{"id":180693,"date":"2017-01-31T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T23:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/01\/31\/yeah-she-does-look-like-a-terrorist\/"},"modified":"2017-01-31T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T23:48:00","slug":"yeah-she-does-look-like-a-terrorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/01\/31\/yeah-she-does-look-like-a-terrorist\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, She Does Look Like a Terrorist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Spokesthug Kellyanne Conway thinks that <a href=\"http:\/\/neweconomicperspectives.org\/2017\/01\/trumps-flack-says-doesnt-resemble-terrorists-except-one.html\">its silly for her to go not to breeze through airport checkpoints because she doesn&#8217;t look like a terrorist<\/a>.  (Translation: White people are never terrorists)<\/p>\n<p>Not so much:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Maybe it is because I am part Irish, or because I am flying to Dublin this week to present at the Trinity Economic Forum, but Kellyanne Conway\u2019s claim that though she does not \u201cresemble\u201d any \u201cterrorist,\u201d she has to go through security checks at airports, stunned me.  Given her name and looks, that struck me as a bizarre statement.  Surely, she must \u201cresemble\u201d some of the IRA terrorists.  It took me four minutes of research to find an Irish terrorist that she resembles.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">This is a photo of Conway.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/ARf6KFc.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/ARf6KFc.png\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Now, we all know what she means when she says that she does not  \u201cresemble\u201d a terrorist \u2013 she does not look like her origins were the  Middle East.&nbsp; She looks like her family origins were in Northern  Europe.&nbsp; (Yes, I know, we all share African origins.)&nbsp; Her family name  was \u201cFitzpatrick\u201d prior to her marriage.&nbsp; Her dad was Irish and her mom  Italian.&nbsp; She went to Catholic schools.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">It is no surprise, therefore, that she closely resembles terrorists.&nbsp; Conway (nee Fitzpatrick), meet the famous Irish terrorist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/opinion\/analysis\/a-bright-studious-girl-who-led-the-double-life-of-an-ira-terrorist-29023291.html\">Dolours Price<\/a> who grew up attending Catholic schools in Belfast \u2013 and helped blow up Old Bailey.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Ep6Yi7B.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Ep6Yi7B.png\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I dunno \u2026\u2026\u2026 I think that Ms. Conway <b>does<\/b> resemble a bone fide terrorist, and a particularly nasty one (she also facilitated an IRA hit on a mother of 10) at that.<\/p>\n<p>Note to self:  Perhaps Going to Catholic School should put people on a DHS watch list.  (Not really)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Spokesthug Kellyanne Conway thinks that its silly for her to go not to breeze through airport checkpoints because she doesn&#8217;t look like a terrorist. (Translation: White people are never terrorists) Not so much: Maybe it is because I am part Irish, or because I am flying to Dublin this week to present at the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[506,364,374,398,373],"class_list":["post-180693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-evil","tag-politics","tag-racism","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}