honorentheos wrote:MeDotOrg wrote:I disagree with what what you say sir, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" doesn't say you have to feed Sarah Sanders. This is about disagreeing with what you say, every day after day.
She walked into a business seeking to do commerce. The business is quoted as claiming they would not serve her because she worked for the President. Maybe they said something else, but as far as what is reported that seems very much like discrimination based on affiliation. It's anti-democratic. And, yeah, I disagree that it is justified. It's bad for the direction of the nation, and worse still it demonstrates a lack of underlying values beyond affiliation.
Perhaps it was put to her that the reason she was asked to leave was that she works for the President, but the reality is because she
chooses to be the face of the administration that she experiences the consequences.
She is now down to the level of saying, "I only know what I am told to say".
When a reporter asked Sanders to address her claim from last August that President Donald Trump did not dictate his son Donald Trump Jr.’s statement on a controversial Trump Tower meeting—which contradicts information from a leaked letter to Russia probe special counsel Robert Mueller—Sanders refused to answer about matters “dealing with the outside counsel.”
"I think you all know I'm an honest person who works extremely hard to provide you with accurate information at all times," Sanders said during her daily press briefing.
I say again: Donald Trump is demonstrably the biggest liar to hold the Presidency. The word
demonstrably is intentional. Part of of is that as media gets more digital, it is easier to cross-check a President's statements, but Trump is a moving fountain of mistruths. Look at what he has said in the past week about the border crisis: That is is the law, that he hates the law, that it is the Democrats' fault, that Congress must pass legislation to fix it, but that the legislation must include funding for the border wall. In addition he told reporters the problem could not be fixed by executive order.
After then signing the executive order he had said would not fix the problem, the President said this would "make a lot of people happy". He then said that the Democrats "manufactured phony stories of sadness and grief".
That's what her boss did in one week. This is the man she goes out and defends day after day. This is not an Stevenson supporter refusing to serve someone with an Eisenhower button. Sarah Huckabee Sanders defends the crimes of her boss day after day on television. To me this is more like someone having the guts to refuse service to Joseph McCarthy. Yes, he was a Republican, but standing up to him had nothing to do with party affiliation.
It strikes me that what America looks like is a distant mirror of what America would have looked like if Joseph McCarthy had wrested control of the party from the Eisenhower Republicans. Trump is out tonight making his usual highbrow arguments against Wacky Jacky and Pocahontas. Roy Cohn would have been proud.
Trump has actually said that he is more presidential than anyone other than Lincoln. In his Inaugural, Lincoln said "“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
Trump has always appealed to the worst angels of our nature. He uses lies and hyperbole to whip up fear of the other. Donald Trump wanted to shake up the norms, the established order. This is the President who fantasizes about NFL team owners firing their players for kneeling because it is too upsetting, but will use the suffering of forced family separations at the border as a bargaining chip to get Democrats to fund the border wall he said would be paid for by Mexico. The mouthpiece for a President that gives billions in tax breaks to the rich, slashes social services to the poor, and demonstrably tells more lies than there are days in his Presidency, has staffed agencies with incompetent and corrupt cronies, is willing to undermine the public trust in agencies charged with investigating his potential crimes, and that is before we get to Stormy Daniels, Karen McDougal, Summer Zervos et al (whoever is in the Cohen files).
This is not Ronald Reagan or a Bush, Dole, Kemp, McCain or Romney. This is Donald Trump. He is different. The people who serve him are different. Those people don't think so, because they live inside a bubble. Puncturing that bubble is not necessarily bad.