Kellyanne Conway Flashcards

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About

Kellyanne Conway Flashcards refers to a series of photoshop exploitables based on an image of White House Senior Counsel Kellyanne Conway holding two pieces of white paper to argue for media hysteria over the Russiagate controversy in July 2017.

Origin

On July 12th, 2017, Kellyanne Conway appeared on Sean Hannity's Fox News program to discuss Donald Trump Jr.'s Email controversy. During the interview, she argued that the emails he tweeted, which revealed that he was informed of a Russian government plan to swing the 2016 presidential election in favor of Donald Trump, did not prove collusion with a foreign country. To make her point, she held up two white sheets of paper with the words "conclusion, collusion, illusion, delusion" on them (shown below).^[1]

That night, Twitter user @YasharAli^[2] shared the video from Fox News' twitter account with the caption "This just happened on Hannity….." The tweet (shown below, left) received more than 3,600 retweets and 7,100 likes. He then responded to his own tweet with "2. Didn't someone warn Kellyanne not to hold up white pieces of paper? (video in the tweet above)" The second tweet (shown below, right) received more than 400 retweets and 1,600 likes in 12 hours.

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Shortly after Fox posted the video, users on Twitter began photoshopping various images onto the flashcards (examples below). Twitter published a Moments page to compile the submissions.^[3]

Several news outlets covered the emerging meme as well as Kellyanne Conway's use of props, including Newsweek,^[4] Fortune,^[5] Esquire,^[6] USA Today,^[7] Elite Daily^[8] and more.