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Trump aide Conway draws ire for kneeling on White House sofa
Yahoo News ^ | Feb. 28, 2017 | Maggy Donaldson

Posted on 02/28/2017 7:55:37 AM PST by Rennes Templar

Washington (AFP) - US President Donald Trump's senior adviser Kellyanne Conway has come under fire after a picture of her casually kneeling on a couch in the Oval Office was widely shared on social media.

In an image captured by an AFP photographer, Conway appears on the couch with her shoes on as Trump poses for a photo with leaders of historically black colleges and universities.

Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens was among those taking aim at Conway, suggesting that aides under previous administrations would have elicited even greater outcry.

"If Rice or Jarrett had sat like this in Oval Office, conservatives would have screamed themselves hoarse for weeks. Now we own trashy," he wrote, referring to previous presidential aides.

Trump's predecessor Barack Obama repeatedly took flak for photos in which he appeared to be relaxing.

Critics also chastised Obama for unbuttoning the previous Oval Office dress code that called for a suit jacket and a tie.

The image of Conway trended widely on social media, with several Twitter users berating her for what they described as a lack of respect in the Oval Office.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: couchgate; doublestandards; kellyanne; kellyanneconway; kellyanneovaloffice; kellyannephoto; obamaphotos
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To: Gaffer

Of course, the MSM are dweebs like Obama.


41 posted on 02/28/2017 8:07:14 AM PST by Rennes Templar (Morning in America Again, again.)
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To: Rennes Templar

No mention of the Clinton habits in the same room.


42 posted on 02/28/2017 8:07:21 AM PST by petitfour (Americans need to repent.)
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To: Rennes Templar

Yahoo news seems so drunk with male privillage they are now oppressing womens choice of posture while sitting. We can infer from this yahoo news hates all women and wants to return to the time they were stuck back at home both barefoot and pregnant...ok not really. They only hate conservative women


43 posted on 02/28/2017 8:07:31 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: COBOL2Java

Good because it gives excuse to re-post all these pix.

I don’t see anything wrong with Kellyanne’s behavior, although I have to admit it there had been a pic of Moochele roosting on the Oval furniture with her heavy hams in the air, I and everyone else on here would have been outraged /s


44 posted on 02/28/2017 8:08:07 AM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: Rennes Templar

Saw the pic, have always wondered why women sit on their feet?


45 posted on 02/28/2017 8:08:22 AM PST by refermech
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To: Rennes Templar

At least she wasn’t in a position like others have been in years past. Geeze, give us a break.


46 posted on 02/28/2017 8:08:32 AM PST by hsmomx3
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To: day10

—that was the first thing that came to my mind , too—


47 posted on 02/28/2017 8:08:50 AM PST by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: laplata
POS Obama used the Resolute desk as a foot rest and nothing was said.

Of course that's all right. He a social clod.

48 posted on 02/28/2017 8:08:51 AM PST by econjack
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To: Rennes Templar

What's wrong with kneeling in front of the couch in the Oval Office?

49 posted on 02/28/2017 8:08:52 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Rennes Templar

She was trying to take a picture from a particular angle, another fake story.


50 posted on 02/28/2017 8:09:46 AM PST by Bayan
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To: Rennes Templar
"If Rice or Jarrett had sat like this in Oval Office, conservatives would have screamed themselves hoarse for weeks....

And you'd have ignored it just like we are now.

I guess you haven't noticed what "political writers" call conservative, and what American's with no broadcast voice call conservatives are two different things.

51 posted on 02/28/2017 8:10:09 AM PST by papertyger (The semantics define how we think.)
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To: Rennes Templar

Considering what happened between President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office, NOW the Democrats are appalled. Unbelievable!


52 posted on 02/28/2017 8:10:18 AM PST by jokemoke
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To: Fhios
I thought she looked kinda hot.

Ditto

53 posted on 02/28/2017 8:10:48 AM PST by CodeJockey
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To: Rennes Templar

Seemed a really normal female way of sitting with her feet underneath her on a couch. Gotta remember, though, that the dems don’t have real women or real men. Just actors.


54 posted on 02/28/2017 8:11:04 AM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory.)
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To: Rennes Templar

They have no plan, no prescription for improvement of our lives, nor any semblance of any value added for our heirs. They are clueless and lashing out because their little psyches got damaged by the facts.


55 posted on 02/28/2017 8:11:30 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Rennes Templar

I wonder where all these wonks were when Monica was kneeling in the oval office.


56 posted on 02/28/2017 8:11:36 AM PST by pfflier
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To: generally
"How can you tell if she has her shoes on? I think it would be very uncomfortable to sit like that with shoes on."

You can't tell from the only picture that I've seen. Maybe someone who was there knows that she was wearing shoes. But, as you say, this is a tempest in a teapot, and all the pics of Obama with his feet on the furniture surely undermine any point the left might have been trying to make.
57 posted on 02/28/2017 8:13:00 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: generally

Really, the photographers probably did not want her white legs showing in the photo-op with the black caucus.


58 posted on 02/28/2017 8:14:34 AM PST by ptsal
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To: Rennes Templar

Another purpose of this trivial story is that it gets all the attention, taking the attention away from Trump’s meeting with the black delegation.


59 posted on 02/28/2017 8:15:55 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Rennes Templar

Kellyanne did a GREAT JOB making sure a photo of President Trump meeting with DOZENS of black academic leaders got much wider circulation than it would have otherwise...way to go, Mrs. Conway!


60 posted on 02/28/2017 8:16:02 AM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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