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Saturday, January 29, 2022
A 7-Figure Deal: Kellyanne Conway's Memoir
Intro: “Here’s The Deal” — due out on May 24 — will be an “open and vulnerable account” of Conway’s “journey all the way to the White House and beyond,” according to promotional material . . one reviewer posted this:
Here’s what the book jacket says : “Early on, Kellyanne learns that abandoning morals and ethics is the most direct path to success, and seizes on them to create a fact free name for herself.”
— Tough Crowd (@ToughRoom) January 27, 2022
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
Reference for more details: Use the link provided under the headline at the start
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Review
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. . . "
Mitt-In-The-Middle: Caught Between Kellyanne & The Donald 
The 2012 GOP's Candidate for President joined a whole cast of characters in the Cabinet Room as a distraction to days of hearings on possible impeachment of the President.
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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Looks like Mitt has been subjugated to getting used as a prop during and after many hours of House hearings on impeachment. The outspoken Utah Senator is - from all new appearances - no longer an outspoken dissident in Trump’s Republican Party.
Even back on 17 January 2019 a Bloomberg Opinion piece by Eli Lake captured his cowering character:
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:
Mitt Romney Fails His First Test on Russia
"John McCain was willing to vote against Trump, but Utah’s junior senator doesn’t seem quite ready. . . The GOP's 2012 presidential nominee memorably warned that Russia was America’s “No. 1 geopolitical foe.” That guy was on to something. I wonder what happened to him."
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Friday, January 28, 2022
CAUTION / THE KEYBOARD CAVALRY IS BACK. . . Time to Respect Responsible Statecraft
Intro: However this time around 20 years later it's not the same old re-play of tired re-treading of entrenched media strategies. It's a different world approaching Mutually Assured Destruction.
It is MAD Drumming-Up The Heat for War Hysteria
There are different voices from different media sources - for example this one, a think tank.
The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
NOTE: 
1 day ago · Here & Now's Scott Tong speaks with Anatol Lieven, senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
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Opinions|Ukraine-Russia crisis
The keyboard cavalry is back
The pundits who rallied for the war in Iraq are now giving advice on Ukraine.
By Andrew Mitrovica Al Jazeera columnist
Andrew Mitrovica is an Al Jazeera columnist based in Toronto
". . .Lately, they have been churning out their paint-by-number, testosterone-fuelled copy about how “good” (the West) has to confront “evil” – ie that “thug” in Moscow, Vladimir Putin, who is going to invade and enslave Ukraine.
The West, they say, has to call Putin’s bluff.
The West, they say, must not give in to Putin’s demands.
The West, they say, has to save Ukraine from Putin’s KGB-trained talons or else he will take a bigger bite out of Eastern Europe.
Back then (circa 2002), they penned columns and were invited on TV and radio to say that “good” (the West) had to confront “evil” – ie that “thug” in Baghdad, Saddam Hussein, who was going to unleash his secret store of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) on London.
They said there had to be war.
They said diplomacy meant appeasement.
They said the invasion of Iraq was legal.
They said it was a war to prevent the end of civilisation.
They said the war would be quick, cheap and easy.
They said the liberators would be greeted with garlands and kisses.
They said: sure, some Iraqis may be killed, but “democracy” is worth the sacrifice.
They said democracy would bloom where there was once only desert.
They said it all with a cocky, gunslinger’s swagger while they accused other writers, politicians, academics and demonstrators of being quislings in the naïve service of a mad tyrant with a hidden cache of chemical weapons.
They were wrong. Every word of every column, of every interview where they said all of the above and more again and again and again – with the certainty of their smug, defining hubris and obstinance – was wrong.
[...] You see, important journalists who spend a lot of time and space demanding that all sorts of important people with important jobs be held to account for the wrongs they commit, refuse to hold the keyboard cavalry and their enablers to the same standard. . .
> In the incestuous world of journalism, friendship tends to trump principle.
These “top flight” editors and their “award-winning” stable of white, male pundits are friends. They go to parties, weddings and funerals together where they drink, laugh and say how marvellous each other’s work is.
They win ephemeral awards – like a Pulitzer or a Peabody – together.
They get paid a lot of money to talk on the lucrative speaker-circuit where they, inevitably, cross paths.
They go on TV, radio, and, these days, podcasts together where they are still, incredibly, treated with deference and respect.
So, all of this translates into giving your good mates what amounts to the journalistic equivalent of a mulligan – even after they helped to gin up, defend and champion a war that has killed, maimed, disfigured, traumatised and made refugees of millions of human beings who should be alive, whole and at home.
[...] Anyway, it happened ages ago. It is time to move on. . .
So, every time a member of the keyboard cavalry shows up in your newspaper, on TV or the radio to talk tough about Putin and Ukraine, you should be reminded of their disqualifying history.
Some of them admit that they got everything wrong about the Iraq war. . .Some of them deny that they got everything wrong about the Iraq war.
Despite having gotten everything wrong about the Iraq war, we have chosen to give them time and space here to get it all wrong again, this time, about what may or may not happen in Ukraine. Govern yourselves accordingly since we won’t."
Reference: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/1/26/the-keyboard-cavalry-is-back
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.
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