Is Kellyanne's book worth reading?

I'll confess, for all that I despise KellyAnne sometimes for lots of things, I also admire her for her intelligence and appreciate the fact that she's good at standing on her feet and advocating for her client in the most difficult circumstances.

And I've also wondered about her relationship with her husband, who I also can identify with and respect and wondered how this marriage could possibly survive, after she chose one path and a "work husband" while George seemed to focus increasingly on attacking, if not get choices, the man she chose to support.

I honestly haven't bought her book yet, and don't know if I will, but I'll be damned if I don't think that KellyAnne and George don't seem like the most poignant example of the human drama surrounding this whole Trumpism thing.

My guess is, I'll wait for the movies, but if her book goes on sale on Kindle, I might not wait, and the same would go if George might decide to cash in.

This, it seems to me, is a potentially really significant story about two intelligent human beings and their relationship, caught between their own ambitions and moral values.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/06/18/kellyanne-conway-on-her-infamous-marriage.cnn

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Pikachu

I also admire her for her intelligence and appreciate the fact that she's good at standing on her feet and advocating for her client in the most difficult circumstances.

...you admire someone who is willing to lie for money no matter how obvious or absurd the lie?
Since when is dishonesty for profit an admirable quality?
Is this one of those "alternative facts" i've heard so much about?

MistyCee

@Pikachu I admire her because, she had the skills to sell "alternate facts" and other bullshit, while, at the same time, still keeping some sense of herself and being honest about the fact she was being dishonest.

Moreover, she's still selling herself, now as a victim, and doing it pretty well.

In the same way, I can admire Trump, Hitler, Putin, or even Dahmer for their skill sets without endorsing the goals to which they apply them.

Bill Barr would be another example of a Trump collaborator who presented skills and abilities I can respect, even though I don't agree with the uses he put them too.

But KA's life, IMO, and her realtionship with Trump, Conway, and in the long run, their spawn, seems really fascinating to me in terms of human relationships.

I'll admit, I'm perverse, and find the Kardashians painful and tedious while binge watching stuff like Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey, but extremes are interesting, and yeah, I've been caught slowing down to watch real train wrecks and accidents.

Pikachu

@MistyCee

lol she doesn't have the skills to sell alternative facts. No one bought it except the people who didn't need convincing.
What she has is the audacity to lie an obvious lie because someone is paying her money to pretend reality is other than it is.
I can't understand how you find that to be an admirable trait. I don't understand how an utter lack of scruples to achieve one's ends is something to be admired.
It think in most contexts that is known as sociopathy and is not usually something to be applauded.

Hang on...do you not admire the Kardashians?
What makes their hustle less admirable than Alternative Facts Conway?

MistyCee

@Pikachu I appreciate the skill it takes to advocate for someone you don't agree with more, I guess.

Pikachu

@MistyCee

I guess i don't respect someone just on the basis that they have a skill but rather how they use that skill.

MistyCee

@Pikachu I get it. But I think you can "give the devil his due" so to speak.

Pikachu

@MistyCee

I think there's a difference between recognizing that someone is good at something and respecting them for doing it.
I mean, Ted Bundy was really skilled at charming his victims. Manson was incredibly skilled at getting people to murder for him.
Do we give the devil his due there or do we just say fuck that guy for doing what he did?

Now of course Conway hasn't used her skills to murder anyone but the point is that just being good at something is not in itself worthy of respect, in my opinion.