Kellyanne Conway Promotes Her Memoir And Everyone Makes The Same Damning Point
"Oooh. Taking a shot at fiction, I see," one Twitter critic wrote of the former Trump White House counselor.
NEWS: I’ve written a book - a memoir - that details my journey as only child of a single mom to presidential campaign manager and counselor. Join me inside the White House and my own house. Preorder HERE'S THE DEAL today! https://t.co/CBCIT4ORza pic.twitter.com/Bt0jtgOFFA
— Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) January 27, 2022
Critics, though, recalled Conway’s penchant for “alternative facts,” her downplaying of the COVID-19 pandemic, her infamous “Bowling Green massacre” comment and the many, many, many times she cynically tried to spin away the chaos that engulfed Trump’s presidency.
Hard pass; I'm not reading any fiction these days until our democracy is no longer threatened by the sociopath you enabled for four nightmarish years.
— Richard Signorelli (@richsignorelli) January 27, 2022
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The book joins an already crowded mini-genre of tell-alls by former Trump staffers. Many have been highly critical, full of closed-door anecdotes. Others have been positive or mixed.
Kellyanne Conway Confirms Post-White House Memoir, Promises 'One-of-a-Kind' Perspective on Trump
. . .Conway tells PEOPLE hers is "a chunky 600 pages, double the length of many books in the genre. I loved writing it.". . .Her publisher says the book will also delve into the 55-year-old biography as "a girl from working-class South Jersey raised in an all-female household who packed blueberries every summer for pennies a pint, became valedictorian of her Catholic high school, earned her law degree, returned to polling during the historic 1994 election cycle, and by twenty-eight had launched her own polling and consulting firm."
[...] "Long before I joined the Trump campaign and White House, I'd made a career out of calling things as I saw them, with no notes in front of me and no net beneath me. I brought that same approach to this book, which should engage, engross and entertain plenty of people," Conway said in the release announcing her book.
It is being published by Threshold Editions, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
"Leakers get great press," Conway said in 2018, responding to attacks by pointing at others in the administration as leaking. "And one day, ... I will have my say. So that will be very, very fascinating."
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"In the few short months since she entered President Donald Trump's inner circle, Kellyanne Conway has mastered the art of message-muddying. As Trump's campaign manager, Conway frequently appeared on news programs to spin something objectionable Trump said. She was uncommonly good at it, but over time, a pattern emerged: There was (perhaps by design) no message consistency between Conway and Trump. He would frequently contradict her, and she would have to mop up the mess. At this, she is incredibly adept — perhaps the best ever.
But in her expanded role in Trump's White House, Conway has run into some difficulties ...
Conway's twin messages seem to be: "Bring it on, I can take you" and "you're not playing fair." The deck is stacked against me and everyone watching knows it, she seems to say, but I'm ready to play anyway, because that's how right I am. It's an affect that makes her seem scrappy, put-upon, tolerant, even noble.
But Conway's gift for "subtracting from the viewer's understanding," as NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen calls it, involves more than optics and more than gender. It's speed, for one thing. She rarely pauses at the end of a sentence. It's digression. And it's range. She's able to package entire arguments — whole scripts — into short sentences. It's not just necessary but essential to slow down and examine some of her appearances to see just exactly what she's doing. . . "
Here's an image taken this article by Philip Rucker in yesterday afternoon's The Washington Post (online) with this caption
"Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), flanked by President Trump and counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway, speaks at a White House meeting on electronic cigarettes on Friday." (Photo Credit: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
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Even back on 17 January 2019 a Bloomberg Opinion piece by Eli Lake captured his cowering character:
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