Sarah Huckabee Sanders Version of Covfefe

[apple1]

She leaves, having sold her soul. An irreversible action.

 

Looking for the phrase "out of central casting" to be used in describing her future replacement. And quite possibly, "Fox" in the employment history.

[GreyhoundFan]

"3 things Sarah Sanders will be remembered for"

Spoiler

If there is one thing you can say for Sarah Sanders’s soon-to-be-ending tenure as White House press secretary, it’s that she lasted longer than most. In a White House where staff cycle in and out at record speed and where she might have one of the most thankless jobs in the whole place — trying to speak for a president who lacks rhetorical consistency and has very little regard for facts — she stuck around for two years.

To do that, of course, she had to stop effectively serving as a traditional press secretary.

Here are three things she’ll be remembered for.

1. The end of the daily press briefing

The main job of the White House press secretary has for years been briefing reporters every day the president doesn’t hold any kind of media availability. This allows for reporters covering the White House to at least have a chance at someone responding on timely issues.

But Sanders has all but scrapped the briefing. After a slow but steady scaling back of the number of briefings in 2018, they have been virtually nonexistent in 2019. The last one she held was more than three months ago — March 11 — and it didn’t even last 15 minutes.

The lack of briefings is even more remarkable when you consider how little the White House press office performs the other main part of its traditional responsibilities: to work with reporters as they write their stories, and to beat back unhelpful ones. Often, this White House doesn’t even try to explain the administration’s actions when reporters come calling.

2. False statements — including in the Mueller report

Sanders’s name will forever be etched into history as the White House press secretary who admitted to investigators that she made false statements to the country. According to the Mueller report, she conceded to special counsel investigators that her statements after Trump’s firing of James B. Comey as FBI director were essentially made up.

The report says “she also recalled that her statement in a separate press interview that rank-and-file FBI agents had lost confidence in Comey was a comment she made ‘in the heat of the moment’ that was not founded on anything.”

Of course, this is hardly the only time we know she made something up or offered a false denial. She said Trump never encouraged or promoted violence, when he did; she said multiple news outlets had reported that Barack Obama ordered wiretaps of Trump using a shoddy foreign report; and she on multiple occasions denied allegations about Trump’s hush-money payments that turned out not to be true. Explaining the last one, she said, “We give the very best information that we have at the time.”

Okay, but you speak for the president. He needs to trust you enough to tell you the truth and have you spin it for him. Even as Sanders is supposedly a trusted adviser, she often didn’t seem to actually know how to speak for Trump.

3. The White House correspondents’ dinner shake-up

If Sanders ended the daily press briefing, she might have also played a role in ending the press corps dinner as we knew it: an annual comedic roasting of the current administration. After comedian Michelle Wolf took on Sanders in very personal terms in 2018 — alluding to her makeup and comparing her to a gruff softball coach — some reporters argued the bit went too far. White House critics, in turn, complained that the reporters were being too cozy with the White House.

The result was that the White House Correspondents’ Association scrapped the comedy portion of the dinner. With most of the jokes being told by left-leaning comedians, it was decided that it wasn’t a good look. And that might have been for the best.

I would have written:

1. Lying
2. A nasty, exasperated glare at anyone who doesn't genuflect
3. More lying

Edited June 14, 2019 by GreyhoundFan
edited for riffles

[Dandruff]

3 hours ago, apple1 said:

She leaves, having sold her soul. An irreversible action.

May they all meet again soon, in a much warmer climate.

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[JMarie]

1 hour ago, GreyhoundFan said:

 

(cue Tomi Lahren)

[Bethella]

On 6/14/2019 at 10:09 PM, JMarie said:

(cue Tomi Lahren)

I was wondering about Kimberly Guilfoyle, keep it all in the family.

[onekidanddone]

16 hours ago, Bethella said:

I was wondering about Kimberly Guilfoyle, keep it all in the family.

Or who ever Junior is cheating with on Kimmy. No way he can stay faithful 

[GreyhoundFan]

"‘She’s extremely serious’: Sarah Sanders eyes run for Arkansas governor"

Spoiler

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the outgoing White House press secretary, is seriously considering running for governor of Arkansas, according to three people who have spoken to her in recent days.

While Sanders and her associates have been quietly talking about the possibility for months, sometimes in jest, she has shown renewed interest in the prospect as she’s started contemplating her post-White House plans, the people said.

Sanders and her allies have started making calls to donors and Republican operatives in the state. Though neither Sanders nor her associates have directly sought support for a potential campaign, some who have spoken with them see the outreach as a sign that she’s weighing a run.

“She’s extremely serious,” said one of the people who has talked to her.

Some of Sanders’ allies countered that she’s just checking in with longtime friends ahead of her upcoming return to the state, and they insisted that she would be making these calls whether she wanted to run for governor or not. Sanders declined to comment for this article.

Sanders’ potential candidacy got a huge boost last week from her boss, President Donald Trump, who publicly encouraged her to run after privately prodding her to do so for months. In the process, Trump set off a wave of speculation in Washington and Little Rock about whether she’s serious about trying to move into the Governor’s Mansion.

“It has been the nonstop political conversation since it hit, and will probably be so now going forward,” said Bill Vickery, an Arkansas political consultant, adding, “That indicates what sort of big-time player she is in terms of the political landscape if indeed she follows through.”

Trump again publicly teased the prospect of Sanders' running for governor on Tuesday night during his re-election kickoff rally in Orlando, Fla.

“I have a feeling she’s going to be running for a certain gubernatorial position,” the president said before bringing Sanders onstage. It was her last trip with Trump as press secretary before she steps down at the end of the month.

If she runs, Sanders will be able to tap into the massive network her father, Mike Huckabee, built over a decade as governor. She’d also probably benefit from her sky-high name recognition, her connection to Trump, who remains popular in the state, and her relationship with another influential politician there: Republican Sen. John Boozman. Sanders managed Boozman’s 2010 Senate campaign.

“She would be formidable if she were to get into the race,” said Roby Brock, a longtime Arkansas political reporter. “She’s got the Huckabee political machine, the Boozman political machine and the Trump political machine.”

Speculation about Sanders is running rampant in Arkansas. Jon Gilmore, a political strategist for the state’s current governor, Asa Hutchinson, noted on Twitter last week that two websites that could serve a Sanders political run were registered on the same day last month, SarahforGovernor.com and SarahforArkansas.com.

People close to Sanders stressed that she was focused first on spending time with her husband and school-age children. They also noted that the next gubernatorial election in the state wasn’t until 2022, giving her plenty of time to make up her mind.

But Arkansas Republican operatives said she’d likely rake in more money than any of the other candidates expected to run — both from in-state supporters and national backers.

Though Sanders came under heavy criticism in Washington for sparring with reporters, doing away with regular press briefings and defending Trump at every turn, she and the president she serves are still popular in Arkansas. Trump trounced Hillary Clinton there in 2016, and polls conducted after the 2018 midterm elections showed that the vast majority of Arkansas Republican voters still supported the president. Trump’s job approval rating topped 50 percent in the state last year, roughly 10 points higher than his typical nationwide numbers.

A person who knows Sanders said she would probably be in demand once she moved back to Arkansas this summer, adding that she’d already had requests for speaking engagements. Several of her associates also wondered whether she’d write a book. The Arkansas Republican Party is planning to host a welcome reception in her honor this summer, the group’s chairman said in an interview.

“We are very pleased to have her coming back to Arkansas,” said Doyle Webb, chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party. “Arkansans believe she has done a superb job as press secretary for the president, and I wouldn’t want to speculate about what her political future is. I’m fairly certain that [Trump’s] support and any support she’s built on her own would be a considerable [asset].”

Sanders got her start in politics working for her father’s political campaigns, and later served as national political director for his 2008 presidential campaign and campaign manager for his 2016 campaign. She co-founded a consulting firm in Arkansas and was an adviser to both Tom Cotton’s 2014 Senate campaign and Tim Pawlenty’s 2012 presidential campaign. She later joined Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign as a senior adviser before entering the White House.

Her friends say Sanders has always had bigger ambitions — “Sarah can’t sit still for long,” one of them said. The possibility of Sanders’ running for office has been a frequent topic of conversation in the White House for more than a year. Rumors about her running for Senate to replace Cotton if he were tapped for a job in the administration were quickly replaced with gossip about her running for governor.

When Trump caught wind, he fixated on it, regularly ribbing her about it and encouraging her to run, White House officials said.

Operatives say they’re already noticing that Sanders’ allies are mobilizing behind her, even if it’s unclear whether Sanders is directing them.

“I got a phone call the other day from one of the people who worked on her dad’s presidential campaign as a fundraiser, so I think she’s probably in the very, very early stages of just touching base with … his network,” said an Arkansas Republican consultant, who, like others in this article, requested anonymity to speak freely about the private discussions.

Because the 2022 gubernatorial election is so far away, no candidates have formally announced yet. But at least three other people are said to be interested: Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin, Attorney General Leslie Rutledge and Arkansas Senate President Jim Hendren.

Some early skepticism about Sanders is already spreading in Arkansas Republican circles. Her critics are privately arguing that it’s unclear what her campaign message would be, and they say she needs to spend time reconnecting with issues that the state’s voters care about. They also note that being governor and serving constituents requires a very different skill set than being a spokesperson, adding that she's never held elected office.

“Her dad has been out of office for a long time here,” the Arkansas Republican consultant said. “He lost the state to Trump in the presidential campaign, so I don’t know that Sarah getting into the race is an automatic green light that she sort of walks right into the nomination. She’s going to be like all the other candidates and she’s going to have to get out here and run for it.”

Since she didn't speak to reporters when it was her actual job, it will be interesting to see if she does it as a candidate.

[Audrey2]

1 hour ago, GreyhoundFan said:

"‘She’s extremely serious’: Sarah Sanders eyes run for Arkansas governor"

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the outgoing White House press secretary, is seriously considering running for governor of Arkansas, according to three people who have spoken to her in recent days.

While Sanders and her associates have been quietly talking about the possibility for months, sometimes in jest, she has shown renewed interest in the prospect as she’s started contemplating her post-White House plans, the people said.

Sanders and her allies have started making calls to donors and Republican operatives in the state. Though neither Sanders nor her associates have directly sought support for a potential campaign, some who have spoken with them see the outreach as a sign that she’s weighing a run.

“She’s extremely serious,” said one of the people who has talked to her.

Some of Sanders’ allies countered that she’s just checking in with longtime friends ahead of her upcoming return to the state, and they insisted that she would be making these calls whether she wanted to run for governor or not. Sanders declined to comment for this article.

Sanders’ potential candidacy got a huge boost last week from her boss, President Donald Trump, who publicly encouraged her to run after privately prodding her to do so for months. In the process, Trump set off a wave of speculation in Washington and Little Rock about whether she’s serious about trying to move into the Governor’s Mansion.

“It has been the nonstop political conversation since it hit, and will probably be so now going forward,” said Bill Vickery, an Arkansas political consultant, adding, “That indicates what sort of big-time player she is in terms of the political landscape if indeed she follows through.”

Trump again publicly teased the prospect of Sanders' running for governor on Tuesday night during his re-election kickoff rally in Orlando, Fla.

“I have a feeling she’s going to be running for a certain gubernatorial position,” the president said before bringing Sanders onstage. It was her last trip with Trump as press secretary before she steps down at the end of the month.

If she runs, Sanders will be able to tap into the massive network her father, Mike Huckabee, built over a decade as governor. She’d also probably benefit from her sky-high name recognition, her connection to Trump, who remains popular in the state, and her relationship with another influential politician there: Republican Sen. John Boozman. Sanders managed Boozman’s 2010 Senate campaign.

“She would be formidable if she were to get into the race,” said Roby Brock, a longtime Arkansas political reporter. “She’s got the Huckabee political machine, the Boozman political machine and the Trump political machine.”

Speculation about Sanders is running rampant in Arkansas. Jon Gilmore, a political strategist for the state’s current governor, Asa Hutchinson, noted on Twitter last week that two websites that could serve a Sanders political run were registered on the same day last month, SarahforGovernor.com and SarahforArkansas.com.

People close to Sanders stressed that she was focused first on spending time with her husband and school-age children. They also noted that the next gubernatorial election in the state wasn’t until 2022, giving her plenty of time to make up her mind.

But Arkansas Republican operatives said she’d likely rake in more money than any of the other candidates expected to run — both from in-state supporters and national backers.

Though Sanders came under heavy criticism in Washington for sparring with reporters, doing away with regular press briefings and defending Trump at every turn, she and the president she serves are still popular in Arkansas. Trump trounced Hillary Clinton there in 2016, and polls conducted after the 2018 midterm elections showed that the vast majority of Arkansas Republican voters still supported the president. Trump’s job approval rating topped 50 percent in the state last year, roughly 10 points higher than his typical nationwide numbers.

A person who knows Sanders said she would probably be in demand once she moved back to Arkansas this summer, adding that she’d already had requests for speaking engagements. Several of her associates also wondered whether she’d write a book. The Arkansas Republican Party is planning to host a welcome reception in her honor this summer, the group’s chairman said in an interview.

“We are very pleased to have her coming back to Arkansas,” said Doyle Webb, chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party. “Arkansans believe she has done a superb job as press secretary for the president, and I wouldn’t want to speculate about what her political future is. I’m fairly certain that [Trump’s] support and any support she’s built on her own would be a considerable [asset].”

Sanders got her start in politics working for her father’s political campaigns, and later served as national political director for his 2008 presidential campaign and campaign manager for his 2016 campaign. She co-founded a consulting firm in Arkansas and was an adviser to both Tom Cotton’s 2014 Senate campaign and Tim Pawlenty’s 2012 presidential campaign. She later joined Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign as a senior adviser before entering the White House.

Her friends say Sanders has always had bigger ambitions — “Sarah can’t sit still for long,” one of them said. The possibility of Sanders’ running for office has been a frequent topic of conversation in the White House for more than a year. Rumors about her running for Senate to replace Cotton if he were tapped for a job in the administration were quickly replaced with gossip about her running for governor.

When Trump caught wind, he fixated on it, regularly ribbing her about it and encouraging her to run, White House officials said.

Operatives say they’re already noticing that Sanders’ allies are mobilizing behind her, even if it’s unclear whether Sanders is directing them.

“I got a phone call the other day from one of the people who worked on her dad’s presidential campaign as a fundraiser, so I think she’s probably in the very, very early stages of just touching base with … his network,” said an Arkansas Republican consultant, who, like others in this article, requested anonymity to speak freely about the private discussions.

Because the 2022 gubernatorial election is so far away, no candidates have formally announced yet. But at least three other people are said to be interested: Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin, Attorney General Leslie Rutledge and Arkansas Senate President Jim Hendren.

Some early skepticism about Sanders is already spreading in Arkansas Republican circles. Her critics are privately arguing that it’s unclear what her campaign message would be, and they say she needs to spend time reconnecting with issues that the state’s voters care about. They also note that being governor and serving constituents requires a very different skill set than being a spokesperson, adding that she's never held elected office.

“Her dad has been out of office for a long time here,” the Arkansas Republican consultant said. “He lost the state to Trump in the presidential campaign, so I don’t know that Sarah getting into the race is an automatic green light that she sort of walks right into the nomination. She’s going to be like all the other candidates and she’s going to have to get out here and run for it.”

Since she didn't speak to reporters when it was her actual job, it will be interesting to see if she does it as a candidate.

I'm all for equality in seeking public office and am proud of all of the women who ran in the midterms, but I'm scratching my head to figure out what makes SHS qualified to be governor, besides her famous Dad. She makes George W. Bush look like a rocket scientist!

[GreyhoundFan]

Apparently Sarah deigned to hang out with reporters for a short time: "Sarah Sanders: Farewell happy hour not the ‘appropriate venue’ to discuss honesty"

Spoiler

There were smiles, handshakes, hugs and photos as Sarah Sanders, the outgoing White House press secretary, hung out on Monday night with colleagues and journalists at a happy hour in a D.C. steakhouse. Amid all the bonhomie, the Erik Wemple Blog attempted to sneak in some business questions for the woman who pretty much ended the tradition of daily White House press briefings.

Here’s the back-and-forth:

ERIK WEMPLE BLOG: Sarah, hi — Erik Wemple with The Post. How’s it going?

SARAH SANDERS: Good, are you recording?

ERIK WEMPLE BLOG: Yes.

SANDERS: Okay.

ERIK WEMPLE BLOG: Are you helping out with choosing your successor?

SANDERS: Hey, Erik, I’m just here to visit. I’m not going to do [inaudible].

ERIK WEMPLE BLOG: Do you feel you were honest with the media?

SANDERS: Hey, Erik, I just don’t think this is the appropriate venue, but I appreciate you being here tonight.

With that, Sanders shifted to other folks huddled around her as she sipped a clear beverage from a wineglass. The event was well attended with journalists from Fox News, The Post, Reuters, Newsmax, Politico and others. The announcement that reporters would be meeting up for farewell drinks with Sanders touched off a storm of protest and snark on social media last week, premised on the idea that it was unseemly for journalists to meet socially with an official who had executed and enabled President Trump’s authoritarian attacks on the media. Plus, she lied or dissembled frequently from the lectern.

There was even some noise about happy-hour shaming the attendees:

The Erik Wemple Blog encountered no such camera crew outside of the event.

Anita Kumar, a Politico White House correspondent who helped put together the farewell drinks, told the Erik Wemple Blog, “I’m actually really happy with the turnout — it’s huge." She added: “And it taught me two things: One, we did the right thing, the thing that we always knew was right that I kind of second-guessed for a minute with all the criticism, which is, we’re meeting with the people that we cover. And it’s important — you have to talk to the people you cover. That’s it.”

As this blog wrote last week, journalists joining sources for drinks is a foundational element of beat reporting. Better to judge their published record than their choice of happy-hour attendees. In the meantime, the Erik Wemple Blog has asked Sanders if she can come up with a more “appropriate venue” for our questions.

 

[fraurosena]

Leave Faux, get a job in the administration. Leave the administration... 

 

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[Gobsmacked]

On 22 August 2019 at 4:11 PM, fraurosena said:

Leave Faux, get a job in the administration. Leave the administration... 

 

So she has found her Coven at last. Will she have to go blonde, get her teeth whitened and lose 2 stones though? 

No I'm not fat shaming. We have all seen Fox News. 

[JMarie]

What exactly will she been contributing???

[Audrey2]

I too was scratching my head over how Sarah fits in with the Fox news image, but then I've decided that they're trying to be more progressive and have some diversity. I think though that the famous dad trumps everything. 

[JMarie]

5 minutes ago, Audrey2 said:

I too was scratching my head over how Sarah fits in with the Fox news image, but then I've decided that they're trying to be more progressive and have some diversity. I think though that the famous dad trumps everything. 

Diversity only because she's a brunette. I wonder if she'll be doing any segments with her dad.

[Audrey2]

37 minutes ago, JMarie said:

Diversity only because she's a brunette. I wonder if she'll be doing any segments with her dad.

I will admit, that was for I was going and should have put diversity in quotations. I had typed another sentence about three times but couldn't get it sounding right.

[fraurosena]

8 hours ago, JMarie said:

What exactly will she been contributing???

Lies.

[thoughtful]

17 hours ago, fraurosena said:

On 8/23/2019 at 7:02 PM, JMarie said:

What exactly will she been contributing???

Lies.

Coals to Newcastle.

[GreyhoundFan]

"Sarah Sanders unveils a campaign-style website as she eyes a possible bid for governor of Arkansas"

Spoiler

Former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Monday unveiled a campaign-style website highlighting her close ties to President Trump, a moved that stoked speculation that she will make a 2022 bid for governor of Arkansas.

The site, which Sanders announced in a tweet, describes her as a “trusted confidante” of Trump and quotes him calling her “irreplaceable,” a “warrior” and “very special person with extraordinary talents.”

Visitors are invited to sign up for email updates on Sanders’s activities.

Trump has encouraged Sanders to make a Republican gubernatorial bid in her home state, saying she would be “fantastic.” Last month, Sanders’s father, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee (R), confirmed her interest during a radio interview in which he said she would start exploring a possible run following some down time.

Sanders prompted speculation about her plans last month by making an appearance at a retreat in Aspen, Colo., hosted by the Republican Governors Association.

Sanders served as Trump’s press secretary from July 2017 until late June, when she resigned.

Fox News announced last week that it had hired Sanders as a contributor. The conservative network has a long history of providing a platform for Republicans hoping to maintain their visibility before launching campaigns for office.

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) was reelected to a second term last year. He is barred by term limits from running again in 2022.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[GreyhoundFan]

If the mango moron is the most voracious reader she knows, that paints her circle of people she knows in a terrible light:

 

[Becky]

Comic books?  Fox and Friends transcripts, with the lines about him highlighted?  Copies of his kid's book to pass out?  Ballast? 

Sarah needs to broaden her circle of acquaintances - I would bet cash money my 11 year old grandson reads more in a day than Trump has read since his inauguration.