GOP response: Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders slams President Biden for ‘woke fantasies’
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is returning to the national stage Tuesday night with a rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address that accuses the president of focusing on “woke fantasies.”
chicagotribune.com'The View' Says 'How Stupid Is She?' For Sarah Huckabee Sanders' Abortion Comments, Calls It 'Dumbest Statement Of The Day'
Monday's episode of The View deemed Sarah Huckabee Sanders's abortion comments as "the dumbest statement of the day." As reported by Decider, She made remarks after the Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade.
news.yahoo.comMike Pompeo to headline SC GOP’s annual fundraiser, raising presidential suspicions
Mike Pompeo will headline the South Carolina Republican Party’s annual fundraiser this month, once again elevating suspicions the former U.S. secretary of state and CIA director is carving out a path to run for president in 2024.
news.yahoo.comThe other problem with Marjorie Taylor Greene's Nazi analogy
The decision of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to retain a mask mandate for representatives who haven't been vaccinated against COVID-19 is just like the Holocaust, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) claimed in a television appearance Friday. "We can look back in a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star, and they were definitely treated like second-class citizens — so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany," Greene said, "and this is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about." It's not, and Greene has been widely upbraided for her remarks, including by several fellow Republicans. Many of these condemnations rightly focused on how Greene's words trivialize unthinkable suffering: "Comparing wearing masks to the abuse of the Holocaust is a not-so-subtle diminution of the horrors experienced by millions," said former Virginia Rep. Denver Riggleman (R) in a representative critique. That's certainly true, but there's another problem with the Nazi analogy, too: Once you analogize your enemy to Adolf Hitler, you have all but invited violence. "There's nowhere to go from Hitler," observes journalist Matt Taibbi in Hate Inc., his book on political media. "It's a rhetorical dead end. Argument is over at that point. If you go there, you're now absolving your audiences of all moral restraint, because who wouldn't kill Hitler?" As Taibbi's brief accounting of recent use of this metaphor reiterates, Greene is far from alone in her indefensible jump to the Hitler comparison. In his days as a Fox News pundit in the early 2000s, Glenn Beck was particularly bad about this. Turning his fire leftward, Taibbi argues that, a decade later, the center-left media's "conventional wisdom was that [former President Donald] Trump was Hitler" and all his voters were "racist, white nationalist traitor-Nazis." From either side, the Nazi analogy is a "sweeping, debate-ending dictum," Taibbi concludes, and in "the fight against Hitler, everything is permitted." I suppose one might fairly analogize a present-day genocide to the Holocaust, but in that case, an analogy hardly seems necessary. In domestic politics, however, the Nazi metaphor should be used with extreme parsimony, if at all. That's particularly true in a time like ours, when our norms against political violence are already under strain. More stories from theweek.com5 riotously funny cartoons about GOP resistance to the January 6 CommissionWhy Emily Wilder got fired and Chris Cuomo didn'tA 60-second COVID-19 breathalyzer test is provisionally approved in Singapore
news.yahoo.comSarah Huckabee Sanders to announce run for governor of Arkansas
Sarah Huckabee Sanders is running for governor of Arkansas in the 2022 election, CBS News has confirmed. Sanders, the daughter of former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, became a household name while working as part of the Trump White House communications team. She initially served as deputy White House press secretary before taking over as press secretary after Sean Spicer resigned. Sanders, one of original Trump White House staffers, called working for Mr. Trump the "opportunity of a lifetime." Sanders also likened her time as press secretary as being caught in between a "raging battle between the president and the media."
cbsnews.comSarah Huckabee Sanders announces run for governor of Arkansas
Sarah Huckabee Sanders is running for governor of Arkansas in the 2022 election, CBS News has confirmed. So today I announce my candidacy for governor of Arkansas," Sanders said. Sanders, the daughter of former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, became a household name while working as part of the Trump White House communications team. She initially served as deputy White House press secretary before taking over as press secretary after Sean Spicer resigned. Sanders, one of original Trump White House staffers, called working for Mr. Trump the "opportunity of a lifetime."
cbsnews.comEx-Trump spokeswoman Sanders running for Arkansas governor
FILE - In this Monday, March 11, 2019, file photo, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders speaks during a news briefing at the White House, in Washington. Former White House spokeswoman Sanders is running for Arkansas governor, a source told The Associated Press, late Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021. – Sarah Sanders, Donald Trump's former chief spokeswoman, announced she's running for Arkansas governor at a time other Republicans are distancing themselves from the former president facing an impeachment charge that he incited the deadly siege at the U.S. Capitol. Arkansas Republican Gov. During Sanders’ nearly two-year tenure at the White House, daily televised briefings led by the press secretary ended after Sanders repeatedly sparred with reporters who aggressively questioned her.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders to announce run for governor of Arkansas
Sarah Huckabee Sanders is running for governor of Arkansas in the 2022 election, CBS News has confirmed. Sanders, the daughter of former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, became a household name while working as part of the Trump White House communications team. She initially served as deputy White House press secretary before taking over as press secretary after Sean Spicer resigned. Sanders, one of original Trump White House staffers, called working for Mr. Trump the "opportunity of a lifetime." Sanders also likened her time as press secretary as being caught in between a "raging battle between the president and the media."
cbsnews.comTiffany Trump reveals engagement on father's last full day as president
President Trump's youngest daughter, Tiffany, announced her engagement to boyfriend Michael Boulos on Tuesday on social media. "It has been an honor to celebrate many milestones, historic occasions and create memories with my family here at the White House, none more special than my engagement to my amazing fiancé Michael!" Tiffany, Mr. Trump's only child with his second wife, actress Marla Maples, posted a photo with her fiancé standing at the White House. Former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders commented on the post, "Congratulations!!! That image is tagged as being taken at The White House and shows the pair standing in front of a Christmas tree.
cbsnews.comMaddow beneficiary of scramble for attention by authors
NEW YORK – It's high season for books that pick apart Donald Trump's presidency, and Rachel Maddow is a big beneficiary. With less than two months before the election, authors are elbowing each other for space on the best-seller lists. Conservative authors have also sought attention for new books during the political season. That was the case with Schmidt's book. Maddow gave more attention to Schmidt's discussion about why Trump's personal and business dealings with Russia have not been investigated.
Trump dodges question on QAnon conspiracy theory
WASHINGTON President Donald Trump on Friday twice ignored a question about whether he supports QAnon, a convoluted, right-wing, pro-Trump conspiracy theory. A reporter asked the president about the theory at a White House briefing Friday after Trump tweeted his congratulations to a QAnon-supporting candidate. So absolutely, I did congratulate her, Trump said, sidestepping the question and ignoring a follow-up before moving on to another reporter. Trump has retweeted QAnon-promoting accounts, and shirts and hats with QAnon symbols and slogans are not uncommon at his rallies. Green still faces a Democrat in November, but the GOP primary was considered the real contest in a district Trump won handily in 2016.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders apologizes to Joe Biden after mocking his comments about stuttering
Former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders faced pushback Thursday night after mocking former Vice President Joe Biden's comments at the Democratic debate about stuttering. "A little kid, he says 'I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I can't, I-I-I can't talk, w-w-what do I do?'' Biden responded to Sanders' tweet soon after, writing, "I've worked my whole life to overcome a stutter. https://t.co/0kd0UJr9Rs Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) December 20, 2019Sanders then deleted her first two tweets, and responded directly to Biden. https://t.co/fbmVAqDoWI Sarah Huckabee Sanders (@SarahHuckabee) December 20, 2019This isn't the first time Biden's stutter has been invoked by Republicans.
cbsnews.comFirst lady's spokeswoman will replace Sarah Sanders as White House press secretary
Stephanie Grisham, who has served as first lady Melania Trump's spokeswoman for over two years, will replace Sarah Sanders as White House press secretary and communications director. Grisham has become a close and trusted adviser to the first lady and the first family during her time at the White House, and before. Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Grisham has not only the trust of the president and first lady, but has a particular ability to understand the needs of the press. Principal Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley, who was interested in the position, quickly tweeted his support for Grisham. A former White House official said they have been very vocal that merging the two roles press secretary and communications director is not smart.
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