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Slate on Kellyanne "A Bulldozer and a Ballerina"
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/01/is_kellyanne_conway_a_true_believer_or_a_skillful_performer_of_true_belief.htmlKellyanne Conway uses brute force to push Trumps message, then slippery footwork to get away with it.
by Katy Waldman
In the 1990s, Kellyanne Conway counseled corporations on what women want to buy and how to sell it to them. Among her clients was Vaseline, makers of the Kellyanne Conway of products. Petroleum jelly adds shine to lips and soothes delicate skin. It is glossy, softening, and relaxing. It exists to reduce friction, to make rough things easy and pleasant, to glamorize surfaces. It is also very, very slippery.
Cartoons often depict the highest-ranking woman in the White House as a lion tamer, the only soul capable of controlling a beast who would otherwise destroy us all. Saturday Night Live evinces more sympathy: Kate McKinnon plays Kellyanne as a hapless careerist in the thrall of forces greater than herself, swept into a position she doesnt want and wracked with guilt at the damage shes unleashed. On her day off, she dances down a staircase to make pancakes for her handsome lawyer husband and four cute kids, only to be dragged back into the fray by Trumps itchy Twitter finger. When Steve Bannon enters the room, she recoils in horror. She is constantly burying her face in her hands.
The SNL Conway is a liberal fantasy, a vision of a secretly sane woman who cant abide the vile creature she so vigorously defends. (Also see: Ivanka Trump.) In reality, Conway is close with Bannonhe reportedly accepted the Trump campaign CEO position in August on the condition Conway be hired as welland they both share ties with conservative hedge fund manager and Breitbart investor Robert Mercer. On TV, her cloudless, near-psychotic self-confidence never wavers. Behold the beatific joy that suffuses her face when the hosts of The View ask her about Trumps fat-shaming of Miss Universe Alicia Machado. Im sure that on your Twitter feed right now you have viewers discussing my looks and my intelligence, she beams, apparently delighted at the thought. I never knew how ugly and stupid I was until Twitter!
Conway is no lion tamer, either. The president-elects senior counselor has not and will not moderate Donald Trumps views. Rather, she markets his lies, evasions, and personal attacks better than he ever has himself, transforming his latest fetid PR squash into a horse-drawn carriage equipped with diamond-encrusted wheels and coachmen tipping Make America Great Again chapeaus. Conway, who appears to believe in nothing, is a Meryl Streepcaliber performer of true belief. Her conviction is as unshakable as it is ephemeral, at once adamantine and erratic. Shes a feminist and a mouthpiece for anti-woman policy, a bulldozer and a ballerina. She is a strategist who believes successful campaigns are about values and vision, not just trying to make the other person look like he takes the wings off of butterflies and an operative who, pressed on Trumps ties to Putin, fires back, What has the current president done vis-à-vis Russia for the past eight years that makes you proud? She is a solid, a liquid, and an ignoble gas.
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Slate on Kellyanne "A Bulldozer and a Ballerina" (Original Post)
NRaleighLiberal
Jan 2017
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madaboutharry
(40,245 posts)1. In other words, she is amoral.
JI7
(89,283 posts)2. yeah, i hated the SNL phony version of Conway
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)3. republicans will let her nag on protestors & front twitter attacks. shes slate style antidemocracy