We're only just into February and we've already hit the most batshit story of the year.
Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser to Donald Trump, gave an interview where she talked about the justification for the President's travel ban on immigrants and refugees from seven predominantly Muslim countries.
In the interview, Conway cites two Iraqi refugees who came to the US, became radicalised and were "the masterminds behind the Bowling Green Massacre".
Now you might not have heard of the Bowling Green Massacre because, according to Conway, "most people don't know that because it didn't get covered".
You also might not have heard of the Bowling Green Massacre because it never happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-w16cyQ8wQ
It is true that two Iraqi men were arrested in Bowling Green, Kentucky and are currently serving life sentences for terrorism offences, but there was no massacre nor were they ever accused of plotting one.
Conway is best known for coining the term 'alternative facts' - in other words 'legitimising absolute bollocks' - and this appears to be a prime example of it: inventing a completely fictitious set of circumstances to justify a course of action.
It wasn't long before people clicked that this was a massive wipe of shit, and obviously the first thing people did was pile in on Conway and her version of events.
https://twitter.com/PAPPADEMAS/status/827357694633795586
https://twitter.com/justinshanes/status/827402179963080705
https://twitter.com/davidschneider/status/827433457957629952
https://twitter.com/SamZComedy/status/827388932622913536
https://twitter.com/ozzy4873/status/827384658417508352
https://twitter.com/tonyposnanski/status/827378896488108037
https://twitter.com/VitoConte02/status/827376552878944256
https://twitter.com/downhiller1976/status/827370452687351808
RIP everyone who didn't die in the Bowling Green Massacre. Your spirits will live on. Until you actually die.
