week in, you know, what was a blatant falsehood that came out of the administration but that could have real consequences for muslim-americans who are already being sort of targeted and looked at in a way that isn t very good. let s listen to kellyanne conway talking about this fictional bowling green massacre when she spoke with chris matthews. i bet there was very little coverage. i bet it s brand-new information to people that president obama had a six-month ban on the iraqi refugee program after two raukis came to this country, were radicaliz radicalized twr mastermind behind the bowling massacre. there was no it didn t get covered. she did correct it with a tweet where she meant to say bowling green terrorist and claimed also in that statement it didn t get covered, but in her tweet she linked to abc coverage of the arrest of these two iraqi citizens in bowling green. massacre isn t a word that kind of tumbles out of your mouth by mistake, i don t think. look, this is
to eradicate radical islam terrorism. how does that fit with the executive order? a big missed opportunity not following up on that alleged, made up bowling green massacre. instead moving on. that shows the challenge of both a live or in that case a taped interview with an administration official. misinformation is coming directly from the president s mouth. as the president, you say, for example, there are three million illegal aliens who voted and then you don t have the data to back it up. some people will say that s irresponsible for a president to say that. is there any validity? many people have said i m right. you have to have data backed up. this is birtherism all over again. he said millioany people agreed. that s not true. many have not supported the
sloppiness and why it matters. first, does the age of alternative facts demand an alternative interviewing style? the made up bowling green massacre has some flooding my e-mail box saying trump aides like kellyanne conway should not be on tv at all. she said she misspoke one word. watch the full clip here. see if you agree. i bet there was very little coverage. i bet it s brand new information to people that be obama had a six-month ban on the iraqi refugee program after two iraqis came here and radicalized and were the masterminds behind the bowling green massacre. i know that because it didn t get covered. the press didn t cover this because it didn t happen. what did chris matthews say next? let s talk about the major strategic of this administration overseas and here as well.
came to this country, were radicalized and twr master minds behind the bowling green massacre. let me no, because it didn t get covered. the bowling green massacre of course never happened. while it s easy to poke fun at kellyanne conway for what she later called an honest mistake, there s something darker at play here. the invention of a massacre in order to further demonize muslim immigrants, in this case iraqi refug refugees. joining me, our panel. okay. so, dean, you re here because we were texting about this when you wrote a piece about this sort of broad demonization of muslims, whether it s immigrants, whether it s refugees, or whether it s american muslims, quite frankly. this idea of inventing a ms. kerr. funny or dangerous? very dangerous. breitbart during the holiday season said there was another attack somewhere in norway. i looked in the local papers. it was not there. they re literally manufacturing lies about muslims a that
meets alternate universe. they are now ak live the creating their own parallel universe where there are refugee massacres of americans and the so-called liberal immediate kra covered it up. this is kind of the fantasy they live in. as you say, this is incredibly dangerous. if you re an iraqi american or muslim-american, you wake um and live in bowling green and you re told your community was part of a massacre? luckily this got debunked incredibly quickly but look at what happened in quebec last week. that was a homegrown anti-immigrant radical white male who decided he was going to take action into his own hands and kill muslims. this is insanely dangerous. again, this goes back to the white house correspondents dinner. we are not living in traditional times. we are at war with the press and they are trying to create their own violent reality. carol, this presents a real challenge for the media because it s one thing to ridicule things like the bowling green massacre, but they have