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You’ll (Almost) Feel Bad For Kellyanne Conway After She’s Asked About Being The ‘Darkness’

The last time we checked in on Kellyanne Conway, the Counselor to the President was telling New York‘s Olivia Nuzzi that she would rather “slit my wrists, bleed out, put cement shoes on, [and] jump off the bridge” than have Sean Spicer’s job. It’s the most honest thing she’s ever said. So, what’s Conway up to today? She, along with Spicer and many others, was a featured speaker at “The President and the Press: The First Amendment in the First 100 Days,” a forum at Washington D.C.’s Newseum that explores “the Trump administration’s relationship with the press in the critical first months.”

As you might imagine, things got a little awkward, especially when the Hollywood Reporter‘s Michael Wolff brought up the Washington Post‘s new slogan, “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” “How personal do you take this?” he asked Conway. “This coverage of you, ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness,’ because I’m going to tell you, when they say, ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness,’ you’re the darkness.”

Well, Conway believes in three things: 1) love, 2) the Bowling Green Massacre, and 3) that she’s not the darkness. “I’m not the darkness,” she responded, after the crowd started to awkwardly laugh. “Didn’t you see the skit, ‘Walking on Sunshine’?” That’s the first time anyone on Trump’s team, especially the president himself, has said something not-negative about SNL.

Conway, who considers it “inappropriate to say who the president does or does not like,” also called certain journalist Twitter feeds a “hot mess” and noted that on television, “people literally say things that just aren’t true.”

There was more audience laughter.

Here’s the entire discussion.

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