Kellyanne Conway Blasted for Telling People to Read NZ Shooter’s Manifesto: ‘Monstrously Bad Idea’
Political observers are not impressed with Kellyanne Conway for defending President Donald Trump by recommending people read the Christchurch shooter’s manifesto.
Conway appeared on Fox & Friends today in order to push back on critics who’ve connected Trump to the shooting where scores of Muslims were killed by an Islamophobic white supremacist. As reporters have noted, the alleged shooter named Trump in his manifesto by calling the president “a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose.”
As Conway responded with a bogus talking point about the 2017 Congressional Baseball Shooting, she rejected the “outrageous” notion that the New Zealand massacre has any connection to Trump at all. She also recommended that people should read the shooter’s manifesto for themselves to get the context of Trump’s mention.
“This man put out a 70-page manifesto. Everybody scoured it for Donald Trump’s name and there it was one time… [The shooter] said he’s not a conservative. He’s not a a Nazi…People should read [the manifesto] in its entirety.”
Conway’s comments have drawn notice from the Twitterverse, and many reactors do not approve of the idea that the White House is suggesting that people read a murdering bigot’s propaganda, which would give more exposure to his message.
This is a really dangerous suggestion https://t.co/DwFvwE2oyQ
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) March 18, 2019
Why is the White House encouraging people to read this guy’s manifesto? https://t.co/GD23vwt5tV
— Blake News (@blakehounshell) March 18, 2019
Don’t sleep on the Counselor to the President actively encouraging people to read white nationalist propaganda written by a mass murderer. https://t.co/vWddV5SmQX
— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) March 18, 2019
As the rest of the national security and law enforcement community works to limit distribution of this manifesto, the White House is unconcerned with the risks of spreading virulent ideology, because all that really matters is whether Trump gets blamed. https://t.co/3Cs1rQ5V5H
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) March 18, 2019
As the rest of the national security and law enforcement community works to limit distribution of this manifesto, the White House is unconcerned with the risks of spreading virulent ideology, because all that really matters is whether Trump gets blamed. https://t.co/3Cs1rQ5V5H
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) March 18, 2019
Why on earth would you encourage anyone to read that manifesto? https://t.co/lkL2KqKyC3
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) March 18, 2019
please spread a mass shooter’s manifesto to own the libs https://t.co/mSU7Q8TmwL
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) March 18, 2019
Just a White House adviser urging everyone to go read the manifesto of a white supremacist terrorist. Pretty standard stuff. https://t.co/pqeZrAJc1S
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) March 18, 2019
News outlets ranging across the ideological spectrum have decided that spreading the manifesto without context or publicizing the shooter’s name and image is a horrible idea and will do more to create copycat attackers.
BUT NOT KELLYANNE CONWAY, APPARENTLY.
— Jane Coaston (@cjane87) March 18, 2019
.@KellyannePolls is on @foxandfriends urging people to read the New Zealand shooter’s entire bigoted manifesto in which he describes Trump as “a symbol of renewed white identity & common purpose,” because she thinks studying it will somehow prove Trump didn’t really inspire him. pic.twitter.com/W8v8gpaEyX
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 18, 2019
A monstrously bad idea for several reasons, especially for Conway, since the shooter was obsessed with immigrants, and thought the president was a staunch defender of white identity who simply wasn’t going far enough. https://t.co/aOS4SV4drA
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) March 18, 2019
My God no. https://t.co/m4NDdB8AFJ
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) March 18, 2019
Watch above, via Fox News.
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