The Official 'Bowling Green Massacre' Memorial Thread
I figured it would be nice to have a thread to post our thoughts, prayers, and remembrances of the infamous Bowling Green Massacre. While healing and closure are healthy, it's far too easy for our modernized information-saturated liberal media-dominated societies to become complacent and forget these sorts of tragedies, especially when they never happened.
Kellyanne Conway, President Trump's former campaign manager and now an adviser in his administration, pushed back Friday against claims she defended the White House's refugee ban with an assertion that appears to be factually indefensible.Appearing on MSNBC's Hardball TV program on Thursday night, Conway referred to the "Bowling Green massacre" as part of her attempt to justify Trump's temporary restrictions on refugees and nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries.
"I bet it’s brand new information to people that President Obama had a six-month ban on the Iraqi refugee program after two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalized and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre," Conway said
"Most people don’t know that because it didn’t get covered."
However, early Friday Conway said she misspoke when she used the phrase "Bowling Green massacre." Really, she said in a tweet that links to an ABC News article, she meant say "Bowling Green terrorists."
In the tweet, Conway linked to a mainstream news item from 2013 despite complaining in her appearance on Hardball that the mainstream media didn't cover the episode.
Either way, it seems likely that the incident Conway refers to didn't get covered in the way she initially described it because there is an overwhelming consensus that there was no massacre at all. In fact, her use of the phrase "Bowling Green massacre" suggests she came down with another case of the 'alternative facts.'