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The ‘Kellyanne Conway Kneeling on the Oval Office Couch’ Controversy Is So Incredibly Dumb
The Fix ^ | February 28 at 8:30 | By Chris Cillizza

Posted on 02/28/2017 3:35:50 PM PST by drewh

he photo, taken Monday, shows White House counselor Kellyanne Conway perched on a couch in the Oval Office as President Trump stands behind his desk and representatives of a number of historically black colleges and universities gather around him.

Conway is kneeling on the couch. Other pictures of the same moment show she has her shoes on.

This has, of course, inflamed the (mostly liberal end of the) Internet.

THE HORROR.

SHE IS DISRESPECTING THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT.

HOW COULD SHE.

And so on and so forth.

This tempest in a teapot is, in a word, dumb. In two words: incredibly dumb.

[Kellyanne Conway kneeled on a couch. The Internet went insane.]

First of all, every party not in the White House likes to express shock and outrage at the way the other side is treating this hallowed job and office. Republicans were incensed when Bill Clinton and Barack Obama treated the Oval Office with slightly less formality than did Ronald Reagan, who, famously, always wore a suit coat in the Oval Office.

Obama puts his feet on the desk! Obama throws a football!

This is all par for the Internet outrage/partisan police.

It was dumb when Republicans leveled the charge of Obama and Clinton disrespecting the White House. It is equally dumb now.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


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To: Old Yeller

I now know what a pommel horse is.
thanks! I don’t think I will ever use one.


81 posted on 02/28/2017 4:35:56 PM PST by be-baw (still seeking)
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First Lady Betty Ford, barefoot!

(The hussey!)

82 posted on 02/28/2017 4:36:09 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: madison10

I’ll change the comparison.

Would you see IVANKA sitting like that in the Oval Office? Point made.


83 posted on 02/28/2017 4:37:13 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: drewh

84 posted on 02/28/2017 4:37:27 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: RitaOK
No one is talking about the President and the college presidents collegial meeting.

Think man, THINK. If it werent for this controversy no one would have even known that a bunch of black folk gathered in the Oval Office with big smiles on their faces. Now there is proof.

85 posted on 02/28/2017 4:38:59 PM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: madison10

It never occurred to me that an objection to haunches in the Oval could be turned now into a regional argument. Come to think about it, our culture was not entirely in the toilet during that era of “some sort of ‘southern lady’” and her grace, in public.


86 posted on 02/28/2017 4:39:04 PM PST by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming... infinitum.)
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To: be-baw

I can sit like that. ..and I’m 65 and female


87 posted on 02/28/2017 4:42:25 PM PST by goodnesswins (Say hello to President Trump)
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To: RitaOK
A lady sitting on her haunches, showing parted knees, in a room full of men is not professional, anywhere.

Yes, Kellyanne just doesn't have the class and decorum we were used to when Moochie Obama was in the White House.


88 posted on 02/28/2017 4:43:06 PM PST by Vlad The Inhaler ("Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory." --Miguel de Cervantes)
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To: Two Kids' Dad

89 posted on 02/28/2017 4:44:56 PM PST by drewh
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To: donna

LOL! Get over it. I think she looks great. You wouldn’t be jealous of her body would you?


90 posted on 02/28/2017 4:45:53 PM PST by southern rock
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To: RitaOK

Do you understand that you are being used by the left-wing media? That you are a stooge? The left knows that conservatives like you absolutely drooled over the fact that Regan didn’t take his jacket off in the oval office. Absolutely drooled over it. So what did they do? When they were in power, they did the opposite so they would look younger, cooler, hipper. Now that they are out of power they attack our side for the same nonsense knowing that so-called conservatives like you will side with them against your own side. Alindky tactics. You fall for it.


91 posted on 02/28/2017 4:49:54 PM PST by southern rock
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To: southern rock

Stop insulting us for having a different opinion than you. It’s allowed here.


92 posted on 02/28/2017 4:50:53 PM PST by donna ('God's standards, like it or not, are the basis for the laws that led to western civilization.)
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To: pnz1

That was the dress which looked close to Kellyanne’s.

The whole world knows that Trump met with rhe Presidents of Black Colleges. Everyone.


93 posted on 02/28/2017 4:52:19 PM PST by buffaloguy
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To: pnz1

That was the dress which looked close to Kellyanne’s.

The whole world knows that Trump met with rhe Presidents of Black Colleges. Everyone.


94 posted on 02/28/2017 4:52:23 PM PST by buffaloguy
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To: pnz1

That was the dress which looked close to Kellyanne’s.

The whole world knows that Trump met with rhe Presidents of Black Colleges. Everyone.


95 posted on 02/28/2017 4:52:24 PM PST by buffaloguy
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To: RitaOK

People like you make this entire website look foolish. I take it personally because I’m a longtime member and it embarrasses me.


96 posted on 02/28/2017 4:52:35 PM PST by southern rock
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To: goodnesswins

I’m 64 and male and I’m not sure I could have ever sat like that.

She’s 50. Maybe it’s a yoga thing. I just can’t imagine how that position could possibly be comfortable. You can do it. Just because you can, would you ever want to?


97 posted on 02/28/2017 4:52:35 PM PST by be-baw (still seeking)
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To: LouisianaJoanof Arc

You absolutely embarrass conservatives in front of the rest of the nation and you don’t even realize it.


98 posted on 02/28/2017 4:54:58 PM PST by southern rock
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To: drewh

No one in that photo seems to mind. Man she is a looker!


99 posted on 02/28/2017 4:56:06 PM PST by Tuxedo (We won.... damnit... we won. Now what? -- GOP 2016)
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To: Brilliant

This calls for a Special Prosecutor!


100 posted on 02/28/2017 4:56:15 PM PST by arthurus
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