Defending Trump, White House adviser Kellyanne Conway asks a reporter: 'What's your ethnicity?'
Source: NBC News
Andrew Feinberg, a White House reporter for Breakfast Media, a website about politics and technology, asked Conway, "If the president was not telling these four congresswomen to return to their supposed countries of origin, to which countries was he referring?"
Conway paused and then asked him, "What's your ethnicity?"
"Why is that relevant?" Feinberg replied.
"Because I'm asking a question. My ancestors are from Ireland and Italy," Conway shot back.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-adviser-kellyanne-conway-asks-reporter-what-s-your-ethnicity-n1030406
The Liberal Lion
(1,414 posts)These people truly don't give a crap about how racist they are in public.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)CatMor
(6,212 posts)Raven
(13,893 posts)she's a bit younger that I am so she probably wasn't alive to see the "Irish need not apply" signs in store windows. She probably doesn't remember when Italians were called "dirty wops".
tblue37
(65,408 posts)The Wizard
(12,545 posts)HuskyOffset
(889 posts)...are outraged by this, as it tarnishes their image. Shame!
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,944 posts)From the South Philly fuck youse.
BumRushDaShow
(129,103 posts)True Fluffian.
(or "fuckyouseguys" as they might also say here in Philly)
oldsoftie
(12,555 posts)turbinetree
(24,703 posts)onetexan
(13,043 posts)Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)JI7
(89,252 posts)MoonchildCA
(1,301 posts)PSPS
(13,603 posts)onetexan
(13,043 posts)so not sure if i'd compare the Conways to these 2. I happen to like Carville alot and i think with him & Matalin at least they have their dignity. Kelly Ann Conway does not. Not sure how i feel about George.
obamanut2012
(26,080 posts)Like someone else said, it's an act they do, it's performance art.
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)Pretty obvious now.
Fly on wall at the Conway dinner tables getting high on my wish list.
When she meets KARMA, I just expect a loud *POOF*!
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)Reichsminister of Propaganda
muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)but just devolved into throwing out a cloud of squid ink to cover the racism.
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)Klaus's daughter.
sandensea
(21,639 posts)Which in fact is what that ghoul would do if she could.
Andrew Feinberg handled it great.
keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)Kellyanne, is Donald's background Swedish as his family falsely claimed?
Politicub
(12,165 posts)But thats just where she keeps her head.
SWBTATTReg
(22,143 posts)riversedge
(70,242 posts)her lately but she is short tempered to say the least. --plus not making an sense!!
Nitram
(22,822 posts)beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)Claim the same?.. if she doesn't like it, get the fuck out