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TomCADem

(17,387 posts)
Sun Jan 29, 2017, 06:12 PM Jan 2017

Kellyanne Conway: I Was Stopped Many Times After 9/11 Though I Dont Resemble Terrorists

I am sure this was followed by, "I am not being racist. This is just common sense."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kellyanne-conway-airport-stop-immigration_us_588e1114e4b017637794f37f?

WASHINGTON ― Kellyanne Conway, top advisor to President Donald Trump, suggested on Sunday that she understands what it’s like for immigrants and refugees to be detained at U.S. airports because her own travels were slowed down after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

“I was stopped many times ... after 9/11,” she said on “Fox News Sunday.” “I didn’t resemble, or share a name with, or be part of any kind of terrorist conspiracy, but this is what we do to keep a nation safe.”

Conway was defending Trump’s sweeping executive order on immigration, which halts refugee resettlement for 120 days, bans Syrian refugees from entering the U.S., and for 90 days blocks individuals from seven Muslim-majority countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Scores of immigrants and refugees were detained at U.S. airports over the weekend as protesters around the country demanded for them to be let go.

Late Saturday night, a federal judge in Brooklyn, New York, temporarily blocked parts of Trump’s immigration ban, ruling that sending refugees back to their home countries could cause “irreparable harm.”
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Kellyanne Conway: I Was Stopped Many Times After 9/11 Though I Dont Resemble Terrorists (Original Post) TomCADem Jan 2017 OP
Talk about a lame brain. Wellstone ruled Jan 2017 #1
In my opinion The_Voice_of_Reason Jan 2017 #2
Ohhh, kelly ann mercuryblues Jan 2017 #3
Gawd she is an IDIOT -- and heartless. Her callous comment that ripping families apart is okay anneboleyn Jan 2017 #8
Kellyanne is a true terrorist! putitinD Jan 2017 #4
Another day and another thousand lies from the tRump Misadministration. madinmaryland Jan 2017 #5
Tell me where you stopped just once so I will not accuse you of alternative facts. chelsea0011 Jan 2017 #6
oh yes, as a fellow middle aged white lady ive also been stopped many times. Happyhippychick Jan 2017 #7
Another "alternative fact." Beartracks Jan 2017 #9
+1 narnian60 Jan 2017 #15
Sure do act like one! democratisphere Jan 2017 #10
"Don't resemble terrorists"? How about this terrorist, Kellyann? Beartracks Jan 2017 #11
BIG problem with these responses....... MyOwnPeace Jan 2017 #12
Fashion Terrorist Donkees Jan 2017 #13
Yeah, and on what plane back to Dumbfuckistan were you put on, Ms. CONway? mwooldri Jan 2017 #14
I don't believe she was stopped...let alone many times Fresh_Start Jan 2017 #16
I have a white friend that drives me home sometimes after the buses stop... scscholar Jan 2017 #21
blue eyed blonde here...never been stopped Fresh_Start Jan 2017 #22
Bull mcar Jan 2017 #17
What was she stopped for? For being an a$$hole when she opened her mouth? LiberalFighter Jan 2017 #18
KellyAlt...at it again...nt Wounded Bear Jan 2017 #19
She lies. n/t phylny Jan 2017 #20

mercuryblues

(14,530 posts)
3. Ohhh, kelly ann
Sun Jan 29, 2017, 06:16 PM
Jan 2017

Getting stopped at a red light is not the same as not being allowed into a country based on your religion.

anneboleyn

(5,611 posts)
8. Gawd she is an IDIOT -- and heartless. Her callous comment that ripping families apart is okay
Sun Jan 29, 2017, 06:21 PM
Jan 2017

because it's just temporary (and Pres. Bannon oh I mean Trump just wants to protect us!!) revealed her black heart.

madinmaryland

(64,931 posts)
5. Another day and another thousand lies from the tRump Misadministration.
Sun Jan 29, 2017, 06:17 PM
Jan 2017

STFU Conway. You are a fucking liar.

Beartracks

(12,807 posts)
9. Another "alternative fact."
Sun Jan 29, 2017, 06:23 PM
Jan 2017

Edited to add: Getting stopped to open your laptop bag or getting wanded under the armpits with your shoes off isn't "being detained."

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MyOwnPeace

(16,925 posts)
12. BIG problem with these responses.......
Sun Jan 29, 2017, 06:27 PM
Jan 2017

Can't decide which is the BEST one - they're ALL so F**kin' good!!!!!!!!

mwooldri

(10,303 posts)
14. Yeah, and on what plane back to Dumbfuckistan were you put on, Ms. CONway?
Sun Jan 29, 2017, 06:33 PM
Jan 2017

Being stopped and questioned is one thing. As long as the questions make sense.

Turning away people who chose to come here and do good - turning away doctors, scientists, etc., who got visas, green cards... someone whose naturalization ceremony was two weeks away... that isn't the American thing to do... heck it isn't the HUMAN thing to do.

Isn't just Alternative Facts we got to worry about. She's in some fucking alternative reality.

These new politics have gotten to my civility. dropping the fucking f bomb. Ungh

Fresh_Start

(11,330 posts)
16. I don't believe she was stopped...let alone many times
Sun Jan 29, 2017, 06:37 PM
Jan 2017

Kellyanne Eva Braun Conway lies and lies and lies.

 

scscholar

(2,902 posts)
21. I have a white friend that drives me home sometimes after the buses stop...
Sun Jan 29, 2017, 07:32 PM
Jan 2017

since they stop running so damn early here in Seattle, and I think he's been stopped eight times that I can remember. Cops are now stopping nearly everyone at random.

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