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Your head may explode trying to follow the tortured logic of Propaganda Minister Kellyanne Conway. Mediaite sets up the clips below: Following reports that CNN had refused to accept White House counselor Kellyanne Conway as an interview guest this past Sunday due to concerns over her credibility, Conway showed up on The Lead this afternoon to speak with anchor Jake …

The Hollywood Reporter recaps: Late Night’s Seth Meyers presented a “Closer Look” about Trump’s travel ban and recent comments about the press. Meyers said the rollout of Trump’s ban “is so bad, in fact, that Trump’s advisers are now making up fake tragedies to try and justify it,” referring to Conway’s “Bowling Green Massacre.” “Now, if you were embarrassed you …

Politico reports: The White House released on Monday a list of 78 terrorist attacks that the Trump administration claim were not sufficiently covered by the nation’s press. The list, however, included some mass killings that were covered well enough to make their locales into symbols of anger and grief: Orlando and San Bernardino, Nice and Paris in France, and Brussels …

The Hill reports: White House press secretary Sean Spicer demanded an apology from The New York Times for publishing an article containing eye-opening details about President Trump’s earliest days in office, even disputing whether the president owns a bathrobe. “That report was so riddled with inaccuracies and lies that they owe the president an apology,” Spicer told reporters aboard Air …

From the Hollywood Reporter: CNN took to Twitter Monday morning to confirm a report that the cable news network turned down a Sunday interview offer with Kellyanne Conway. After a New York Times Sunday story reported the network has “serious questions about her credibility” and declined to have her on as a TV guest, the senior adviser to President Donald …

Cosmopolitan reports: Roundly condemned and mocked for the comment (there has never been a terrorist massacre in Bowling Green), Conway tweeted Friday that she meant to say “Bowling Green terrorists” and had made an “honest mistake.” But in an interview with Cosmopolitan.com conducted by phone days earlier, on Sunday, Jan. 29, Conway used the same phrasing, claiming that President Barack …

Fox News reports: Kellyanne Conway admits she made a mistake in talking about a Kentucky massacre that never took place. But that’s not all she has to say about it. In an interview airing Sunday on “Media Buzz,” President Trump’s counselor called some of her critics “haters” and said she corrected her error as soon as she learned about it. …

Politico reports: The video clips that the U.S. military said were evidence of the success of last week’s raid on an Al Qaeda compound in Yemen have one major problem, the Pentagon acknowledged Friday: They have been on the internet for a decade. The U.S. Central Command, which posted the video clips, pulled them from the Pentagon’s video website after …

CNN reports: Top Donald Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway said Thursday that the media is encouraging a mob mentality and mob violence with what she described as “disrespectful” coverage of the President and his top spokespeople. “The coverage never changed, it never progressed, it never matured,” Conway, who serves as counselor to the President, told radio host Sean Hannity. “It never …

The Washington Post reports: Kellyanne Conway has taken “alternative facts” to a new level. During a Thursday interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, the counselor to the president defended President Trump’s travel ban related to seven majority-Muslim countries. At one point, Conway made a reference to two Iraqi refugees whom she described as the masterminds behind “the Bowling Green Massacre.” “Most …

Minister Of Propaganda Kellyanne Conway battled George Stephanopoulos this morning over Trump’s tweeted claim that Lindsey Graham and John McCain want to start World War III. As she always does, Conway bobbed and weaved and shouted “SQUIRREL!” at every opportunity. Here’s a recap: “Kellyanne, these are Republican Senators!” Stephanopoulos shot back. Again, she invoked the beginning of Trump Tweets instead …

The Hill reports: President Trump’s chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, is dipping into Breitbart News to staff the White House. The hires give Bannon more loyalists in Trump’s West Wing, and also raise Breitbart’s profile and power. It comes as the conservative news organization, led by Bannon until last year, seeks to expand its influence in Washington and the world. One …

Via Right Wing Watch: Today at the Heritage Foundation, Newt Gingrich delivered a speech on “Trumpism” in which he lavished praise on President-elect Donald Trump and promoted his new ebook on Trump’s campaign while skewering the pontificating elites of the establishment, of which the former speaker of the House is certainly not a member. “Donald Trump is the grizzly bear …

Via Vox: Russia’s official state-run news channel, Russia-1, has always been a bit brazen about cheerleading Russian President Vladimir Putin as a national action hero. But Russia-1 is taking that to a new level this week. The channel is broadcasting ads for Putin’s forthcoming press conference, on the disastrous fall of the ruble, that look very little like sober news …

Americablog‘s John Aravosis has unearthed a repulsive anti-gay clip out of Russia. He writes: A newly-discovered anti-gay video making the rounds in Russia (see the video below with subtitles) claims that gays adopt children so that they’ll have a readily available source of kids to rape. Even more troubling, the video bases its adoption-child-rape assertion on a debunked faux-scientific “study” …