Kellyanne Conway on her 'Me too' moment: 'Nobody cared'

[applegrove]

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/05/kellyanne-conway-me-too-sexual-harassment-281050?lo=ap_a1

By CRISTIANO LIMA at Politico

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Kellyanne Conway said Tuesday that she had her own “Me too” moment in which she decried sexual harassment during the 2016 presidential election but that “nobody cared” due to her political views.

Speaking at the POLITICO Women Rule Summit, the counselor to the president called out what she described as a double-standard in how the media perceives allegations of misconduct by men against liberal versus conservative women.

"Yes, of course I’ve had a ‘Me too’ moment, but nobody cared about that,” Conway said when asked by POLITICO’s Anna Palmer about her personal connection to the movement that has seen a wave of women speak out about acts of sexual impropriety by powerful men. “If we’re going to have an honest conversation everyone — you can’t pick and choose depending on somebody’s politics.”

According to Conway, a day after the release of the explosive “Access Hollywood” tape — in which then-candidate Donald Trump boasted about groping women during an off-camera conversation with host Billy Bush — she sought to denounce what she said were instances of sexual harassment by congressmen against her and other women during her time working as a Republican political operative in Washington, D.C. But she said she was ignored by the press.


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Kellyanne went out there to defend Trump after the Access Holiwood tape:

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Frank Luntz agrees with Bannon that Trump couldn’t have won without Conway’s defense of him after the Access Hollywood tape came out. “He owes her for standing up for him,” Luntz said. “I could not have done what she did.”

I told Luntz, who has mixed feelings about Trump, that this didn’t exactly sound like a compliment. But he insisted that it was. “I would not have survived it; I’m impressed that she did,” he said. “In every possible sense, she won. I do not believe he would be president without her.”

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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/kellyannes-alternative-universe/517821/

So there is that. If you defend a harasser then maybe not speak out. You just muddy an important message. Same with me. I could say "Metoo". But I was more seriously criminally stalked and harassed so I did not say Me too. This moment is about sexual harassment.

[janterry]

1. It's true, Kellyanne

I really don't care