Sarah Sanders’s Red Hen moment shows mob, media mentality
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s booting from a Virginia restaurant is just a symptom of a much wider illness of left-wing intolerance. It’s part of a growing pattern of intimidation and mob scenes against Republican officials. Grass-roots activists share in the blame, of course, but the largest single accelerant is the mainstream media.
The rinse and repeat cycle of anti-Trump outrage blared on nearly every news network, magazine and newspaper has fomented an increasingly brazen brand of radical ideas turning into radical action.
Last week was a turning point. And certainly not in a good way for anyone — the administration, the media, Republicans or Democrats.
The headlines and Twitter feeds have become one recycled (and often artificial) tempest outrage after another. Biased anchors and editorial rooms create a bellows effect of turning isolated incidents or policies of years prior into white-hot cauldrons of outrage. The over-the-top kabuki-theater-type “coverage” of family separations at the border acts more as undisguised activism than objective reporting. If House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) handed a check to a TV anchor on set, it would be less subtle.
Every new affront ratchets up the already-tense leftist base and riles up Republican RINOs. Except the fury doesn’t match the underlying issues. The Trump border policy, coupled with enforcement of provisions dating back to George W. Bush, has been willfully extrapolated to extremes by the people who should be refereeing political debate. Instead, we have, for example, a deceptive (to put it charitably) TIME Magazine cover and mental gymnastics to hide President Obama’s own family separations and child cages , all funneling red meat (or a non-cruelty tofu substitute) to the Resistance base.
This miscarriage of responsibility has — and will have — real-world ramifications.
The maelstrom reached a crescendo Thursday due to Melania Trump ’s jacket. One newspaper headline declared her an “ Agent of Coat Chaos .” Her sin? Wearing an off-the-shelf jacket with the words “I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?” while boarding a plane to Texas.
Her trip to comfort children was overshadowed by her jacket. Her jacket.
She didn’t even wear the article of clothing while meeting with weeping children or with government officials. She was snapped wearing it while boarding a plane. Many on the left rightly dismissed criticism of Michelle Obama ’s wardrobe — and they should stand up for this first lady’s agency to wear what she wants, when she wants to.
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" It’s part of a growing pattern of intimidation and mob scenes against Republican officials. Grass-roots activists share in the blame, of course, but the largest single accelerant is the mainstream media.
If we look at all the Trump officials who have been harassed over the past week it is clear that all of it has been well orchestrated. This was part of a plan and I believe Maxine Waters was a player. Speaking of Waters, it seems that Speaker Ryan is only asking her to apologize. Now why do you suppose the Speaker won't seek censure in her case?
"Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) urged Rep. Maxine Waters on Tuesday to apologize for urging her constituents to harass and publicly confront members of President Donald Trump’s administration."
"Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) introduced a measure Monday to censure Waters on the House floor. Although Ryan called for Waters to apologize, he ignored Biggs' censure proposal.
"Individuals have the right to debate their differences civilly, without fear of retribution. Unfortunately, Maxine Waters' comments condone public violence and encourage actions that jeopardize the safety and security of government officials and the American people," Biggs said in a statement Monday.
The problem is that the lack of civility has become a staple of both the right and the left. It was no more appropriate for Sarah Sanders to be asked to leave the restaurant because of who she worked for than for a baker not to bake a cake for a couple because of who they love. Both are part of the politics of the extreme.
See 6.4 for a lesson in misguided civility.
Sorry. "Mob Mentality" in America was spawned by 'Birtherism and Lock Her Up."
Conservatism has no memory, honor or soul.
If America had backbone every time the Nazis, White Nationalists and Ku Kluxers showed their faces patriotic 'mobs' would pound them into the asphalt.
Nah, mob mentality in America existed long before then. It's tribalism at it's most base level.
Wow how old are you?
I remember all the snowflakes before we called them snowflakes crying about the President Bush election.
I'm pretty sure if you listen hard enough you can still catch one sniveling about it.
Bush was not a traitor. Trump is.
I agree. Speaking of which this is on point.......much more at the Twitter link:
"Never again," is more than a slogan.
No Sunshine, it's more like wash, rinse, then your hair immediately gets full of grimy dirt again, over and over. Trump is so outrageously horrible all the time, it's impossible to process properly.
the media never washes, they are just constantly dirty
Modern day jacobins.
Just for you Norman.
Right wing mob justice and "civility". The right wing isn't mobbing this establishment for the freedom of this restaurant to do business as they choose, they attack because they didn't like the action. This is the "incivility" of the right the same way the "tiki torch" nazi marches and the death of Heather Heyer should be brought to mind.
1. Restaurant owner asks employees who are uncomfortable with Sanders considering her extreme stance against LGBT issues and her lying to Americans for Trump, the employees voted and Sanders lost.
2. The owner politely approaches Sanders, takes her aside and informs of the situation and decision, they gave her free comped meal of appetizers & drinks and Sanders left.
3. Sanders used her WH account to send out a negative message as a dog whistle to the base.
4. The GOP is "outraged", the base follows suit with actual attacks on the restaurant and ignorantly go after any restaurant anywhere with that name, even attacked a Canadian establishment. The vitriol from the right is astounding.
5. The owner stepped down because of the negative controversy and she really shouldn't have had to.
I think if the right wing wants to use "morals" and religious beliefs to deny service over cakes, over flowers, and over pharmacists dispensing medicine, the quit your nonsensical outrage when someone who has different beliefs acts on their own version of morals.
Sarah Sanders says she was asked to leave restaurant because she works for Trump
Yes .. agreed, two way street ... and now the party of (D) cannot use their "nonsensical outrage when someone who has different beliefs acts on their own version of morals."
Time for all to live their own convictions?
The bottom line, it seems, is the the left wants to be able to do or say anything they want, but not allow the same to be done to them. They seem to want everyone to sit down, shit up and listen to them, no talking back allowed. Sounds like boot camp.....too bad life doesn't work like that.....
Isn't that exactly what bigoted Sarah just did? She's publicly praised the homophobic baker and supports what he did against gays, but now she's whining that she was denied service not because she's white, or female, or a Southern Baptist, or presumably straight, but because she's a lying asshole who works for a very corrupt, greedy and inhumane regime.
Sounds like Sarah is a hypocrite as well as a whiny bigot.
Reading through seeds and comments like this shows how clownish right wing commentary really is.
On Newstalkers, we are supposed to be "nice" to people who make ridiculous clownish comments. Maybe Newstalkers will be the oasis of "civility" while the rest of the country "gets real".
here you can say the stupidest, most ignorant comment on earth and you are protected as a valuable member of the "community". It is absurd, but that is what TPTB wants.
Been working for you since Day 1. Those who live in Glass Houses shouldn't throw stones (Skirting in the CoC)
Been working for you since Day 1
How is it that Spikegary has directed personal insults to me dozens of times and he has never been suspended? It is very curious.
Yep: