Yup, the massacre happened in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and the press never reported it, according to Trump adviser KellyAnne Conway.
Wait. The Bowling Green massacre is an alternative fact in the Trump/Spicer/Conway alternate reality. It never happened.
Conway, in an interview last Thursday on MSNBC’s Hardball, came up with this ditty (fake news) to defend and justify her boss’s ban on refugees and nationals from seven predominately Muslim countries.
“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 radicalized, and were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green Massacre. Most people don’t know that because it didn’t get covered,” Conway said during an interview on MSNBC.
After the feces hit the fan, USA Today noted that “early Friday Conway said she misspoke when she used the phrase ‘Bowling Green massacre.’ Really, she said in a tweet that links to an ABC News article, she meant [to] say ‘Bowling Green terrorists.’”
“In the tweet, Conway linked to a mainstream news item from 2013 despite complaining in her appearance on Hardball that the mainstream media didn’t cover the episode. USA TODAY and other news outlets also covered the case.”
USA Today further clarified, “Two Iraqi men who lived in Bowling Green, Ky., were indicted in 2011 and are serving life sentences for using improvised explosive devices against U.S. soldiers in Iraq and also for attempting to send weapons and money to Al-Qaeda in Iraq for the purpose of killing U.S. soldiers. The Department of Justice says so—right here.”
After being the object of mockery, complete with a fake vigil for the victims of the fake massacre, Conway lashed out at her critics in an interview Sunday with FOX News’ Howard Kurtz, calling them “haters.”
“I should have said plot or I should have just called them terrorists. . . . I clarified immediately. I should have said terrorists and not massacre,” Conway said. “I’m sure it will live on for a week.”
“Clarified immediately” is another alternative fact because that wasn’t the first time she cited the massacre that never happened. Huffington Post reported, “She had referred to the ‘Bowling Green massacre’ in more detail several days earlier in an interview with Cosmopolitan magazine, in which she wrongly claimed that President Barack Obama had called for a ‘ban on Iraqi refugees’ after the incident.”
“And on Jan. 29, Conway mentioned Bowling Green in an interview with TMZ.”
Conway’s claim that Obama called for a “ban on Iraqi refugees” is another alternative fact. What the Obama administration did after two Iraqi refugees were arrested in Kentucky in May 2011 was initiate a review of some 57,000 Iraqi refugees who had recently been admitted into the US.
Bev Conover is the editor and publisher of Intrepid Report. Email her at editor@intrepidreport.com.
thanks for clarifying this Bev. i had begun to think there really was something called the bowling green massacre. pathetic conway woman on trumps dole one way or another apparently making a living propagating this sort of thing.
Yes, indeedy ma’am: I am one of those haters. I admit to it. I hate when I am so blatantly lied to. I hate it when the whole bunch of them think I am so stupid that I am going to fall for their conning lies. I hate it when they try to impose their regime on this nation through the fear door. I hate it when they trample on me, on the constitution, on the press, on truth, on our children, our elderly, our diversity. I hate it when they try to make me and the rest of this nation drink from the same poisonous water dish that they all drink from. I hate it when they say they are going to drain the swamp but really mean that they are going to feed every snake and alligator that dwells in the swamp. I hate it and hate the lying liars show they put on everyday for their benefit … I hate it even more when there are people who buy their stupid lies… my two cousins among them.