Should TV networks stop booking Kellyanne Conway? | The Tylt

In a recent CNN appearance, Counselor to the President Conway blamed former President Obama for failing to regulate bump fire stocks like the ones used in the Las Vegas shooting. 

"It was President Obama's ATF, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, in 2010 that decided not to regulate this device...That should be part of the conversation and part of the facts that you put before your viewers."

Conway went on to criticized Democrats, including Clinton and Sanders, for politicizing the issue of gun control in the wake of a mass shooting. Conway also blamed CNN and the mainstream media for their Russia obsessions, which she attempted to tie into the Las Vegas massacre.

Watch the exchange here:

Kellyanne Conway: "The Second Amendment is a bedrock principle of our Constitution ... that should be protected" https://t.co/6HTYQA9nG3

— CNN (@CNN) October 5, 2017

The interview was immediately met with criticism, and many have called for television networks to stop booking Conway on their shows.

@ChrisCuomo Kellyanne Conway adds nothing but bold face lies to your program. She's not even part of the WH inner circle. STOP BOOKING HER.

— Tblack301 (@Tblack301) October 5, 2017

oh god, she’s back. please stop putting this woman on television.

— Alexa Shouneyia (@ashouneyia) October 5, 2017

CNN should stop asking this woman on their network. She is a proven liar, is not in any of the meetings and she's combative. Do better CNN!

— Nadia (@NadiaV05) October 5, 2017

But defenders of Conway say she is criticized so fiercely because she is good at her job. Jonah Goldberg argues in the National Review that Conway is treated unfairly by the mainstream media, and she is not the first communications official to lie on behalf of a politician.

Here’s a news flash for the news industry: Birds are gonna fly, fish are gonna swim, and politicians are gonna lie. The assumption that Conway is uniquely dishonest strikes me as not only preposterous but irrelevant. If she’s that dishonest, a good interviewer will make that clear to the viewer. Personally, I think Jake Tapper is more than capable of holding anyone’s feet to the fire.

And Conway has repeatedly defended herself and her duty to serve President Trump and get his message out into the world.

I serve at the pleasure of @POTUS. His message is my message. His goals are my goals. Uninformed chatter doesn't matter.

— Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) February 14, 2017