Kellyanne 'white trash' Conway

[BoSoxGal]

Of course, and I never claimed it was. I watched Morning Joe and don't recall it being mentioned, have not seen any other TV coverage today as I'm working. I saw it early AM on Daily Mail website.

I've certainly seen FAR more coverage of ACA repeal attempts, Trump's fascinating insight that healthcare is a complex subject, AND the Yemen raid fallout. All of those things were discussed on MSNBC this morning.

I only occasionally watch CNN, when A. Cooper is on.

[rubato]

Why did representatives of the historically black colleges even agree to this exercise in window-dressing? And with that blonde white trash skank in the room?


yrs,
rubato

[Joe Guy]

Now that I know Kellyanne had her shoes on, it's worse than I thought but I'll get over it.

In the meantime, this qualifies as nothing more than an 'Entertainment Tonight' story. Is that still on? The problem is that's what our current news media has become. They only report on whatever is causing a stir on Twitter.

[Big RR]

Blonde? Trump's hair is more gray or white.

[Econoline]

When I'm confronted with a question of possible breach of etiquette in the Oval Office, I always think to myself, "What would Bill Clinton do?" It helps put things into perspective.

Hmmm...that makes me wonder if Kellyanne was wearing any underwear?

[oldr_n_wsr]

I hope so!??!!?

[Guinevere]

Like everything else with this administration, it was all just a shell game:

https://medium.com/@HipHopPrez/my-state ... .3rba3elgb

On Friday I learned that I was selected to give remarks today for the meeting at the White House with members of the Trump administration, most notably Secretary Betsy DeVos. We learned this weekend that there would be closing remarks by Vice President Pence, but the goal was for officials from a number of Federal agencies (about 5 were there including OMB) and Secretary DeVos to hear about HBCUs.
That all blew up when the decision was made to take the presidents to the Oval Office to see the President. I’m still processing that entire experience. But needless to say that threw the day off and there was very little listening to HBCU presidents today- we were only given about 2 minutes each, and that was cut to one minute, so only about 7 of maybe 15 or so speakers were given an opportunity today.
So this is what I was going to say today in my 2 minutes. The UNCF will also share my comments. But it is important that I share in advance of Tuesday’s speech by the President because I am discussing specific funding that benefits ALL college students, but especially those at HBCUs.
Statement by Walter M. Kimbrough, President, Dillard University
In his Oscars acceptance speech last night, Mahershala Ali celebrated American’s belief in the transformative power of education when he first thanked his teachers and professors. Historically black colleges and universities are living testimonies of this power, the central force in educating people inextricably linked to the promise of America.
Fifty years ago a philosophy emerged suggesting education was no longer a public good, but a private one. Since then we’ve seen Federal and State divestment in education, making the idea of education as the path to the American dream more of a hallucination for the poor and disenfranchised.
There is no doubt who is left to hallucinate.
In the past decade the wealth gap between whites and blacks has gone from seven to thirteen fold. The median net worth of a single parent white family is twice that of the two parent black family. Black students graduate with 31% more college debt than their white peers.
The Pell Grant should be the equalizer. It serves 36% of all students, 62% of Black students, and over 70% attending HBCUs. But the education as a private good philosophy has severely limited its impact on the neediest families.
Therefore we must:
• Raise the maximum Pell Grant, which has hit a 40-year low in purchasing power relative to college costs and index it permanently to account for inflation
• Restore year-round Pell Grants that enable students to finish college faster and with less debt;
• And remove time limits to benefit growing numbers of part time students who may require more than 12 semesters to graduate.

[BoSoxGal]

Thanks for sharing that!

[Big RR]

Yes thanks; in a short statement the writer makes a lot of sense.

But it will fall on deaf ears with the current administration.

[Lord Jim]

Hmmm...that makes me wonder if Kellyanne was wearing any underwear?

At least there don't appear to be any stains on her dress....

[RayThom]

Does Conway's childish behavior really matter? She merely personifies the basic mood of the WH staff. Much ado about nothing.

I have such low expectations for Lord Dampnut, and his court of jesters and sycophants, that nothing surprises me. Just wait, I'm sure something worse will happen tonight during Drumpf first address to Congress. He never fails to disappoints.

Three years, 11 months... and counting.

[Gob]

[liberty]

When I'm confronted with a question of possible breach of etiquette in the Oval Office, I always think to myself, "What would Bill Clinton do?" It helps put things into perspective.

[oldr_n_wsr]

Therefore we must:
• Raise the maximum Pell Grant, which has hit a 40-year low in purchasing power relative to college costs and index it permanently to account for inflation
• Restore year-round Pell Grants that enable students to finish college faster and with less debt;
• And remove time limits to benefit growing numbers of part time students who may require more than 12 semesters to graduate.

Not much to disagree with.
I would add that something needs to be done to reign in those college costs

A lot of the sites I googles won't open for me (I googled "college costs vs inflation") but from the headline of one

According to Gordon Wadsworth, author of The College Trap, “…if the cost of college tuition was $10,000 in 1986, it would now cost the same student over $21,500 if education had increased as much as the average inflation rate but instead education is $59,800 or over 2 ½ times the inflation rate.”

So even indexing the grant to inflation it would still be far behind.

[Burning Petard]

Fake news? I used to love the special bulletins on very early SNL "This just in from Spain--Franco is still dead." For game-changing fake news within the lifetime of most of us here, go to The Gulf of Tonkin incident also known as the USS Maddox incident, in August of 1964.

snailgate

[dales]

go to The Gulf of Tonkin incident also known as the USS Maddox incident, in August of 1964.

snailgate

Yes, they even had "fake news" back then.

[Lord Jim]

Yes, they even had "fake news" back then.

It's older than that:



(It was later found that a faulty boiler was the most likely cause of the explosion)

William Randolph Hearst was one of the original pioneers of "fake news"...

[Scooter]

Well that is one definition of fake news; the other is something inconsequential being reported as news.

Nope, sorry, that definition allows someone to take control of the narrative by deeming anything it doesn't like being reported as "fake" by rationalizing why it should be thought of as inconsequential.

"Hillary Clinton ran a human trafficking ring out of a pizzeria" is fake news. This may be trivial, but it is not in the same universe as fake news.

[MajGenl.Meade]

"Hillary Clinton ran a human trafficking ring out of a pizzeria" is fake news. This may be trivial, but it is not in the same universe as fake news.

OMG! I just read that on Facebook somewhere! But apparently she never went into a pizzeria.

[Big RR]

Well that is one definition of fake news; the other is something inconsequential being reported as news.

Nope, sorry, that definition allows someone to take control of the narrative by deeming anything it doesn't like being reported as "fake" by rationalizing why it should be thought of as inconsequential.

"Hillary Clinton ran a human trafficking ring out of a pizzeria" is fake news. This may be trivial, but it is not in the same universe as fake news.

Who said it was? Butt that doesn't make this Conway (Conway puts her feet on the couch) any less fake news (at least as I define it). Hillary has 12 items in a 10 item checkout line would also be a similar fake news, even though might be true and even though it is nowhere in the league as a sex trafficking story. But as I said, reporting something asinine and trivial as news is also fake news, unless you choose to define "news" as pretty much anything someone reports or if you choose to get your "news" from TMZ or the National Enquirer.