Settle down, everyone. Kellyanne Conway is here to tell you what #MeToo is and isn’t, and as in her role as self-appointed decider, she has decreed that Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh are not part of the #MeToo movement.
"Let's not conflate the larger Me Too movement with whatever did or did not happen in the summer of 1982, 36 years ago, that was not spoken about for the first time ever until 30 years later, that judge Brett Kavanaugh has completely denied," Conway said in an interview on CNN. [...]
Conway said she commends the women who have come forward in the past, but added that many #MeToo cases were the result of one woman coming forward, leading to "others [coming] forward and [saying] thank you so much for coming forward because now I don't feel alone in saying that person was a complete, he was just an awful person."
"That's what's happened in most of these cases," Conway continued. "I know it is not for lack of trying that people are trying to prove the same here, and have not. So we will have the testimony next week."
So because only one woman has come forward, it doesn’t count. Like, according to Conway, it only counts as #MeToo if there are multiple women saying “me too with that specific man.” And all the while Conway and Donald Trump and Senate Republicans and anonymous makers of death threats are making sure any woman who was thinking about speaking up and saying “Brett Kavanaugh didn’t just assault Christine Blasey Ford, he assaulted me, too” has strong reason to think twice, think three times, and stay quiet.
What are Conway’s qualifications as boss of the #MeToo movement, anyway? Here’s a woman who works for the groper-in-chief, a man whose accusers are in the double digits, one of whom is suing him for defamation, and she’s taking it on herself to say who does and doesn’t count. This, my friends, is chutzpah.
Let’s take back the Senate. Can you chip in $1 to Nevada’s Jacky Rosen and Texas’ Beto O’Rourke?