{"id":34665,"date":"2017-05-16T11:19:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T18:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=34665"},"modified":"2017-05-16T11:21:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T18:21:19","slug":"kellyanne-conway-told-morning-joe-that-i-need-to-take-a-shower-after-defending-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=34665","title":{"rendered":"Kellyanne Conway Told Morning Joe That ‘I Need to Take a Shower’ After Defending Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s face it, political surrogates are a weaselly species who make a career of justifying the unjustifiable. For that reason we have to have some sympathy for Donald Trump’s surrogates. They have the dirtiest job in politics, and one that exceeds the bounds of any that came before it. Chief among those poor souls is Kellyanne Conway.<\/p>\n

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Conway served as Trump’s campaign manager last year and is currently Counselor to the President. She has had to dive feet first into the mud on more occasions than can be counted. Consequently, she often emerged with absurdities like “alternative facts,”<\/em> including the fictional Bowling Green Massacre. She was in a constant struggle to cover for Trump’s lies with lies of her own. It’s notable that she wasn’t always so supportive<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, she continues to get booked on cable news shows that apparently aren’t interested in honest discourse. However, there was an exception on Monday when the hosts of Morning Joe decided to reveal some some of the backstage banter that frequently is more illuminating than what gets broadcast. In a conversation about the truthiness of the Trump White House, Mika Brzezinski related an exchange she had with Conway:<\/p>\n

“This is a woman, by the way, who came on our show during the campaign and would shill for Trump in extensive fashion. And then she would get off the air. The camera would be turned off. The microphone would be taken off and she would say, \u2018Blech, I need to take a shower,\u2019 because she disliked her candidate so much.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The only thing surprising about Conway’s candid comments is that she she said them aloud. But she was saying what most of us were already thinking. Trying to defend a president who lies incessantly, insults his critics with vulgarities, and generally displays a level of intelligence that ranks lower than a banana slug, is going to leave a decent person somewhat nauseous. So in that context there might actually be some hope for Conway.<\/p>\n

Brzezinski’s co-host (and fiance), Joe Scarborough added that Conway had implied that her job as a Trump apologist was merely a “summer job”<\/em> which she would soon be over with. That appears not to be the case since she signed on full time with the administration. Therefore, we can expect to continue seeing her cleaning up after her floundering boss for the indeterminate future. Hopefully she has a sufficient supply of anti-bacterial soap to wash away the muck and grime.<\/p>\n

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