl's hardscrabble childhood in Berlin uniquely equipped her to weather the Fuhrer's murderous purges."
— Dennis Perkins (@DennisPerkins5) March 21, 2019
CNN’s “Badass Woman” puff piece about Kellyanne Conway completely misses the point: she lies, and she lies a lot https://t.co/l6apFdTOZ9
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 21, 2019
Watch the interview above, via CNN.
