These are frightening times. In 2017, there’s no place in America that’s immune to a fabricated terrorist attack.
Taking a page from the Kellyanne Conway playbook, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer alluded to a deadly terror attack in Atlanta on Thursday — in three different interviews.
As CNN reports, various news outlets worked overtime to try clarifying exactly what terrorist attack Spicer was referring to.
There was a bombing in Atlanta 21 years ago… but that was masterminded by Eric Robert Rudolph, a radical right-wing terrorist from Florida.
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Spicer first mentioned Atlanta during ABC’s “This Week” on January 29 when trying to defend Trump’s proposed travel ban that isn’t a travel ban but you can call it a travel ban because it is a travel ban:
What do we say to the family who loses somebody over a terroristic (sic) — to whether it’s Atlanta or San Bernardino or the Boston bomber? Those people, each of whom had gone out to a country and then come back
The next day, Spicer made an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” and once again mentioned this not-existent Atlanta terror attack while defending the travel ban that isn’t a ban, etc.:
“There was a very short period of time in which we had something to execute that ensured that the people of the United States were safe. Everybody’s been protected. What happened if we didn’t act and somebody was killed? … Too many of these cases that have happened — whether you’re talking about San Bernardino, Atlanta … Boston … would you wait until you do? The answer is we act now to protect the future.”
The third occasion was a January 30 press briefing, when a reporter asked him why several countries linked to terrorism weren’t included on the travel ban list.
Related: WATCH: Kellyanne Conway finally starting to crack as CNN anchor corners her on live TV
“Right, and we’re reviewing the entire process over this period of time to make sure that we do this right. But I don’t think you have to look any further than the families of the Boston Marathon, in Atlanta, in San Bernardino to ask if we can go further.”
It was The Daily Beast that first linked the three Atlanta comments.
In an email to CNN, Atlanta police spokeswoman Elizabeth Espy said the department had no idea what attack Spicer might be referring to, nor from whose ass he may have pulled his facts.
“From what we can recall, the last known terrorist attack in the state was 1996 in which Eric Rudolph was implicated….
“We have no record of an Islamic attack in the City of Atlanta.
FBI Special Agent in Charge Steve LeValley apparently went deep into the stacks but came back empty-handed, saying there had never been an Islamist terrorist attack in Atlanta.
The last terror attack of any kind in Atlanta was in 1997, when a lesbian club was bombed by Rudolph, the aforementioned Florida-based right-wing terrorist.
In an apology that expertly manages to add insult to injury, Spicer said on Thursday that he actually meant to say Orlando.
He’d merely goofed up the name of the city and state where America’s deadliest mass shooting in America took place eight months ago, killing 49 people and wounding 53 others inside the gay nightclub Pulse.
Kangol
These liars are so not ready for prime time, just like their deranged boss, Drumpfster, who somehow slipped into the White House.
1EqualityUSA
I’ve got the Bowling Green Massacre Blues. Let me tell you. It goes something like this. My first word in the morning is “ow.” my second, “oh.” We have another 1,439 to go. Bursitis takes its leave, the hate seeds; he will sow. Crow, crow, trump-man, crow. Your distracting dust-devils, tales of woe. Grazing D.C., billygoats, while Putin pins tweedy coats. Crow, trump-man, crow.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
This one seems like *merely* staggering incompetence than actual perfidy
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
*rather than actual incompetence
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Queerty, please do something on this:
http://www.scottlively.net/2017/02/02/milo-yiannopoulos-and-the-rise-of-american-nazism/
Let’s sow some delicious dissension..not that it isn’t already inevitably, inexorably, fatally, forthcoming anyway. (Alliteration ahoy)
Xzamilloh
Scott Lively is a dangerous Christian fundamentalist homophobe who helped Uganda form some of the most draconian and regressive laws against homosexuality in Africa. Milo is a Jewish-born Catholic troll with a love of black d*ck who — if I am not mistaken — has not advocated for anyone to be killed or imprisoned for life.
Why are you trying to peddle this like it’s juicy? It’s not… it’s a dangerous Christian dominionist vs. a self-described dangerous f*ggot. I swear y’all need to put the brakes on, because now “nazi” is another buzzword being loosely thrown around. We have confirmed racists like Jeff Sessions as the Attorney General and Banner in Trump’s ear. Milo speaking at colleges is doing what exactly?
Juanjo
Scott Lively who once lived in Portland Oregon until after sponsoring a number of political attempts to discriminate against gay folks, he was photo’d on the Fruit Loop late one night talking to a young, underage hustler. He also published a book called the “Pink Swastika” which cherry picked facts form the history of the Nazi Party to argue that all the top Nazi’s were actually flaming homosexuals who apparently murdered Jews for sexual kicks. He is also one of the ones to push the idea of some secret gay cabal running things through some sort of alliance with the usual suspects – Satan, Jews, etc.
Chris
Their lying and spinning is all a cat’s paw to hide the evil stuff that is working its way through Congress and various legislatures.
1EqualityUSA
and Russia.
throwslikeagirl
This is my fun, new daily ritual: I wake up out here on the west coast and before I get out of bed I check a newspaper on my phone to see what piece of hilarity has already taken place on the east coast. It’s a guaranteed thing. SOMETHING completely absurd, and often frightening, has happened, connected to the White House, that will occupy blogs and office convos all day.
John S. Terry
I’m in California. I do the same thing!
1EqualityUSA
I learned the hard way not to read the New York Times before falling asleep.
NateOcean
Night terrors?
1EqualityUSA
Complex. I wanted to remember it. Long and involved. Architectural in the plot. Problem-solving and categorizing threats, social changes, and those who abuse power were held up for examination. My splitting headache made me say, “Ow.” then I said, “Oh.” Trump has 1,338 days to go. I blamed NYT.
Bob LaBlah
I think its time to start asking why are the NOT mentioning the massacre at Pulse. THAT really happened…….oh wait. THAT’S why they never mention it. It really did happen. And all of them were gay. Something like that would humanize us….silly me. I guess thats why they decided THAT didnt happen.