Sarah Huckabee Sanders Version of Covfefe

[Cartmann99]

I wonder if we might finally be getting to Sarah's breaking point?

[formergothardite]

Did she just say "I can't go out there and answer questions about child concentration camps. I just can't. I can lie about a lot, but I can't deal with this. Send someone else."?

[Botkinetti]

Maybe Sarah  just can’t think of the words to defend the indefensible. If she can and then addresses the subject can she also admit that she has sold her soul to the trump administration.

[Howl]

I think Sarah is a true believer fanatic who believes that God defeated Hillary and the Democrats and installed Trump as His instrument to bring about changes she and the rest of the Huckabees desire: religious "freedom" (recognition of Christianity as the dominant state religion), an end to abortion, turn back the rights on LGBT rights, and you know the rest.  Truly, I can think of no other motivation for her to continue to get up there to obfuscate and lie on a daily basis.  It's a martyrdom for her;  I think she must view her position as a martyr in service of bringing about a Christian nation. Well, that and being a thirty-something Press Secretary for one of the *major* nations (um, not sure if we actually have ranking anymore) on earth.  Whichever, it's not an attractive look. Makes me long for the Spicy days. 

Edited June 19, 2018 by Howl

[Cartmann99]

Remember when Sarah insulted Jim Acosta? 

 

[fraurosena]

Now she knows what it feels like when you're gay and a baker doesn't want to bake your wedding cake out of his conviction. Not such a nice feeling, is it, Sarah, when you're on the receiving end?

Edited June 23, 2018 by fraurosena
I do know the difference between your and you're

[AmazonGrace]

That's a reporter she was particularly rude to.

[fraurosena]

 

Oh, I really hope Red Hen does this!

 

[CTRLZero]

4 hours ago, fraurosena said:

Now she knows what it feels like when you're gay and a baker doesn't want to bake your wedding cake out of his conviction. Not such a nice feeling, is it, Sarah,

This was exactly what I was thinking of when I read the report of her being denied service.  I do think this is a disturbing thing to happen, but it's a consequence of being a rude ol' liar who hangs out with the White House neo-Nazi crowd.  Just saying.

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"French fries have already been addressed multiple times, and frankly I find it insulting you're asking me about them again."

[Gobsmacked]

The thought of having to serve this woman and be polite is nauseating, I'm glad they asked her to leave. 

[GreyhoundFan]

Jennifer Rubin's take: "Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the lost art of shunning"

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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders — whose lies are piling up at a furious rate and whose defense of the child-separation policy prompted a reporter to exclaim, “Come on, Sarah, you’re a parent” — was reportedly asked to leave a restaurant in Virginia on Friday because she works for President Trump. In a tweet, she explained that “I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexington, VA to leave because I work for @POTUS and I politely left.” She then couldn’t help lying again: “I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so.” Anyone who has seen her sneer, insult and condescend to the press knows that’s not the case.

This episode follows one on Tuesday in which Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was heckled at a Mexican restaurant, a culinary choice as jarring as Melania Trump’s jacket given the administration’s deliberate cruelty exhibited toward Hispanic children and their families. The loud protesters who gathered prompted her to leave. In addition, anti-immigrant zealot Stephen Miller, who pushed as hard as anyone for snatching kids from their parents, was dining in a different Mexican restaurant last Sunday when, according to the New York Post,  a protester called out, “Hey look guys, whoever thought we’d be in a restaurant with a real-life fascist begging [for] money for new cages?”

Unsurprisingly, the restaurant confrontations became a source of debate on cable television. On CNN, Ana Navarro tartly observed, “You make choices in life. And there is a cost to being an accomplice to this cruel, deceitful administration.” So, are these reactions to Trump aides reassuring and appropriate acts of social ostracism that communicate to the cogs in a barbaric bureaucracy that they cannot escape the consequences of their actions? Alternatively, should we view these as a sign of our descent into incivility, evidence that we are so polarized we literally cannot stand to be in the same room as those with whom we disagree?

It depends on how you view the child-separation policy. If you think the decision to separate children from parents as a means of deterring  other asylum seekers is simply one more policy choice, like tax cuts or negotiations with North Korea, then, yes, screaming at political opponents is inappropriate. Such conduct is contrary to the democratic notion that we do not personally destroy our political opponents but, rather, respect differences and learn to fight and perhaps compromise on another day. If, however, you think the child-separation policy is in a different class — a human rights crime, an inhumane policy for which the public was primed by efforts to dehumanize a group of people (“animals,” “infest,” etc.) — then it is both natural and appropriate for decent human beings to shame and shun the practitioners of such a policy.

This exception to the rule of polite social action should be used sparingly (if for no other reason than we will never get through a restaurant meal without someone hollering at someone else). If a lawmaker, for example, who favors a harsh, ill-conceived immigration bill walks into a restaurant, I would not recommend raising a rumpus (though I would not invite that person to my home).

Listen, I get it. The notion of shunning or excluding or heckling can devolve into philosophical hair-splitting as to whether someone has engaged in normal public service or whether they’ve strayed outside the bounds of decent behavior. Each to his own method of expressing disdain and fury, I suppose.

Nevertheless, it is not altogether a bad thing to show those who think they’re exempt from personal responsibility that their actions bring scorn, exclusion and rejection. If you don’t want to provoke wrath, don’t continue to work for someone whose cruel and inhumane treatment of others rivals the internment of U.S. citizens and noncitizens of Japanese descent during World War II. And yes, I’d have hollered at then-California Attorney General Earl Warren, who pushed for the roundup of people of Japanese ancestry, even American citizens.

 

[candygirl200413]

So I read that she actually got her meal comp and that the owner wanted a vote with the staff to ask if they felt comfortable with her presence but of course she wouldn't be sharing that because who tells the truth anymore?!

It's become exhausting how repugs go off about decorum and yet never have any to show for. 

[fraurosena]

Even in her passive-aggressive righteousness she's violating regulations.

 

[fraurosena]

Word. 

(ps, the whole thread is worth reading)

[Howl]

On 6/18/2018 at 4:41 PM, Cartmann99 said:

I wonder if we might finally be getting to Sarah's breaking point?

Her entire professional life is a fetid stew of cognitive dissonance; swamp gasses have to be near the ignition point, but I think she'll just self immolate at some point. Whether that will be public spectacle or a private moment, who knows?  I hate her politics (as I have the politics of many past administrations), but I despise her as a human being for outright lying and dissembling for Trump and for enabling Trump to convince an immense number of Americans to think the MSM are dishonest lying sacks of shit.  

Although I hate the idea of it, I'm secretly thrilled (schadenfreude!) that she (and others) now know every time they step out the door, they risk public harassment and ridicule.  

I assumed she would have a Secret Service detail in public?  Does she?

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[GreyhoundFan]

Of course Franklin Graham got all butthurt about SHS. I love this response:

 

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Sanders confirms that military will guard concentration camps in the future.

 

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