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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.

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1 posted on 02/28/2017 3:35:50 PM PST by drewh
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To: drewh

The Dems are deranged.


2 posted on 02/28/2017 3:37:48 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: drewh

Remember when that crappy Obama put his filthy shoes up on the desk in the oval office. Now he was a garbage person.


3 posted on 02/28/2017 3:37:50 PM PST by Silentgypsy (Mind your atomic bonds.)
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To: drewh

Fake News is more concerned about Kellyanne putting her knees on a sofa than Monica on her knees under the desk.


4 posted on 02/28/2017 3:38:18 PM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: drewh

Self-proclaimed richeous indignation.

AKA liberal Bull shit


5 posted on 02/28/2017 3:38:45 PM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: drewh

Bill Clinton; “Lookie who is under my desk ...” The moral midget hypocrites


6 posted on 02/28/2017 3:38:50 PM PST by rayincolorado ("Those who forget the past, are condemned to repeat it ...")
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To: drewh

Dummycrat presidents have sexually abused interns in the Oval Office and the lamestream media refused to criticise.

Keep on trucking Kellyanne.,you’re doing a wonderful Job


7 posted on 02/28/2017 3:39:24 PM PST by WashingtonFire (President Trump - it's like having your dad as President !)
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To: drewh

I think this controversy is helping Trump.


8 posted on 02/28/2017 3:39:28 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: drewh
Ummm... memories... does Kellyanne's kneeling on the couch show anywhere as much disrespect as Obama putting his feet up on the desk in the Oval Office, with the soles towards the camera, a major Muslim insult?


9 posted on 02/28/2017 3:39:31 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: drewh
Fantastic Kellyanne. Really liked it.
10 posted on 02/28/2017 3:39:49 PM PST by Logical me
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To: drewh

Truth is she shouldn’t be putting her feet on anyone’s couch much less the Oval Office. Another dumb move by her.

That being said it’s not the end of the world.

But dang! Use your head!


11 posted on 02/28/2017 3:41:03 PM PST by DainBramage
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To: drewh
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama treated the Oval Office with slightly less formality...

um...Bill Clinton getting a lewinsky in the oval office is "slightly less"?
12 posted on 02/28/2017 3:44:01 PM PST by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: rayincolorado
deal with it librards!


13 posted on 02/28/2017 3:44:07 PM PST by drewh
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To: drewh

Of course it’s dumb, that’s all the liberals have at this point - dumb.


14 posted on 02/28/2017 3:44:11 PM PST by BoomerBill (Keep America beautiful - deport a liberal.)
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To: drewh

I don’t understand how anyone can sit on a couch with her legs folded under like that. I can’t imagine how it would be comfortable. What is she, some kind of contortionist?


15 posted on 02/28/2017 3:44:44 PM PST by be-baw (still seeking)
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To: drewh

My liberal son is getting sick of all the stupid issues.

He’s getting to the point that he hates the Democrats more. He knows they lie and over-react.


16 posted on 02/28/2017 3:45:07 PM PST by luckystarmom
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To: drewh
HILARIOUS: Conservative Artist Uses PhotoShop To Make Fun Of Leftists Freaking Out About Kellyanne Conway

More at link

17 posted on 02/28/2017 3:46:05 PM PST by wtd
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Reporter: "There's a meeting of important people on an important matter at the White House today."

Editor: "Quick! Get over there and see if anybody puts their feet on the furniture or doesn't use a coaster! I want names!"

18 posted on 02/28/2017 3:46:11 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: drewh

Maybe she has roids.


19 posted on 02/28/2017 3:46:23 PM PST by jetson
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To: LS

The elite libs couldn’t stand to see Trump with the heads of the historically black colleges. They needed something to complain about.


20 posted on 02/28/2017 3:46:37 PM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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