A sexist comment about White House counselor Kellyanne Conway made by a Democratic Congressman has been met with backlash from some unlikely places.
Conway came under fire for being on her knees on a couch in the Oval Office, with her bare feet touching the couch. Last week at the Washington Press Club Foundation’s congressional dinner, Democratic Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.) said, “But I really just want to know: What was going on there Because, you know, I won’t tell anybody. And you can just explain to me that circumstance, because she really looked kind of familiar in that position there. Don’t answer and I don’t want you to refer back to the ’90s.”
Richmond was responding to South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott (R), who had pointed to former President Bill Clinton’s affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky as a way to take attention off of Conway: “Has anyone seen the controversy around Kellyanne Conway and the couch in the Oval Office Come on, people. You remember the ’90s. That couch has had a whole lot of worse things. Come on now.”
