WaPo editorial board: Sarah Sanders 'should be allowed to eat dinner in peace'

[turbinetree]

BY MORGAN GSTALTER - 06/24/18 09:18 PM EDT

The Washington Post editorial board defended White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Sunday after she was kicked out of a Virginia restaurant.

The “never-at-rest social media” has blurred the lined of public and private life, the newspaper’s board wrote.

“It wasn’t the first time recently that strong political feelings have spilled into what used to be considered the private sphere,” the editorial board wrote. “We understand the strength of the feelings, but we don’t think the spilling is a healthy development.”

Earlier this week, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s dinner at a Mexican restaurant in Washington, D.C., was interrupted by protesters.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/393884-wapo-editorial-board-sarah-sanders-should-be-allowed-to-eat


I disagree...............when you are a public figure and you lie, you are accountable for your actions, and if you make your bed and sleep in lies...................

[JI7]

1. any mention of her support for businesses discriminating against LGBT ?

[turbinetree]

4. Nope.......................she's special.................she's Sarah.................

[JI7]

11. then, aren't there even more important things for them to write about ?

why do bigoted right wingers hurt feelings always result in this type of response .

while their everyday bigotry and defense of it from attacks on black athletes, brown kids , gay couples etc is just treated like they are reporting on the latest weather or traffic report.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

13. Oh she only does that 9am to 5pm. She was off the clock!

[treestar]

2. So the Administration gets to create drama and then

go home and be treated normally? Trying to normalize their crap.

[handmade34]

54. well said n/t

[nini]

3. Her own home would work then

Or perhaps there's some nice KKK cafe she can go to.

[StTimofEdenRoc]

6. Perhaps chick-fil-a

[nini]

7. definitely

They'd roll out a red carpet for her.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

55. ... or how 'bout a Cracka Barrel?!

[get the red out]

51. Indeed!

Good solution for the problem SHE helped create.

[dalton99a]

5. Horrible people doing horrible things to the American public deserve what's coming to them

[Cha]

8. 1. Unsurprisingly, this bit of kneejerk onanism from the WaPo editorial board completely misses the

Link to tweet

The trumpeople aren't letting anyone eat in Peace.. why should they?

[dalton99a]

9. Bingo

[Cha]

26. Here's some more, dalton, from the thread reader that sharedvalues provided below..

14. And so, right on cue, the Very Serious People ride to the rescue of the aspiring tyrants, saying, yet again: Calm Down. Let's not get crazy here. Let's not be RUDE. Heavens no. We must retain our decorum at all costs.

15. WaPo editors say that accepting incivility (gasp) is a "slippery slope." But that gets it exactly wrong. WE ARE ALREADY ON THE SLIPPERY SLOPE. It's a slope that leads to illiberalism, violence, & collapse. It's a slope greased accommodation & civility.

16. What the Red Hen owner (& others) are trying to do is jerk us awake, push of OFF the slippery slope. They're trying desperately to draw a line, to cease the slide. And every time they try -- even now, even to this day, even with toddlers in cages -- the MSM scolds them.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1010965890404216832.html

[dalton99a]

30. Geez. We are in a freakin' war and fighting for our very survival

and they want us to be polite and turn the other cheek?

[Cha]

32. I know.. and it's disappointing when Dems are doing this.. #19 & #20..

19. The WaPo editorial board, like the MSM establishment more generally, has been utterly fucking useless in slowing our slide to illiberalism. They've done nothing but obscure what's happening behind a veneer of Normal. They have failed. But for the luvagod ...

20. ... the very least they can do is refrain from concern trolling citizens who are (RIGHTLY) in a panic about the loss of their country. Maybe the agents of this cruelty, the ones lying on its behalf, should feel a little discomfort. There are worse things in the world. </fin>

I can't even believe Dems who are questioning Stephanie Wilkinson's right to ask SHS to leave her restaurant.

[dalton99a]

33. Damn. It is definitely appropriate to question their motive

[Cha]

35. I guess they're just too nice for their own

good in that respect.

[MaryMagdaline]

60. This is brilliant

WAP just get out of the way.

[sharedvalues]

24. Here's the full thread

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1010965890404216832.html

[Cha]

25. Thank you, sharedvalues! I like #14, 15, 16..

14. And so, right on cue, the Very Serious People ride to the rescue of the aspiring tyrants, saying, yet again: Calm Down. Let's not get crazy here. Let's not be RUDE. Heavens no. We must retain our decorum at all costs.

15. WaPo editors say that accepting incivility (gasp) is a "slippery slope." But that gets it exactly wrong. WE ARE ALREADY ON THE SLIPPERY SLOPE. It's a slope that leads to illiberalism, violence, & collapse. It's a slope greased accommodation & civility.

16. What the Red Hen owner (& others) are trying to do is jerk us awake, push of OFF the slippery slope. They're trying desperately to draw a line, to cease the slide. And every time they try -- even now, even to this day, even with toddlers in cages -- the MSM scolds them.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1010965890404216832.html

[BumRushDaShow]

68. Thanks for that and check out what he also retweeted

Link to tweet

TEXT

Dave Rahardja
? @drahardja
Replying to @drvox

Gonna keep reposting this.

We must not tolerate intolerance, lest we lose tolerance altogether.
Paradox of tolerance.
2:34 PM - 24 Jun 2018

The re-tweet image that is important -

[Cha]

69. The Paradox of Tolerance! I started posting that around last night(my time)..

I found it on The Obama Diary..

Here's just one place.. I think it explains it well..



https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=10783982

Mahalo, BRDS!

[Trek4Truth]

10. Well we each have an opinion...so when you see Sarah, Morgan whoever then by all means feel

free to ignore her and let her eat in peace. That is not what I would do however. If they are proud of these positions and policies...then what is the problem here?

[JI7]

12. anything from the WP editorial board on the Bigoted pic her father tweeted recently ?

[MichMan]

14. Anyone who works for the Washington Post should be denied service too

They can all eat with SHS

[Yupster]

15. I agree with them

I don't think we should have Republican restaurants, donut shops and auto parts stores and Democratic ones.

[JI7]

16. but it's ok to refuse to serve them if they are lgbt according to SHS

[Yupster]

19. The cake store owner

said they were welcome to buy stuff from him as they had for a decade.

He didn't want to make a special order for them as he saw that as endorsing the event.

Huckaby didn't request anything special. She just wanted to be a customer like any other.

The baker comparison does not work.

If she asked them to cater a Trump event or write Trump on the potatoes with gravy, then it would be an apt comparison.

[JI7]

20. special orders are part of wedding cakes . he did special orders for other customers but not for the

gay couple.

so yes, the comparison works because he denied to the lgbt couple what he gave to the others which was special order wedding cakes which is how most wedding cakes are.

[mythology]

43. The baker comparison doesn't work, but not for the reason you think it doesn't

Being gay, or black or female isn't a choice. On the other hand, being a bigoted piece of shit human being like Sarah Huckabee Sanders is a choice. It's a choice she makes every single day she gets up and goes to work defending Donald Trump. She could make a different choice tomorrow. A gay person can't wake up and say "oh I won't be gay today".

[treestar]

65. So as a very devout "Christian"

Should he not refuse to make any cake that appears to endorse a pagan, Jewish or other ceremony, and is that OK and normal?

In fact, if he is a Protestant, should he refuse to make cakes endorsing any Catholic ceremony, like a First Communion?

[Goodheart]

18. I don't agree with them

You're too late. That ship has sailed.

Republicans made these rules; they should live by them just as everyone else is forced to. Fair is fair.

[onecaliberal]

17. Fuck that. I should be able to LIVE MY LIFE IN PEACE.

The republicans did this, their fake moral convictions did this. Why does the media demand we tolerate them. The media and republicans act as though they should never suffer consequences to their actions.

[moondust]

21. Eat dinner in peace--at home.

SCOTUS opened this door, and now they need to close it.

If the baker can refuse to serve a customer whose beliefs and behavior he/she does not approve of then why wouldn't the restaurant owner be able to do the same? Equal protection.

And why couldn't the pizza delivery driver refuse to deliver to addresses he/she knows to be occupied by customers whose beliefs and behavior he/she does not approve of?

Welcome to the slippery slope, your Honors.



Incidentally, I would personally not protest outside the home of a public official as they did the other day to Nielsen.

[gopiscrap]

45. I sure as hell would, also at their kids' school

life needs to be made unbearable for these fuckers and their sapwn so their spawn think twice about being like them

[True Dough]

59. Targeting the kids is definitely going a step too far

Depending on their age, they don't necessarily have the capacity to understand. Even if they were mature enough to comprehend, what are the kids supposed to do if they can be saved from the brainwashing? Wander down to the local orphanage?

SHS is fair game. The children should be left alone.

[treestar]

67. They make life unbearable for others

and yet they are entitled not to sustain any feedback, according to the WaPo.

[sharedvalues]

22. Opinion amplified by the Hill which is owned by a Trumpster

The Hill of course amplifies this opinion.
And brings Maxine Waters into it unnecessarily.
And omits the most thoughtful parts of the WaPo piece.


The Hill has some great reporters. But it is owned by a Trumpster wealthy Republican. And his bias shows.

[Behind the Aegis]

23. She was not judged by the color of her skin (or sexual orientation)...

...but the content of her character.

[Wednesdays]

27. It seems they would have dissed the Boston Tea Party

for being impolite.

[Loki Liesmith]

29. I'll diss the Boston Tea Party

The protest was a disproportionate response to British tax policy.

[treestar]

66. +1

[Lint Head]

28. Womp womp

[dalton99a]

31. Exactly

[tblue37]

34. Shunning is an effective way to constrain bad, socially destructive behavior (since

guillotines have gone out of fashion).

[Thekaspervote]

39. Oh you nailed it!

[rainin]

56. Yes.

[jberryhill]

58. Yes. It is the classic non-violent way of dealing with social offenses

[torius]

36. It's called the Womp Womp Diet

it's a hot new thing and all the Repubs will be on it soon, followed by the Mob Chase Workout.

[ecstatic]

37. I think they have Stockholm syndrome...every time their precious

Huckabee gets a sad, they come running to her defense. Not just WaPo but the NYT, as well as other news organizations.

It's amazing to me because they're so close to all the information--but maybe so close that they miss the forest for the trees.

[Thekaspervote]

38. Dotard and his ilk should get to experience first hand what they are dishing out

This is minor compared to what they inflict on this country

[regnaD kciN]

40. Yes, she should...

...in her own home.

[calimary]

41. The other part is - there have been precisely NO consequences for what they've done.

The CON-controlled Congress hasn't done anything about it and doesn't seem inclined to start. They even have their own cable TV echo chambers to "kinda catapult the propaganda," as dubya once said. And on top of that, they also have a nitwit base that is proud of its intentional ignorance, eagerly and happily supporting it all.

There are no consequences for what they've done. Or - think of it another way. If all these scandals and this much treachery, deceit, corruption, malfeasance, deviousness, and just plain ol' theft, were being perpetrated by a Democratic administration, how would the republi-CONS react? How would they respond? How MANY different impeachment charges would they levy? If this were a Hillary Clinton administration, My GOD. They'd be building gallows all over the Washington Mall, so they could hang her and then cut her down and hang her all over again. Look how they obstructed and disrespected President Obama! If he'd been up to a tiny fraction of this load of shit, there would be a new prime time reality show: "Inquisition of the Week!"

I hope the GOP gets the snot beaten out of them in November. I hope they are roundly shamed. Humbled. Humiliated. I hope the Blue Wave is a freakin' Tsunami. A catastrophic setback. I hope it leaves such a stink that it takes them at least a couple of generations even to approach getting back on their feet. They have to be beaten badly to knock any sense back into them. This crowd has spent far too long in its bubble.

And if, in the meantime, there are many tiny little spurts of resistance, if they can't eat at a restaurant in peace, well, then so be it. Measly little home-made, civilian, citizen-driven consequences like that might have to do, until all these fiends are facing possible convictions and jail.

[PaulX2]

42. I Only Respect People That Deserve Respect

SHS should be tarred and feathered.

[gopiscrap]

44. Fuck her, I hope that at the next restaurant she chokes on her meal

[njhoneybadger]

46. Fuck these people, they need pressure put on them no matter where the fuck they are.

No rest for the wicked
Actions have consequences

[stonecutter357]

47. thoughts and prayers !

[argyl]

48. Fuck Her Feelings.

[KG]

49. those that want respect

[Vinca]

50. And gay couples should have their wedding cakes made by any baker and pharmacists

should not refuse to fill prescriptions for contraceptives, etc., etc., etc. A moral reason for declining service works two ways. That said, I like the idea of serving Smokey and her entourage and sending the proceeds from the bill to the Democratic candidate running for office in the district.

[kentuck]

52. "We understand the strength of the feelings, but we don't think the spilling is a healthy developmen

“We understand the strength of the feelings, but we don’t think the spilling is a healthy development.”

===

I think I agree with the Washington Post.

[beachbum bob]

53. so shouldn't people seeking a cake, be able to so n "peace"? Or seeking valid medical scripts?

[dubyadiprecession]

57. Sarah should be allowed to eat in any restaurant she wants.

Provided the staff gets to specially prepare her food!

[DeminPennswoods]

61. Don't think she's entitled to eat or do anything in public

"in peace". She works for an evil administration and apparently agrees with the policies or she'd have left. She and every other person who works for Trump should get an earful of anger when they are out and about.

[samnsara]

62. she can stay home and cook up a great dinner for herself....

...and eat in peace...

[struggle4progress]

63. I'm concerned she has clogged her cerebral arteries by eating too much

[MFM008]

64. Ask the supreme court

Maybe she asked for cake.

[lame54]

70. The WaPo has been great at exposing this administrations bs...

But that has not slowed them down one bit

Our dem leaders aren't doing near enough to curb their fascism

So WaPo either offer solutions or get the fuck out of the way

Being civil has gotten us nowhere

[Iggo]

71. She is allowed to eat in peace. At home. (n/t)