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RandySF

(58,337 posts)
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 10:23 PM Oct 2017

Sarah Huckabee Sanders Outed As White House Official Spreading Smear About Obama

It is being reported, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is one of the officials who is spreading the false smear that Obama didn’t call Gen. John Kelly after his son died in Afghanistan.

Steven Perlberg of Buzzfeed News tweeted:




Trump is using the Press Secretary and others to spread false stories about Obama to distract from the fact that Trump was playing golf as the bodies of four Green Berets who were ambushed in Niger arrived back in the United States.

The problem with this story is that Gen. Kelly and his family sat with then First Lady Michelle Obama at a White House breakfast for Gold Star families in 2011. Gen. Kelly got something better than a phone call, which is something that Trump didn’t do for the Green Berets. Kelly was seated at the First Lady’s table in the White House. I would say that is some substantial respect for the Kelly family’s loss.

Donald Trump didn’t pick up the phone and call the families. He didn’t meet the bodies of the fallen as they arrived at Dover AFB, which is something that both the administrations of Barack Obama and George W. Bush did. The Trump administration didn’t publicly mention the ambush in Niger until 11 days after the attack.


http://www.politicususa.com/2017/10/17/sarah-huckabee-sanders-outed-white-house-official-spreading-smears-obama.html
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Outed As White House Official Spreading Smear About Obama (Original Post) RandySF Oct 2017 OP
How can honest sensitive people deal with this bullsh*t..think about it.. Stuart G Oct 2017 #1
She is not a press secretary, she is a propaganda secretary. BigmanPigman Oct 2017 #2
One cannot "confirm," "on background" or no, a LIE. WinkyDink Oct 2017 #3
She was raised by a liar to be a liar. Solly Mack Oct 2017 #4
Well, we know now what it takes to be a press secretary for a Trump administration. Baitball Blogger Oct 2017 #8
But, but, but..... SergeStorms Oct 2017 #19
... George II Oct 2017 #20
The Beverley Hillbillies.... SergeStorms Oct 2017 #21
Save the dog ! syringis Oct 2017 #30
Don't get pissed at me DU Corgigal Oct 2017 #5
Speaking skill? Kleveland Oct 2017 #7
Ah, yeah Corgigal Oct 2017 #9
I am with you, just offering a bit of verbose Reinforcement! Kleveland Oct 2017 #12
It's not just women. The men are cut from the same cloth. hedda_foil Oct 2017 #18
Mika Brzezinski comments periodically, that Ilsa Oct 2017 #11
No surprise to me... Kleveland Oct 2017 #6
But -- Benghazi, and emails. Hekate Oct 2017 #10
can't find any other link to the truth this story... Grassy Knoll Oct 2017 #13
Genes and upbringing will out. TomSlick Oct 2017 #14
These fuckers have absolutely *ZERO* redeeming qualities whatsoever. Initech Oct 2017 #15
Simple explanation...... MyOwnPeace Oct 2017 #16
Obama wouldn't have called General Kelly. Mr.Bill Oct 2017 #17
It's that good Christian upbringing. JohnnyRingo Oct 2017 #22
When they're not busy torturing animals dalton99a Oct 2017 #23
And Obama hasn't said a word about it because Stonepounder Oct 2017 #24
trashy christians JI7 Oct 2017 #25
I don't believe for a minute that Trump is personally calling anyone Rhiannon12866 Oct 2017 #26
He did call the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson today, and he told her tblue37 Oct 2017 #29
I just read that on another thread - Good Grief! Rhiannon12866 Oct 2017 #31
Yes, he calls to tell them to get over it. tavernier Oct 2017 #33
Good thing she's a "good" MFM008 Oct 2017 #27
Press Secretary Roy Rolling Oct 2017 #28
Sarah, thou shalt not bear false witness blueinredohio Oct 2017 #32
I don't Think Sarah ever got that good feeling woman get pwb Oct 2017 #34

Stuart G

(38,403 posts)
1. How can honest sensitive people deal with this bullsh*t..think about it..
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 10:28 PM
Oct 2017

"a war with the past president over how the past and present presidents deal with the death of fallen soldiers"

What a stupid, puny, and insensitive thing to do...takes a stupid puny mind to think of that

BigmanPigman

(51,551 posts)
2. She is not a press secretary, she is a propaganda secretary.
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 10:40 PM
Oct 2017

She is following the playbook of the fucking moron's hero (besides Putin that is) Hitler... Nazi extraordinaire Geobbels.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels

SergeStorms

(19,108 posts)
19. But, but, but.....
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 11:30 PM
Oct 2017

she's a good christian, and would never bear false witness!

Everyone - with the exception of Kelly - in the Trump White House lies as easily as they take their next breath. Lazy-Eye Huckleberry Sanders should be ashamed of herself, if Republicans were capable of feeling shame, that is. I've seen nothing thus far that says they are.

SergeStorms

(19,108 posts)
21. The Beverley Hillbillies....
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 11:50 PM
Oct 2017

were at least nice people! The Manhattan 'Hellbillies' are pure white trash.

But I like the graphic!

Corgigal

(9,291 posts)
5. Don't get pissed at me DU
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 10:46 PM
Oct 2017

but someone needs to write this. Does this idiot understand why she, personally as a job briefing the press everyday?

Why doesn't she see what a fool she looks like and actually get a job she can be proud of? Doesn't she have female friends who can be honest with her? Does she really think it's her speaking skill, or maybe she, personally is being used as a dig to the White House press core?

Doesn't she understand her boss at all? What a tool.

Kleveland

(1,257 posts)
7. Speaking skill?
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 10:50 PM
Oct 2017

She has the eloquence of the Beverly Hillbillys.

I wonder if she has ever read a book at all...

She probably thinks that "Grammar" is one of her parent's parents!

Swamp thing.




Corgigal

(9,291 posts)
9. Ah, yeah
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 10:54 PM
Oct 2017

I know that. I was trying to make a point without being super direct.

See women Trump finds valuable. Not valuable women, but the type trump thinks are worthy.

I will let others with better writing skills then me, say what is damn obvious to all women but the tool.

Kleveland

(1,257 posts)
12. I am with you, just offering a bit of verbose Reinforcement!
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 11:04 PM
Oct 2017

I am just so angry anymore...

This administration is making my life in this country unbearable.

hedda_foil

(16,370 posts)
18. It's not just women. The men are cut from the same cloth.
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 11:25 PM
Oct 2017

He only trusts fellow crooks, con artists and liars.

Ilsa

(61,687 posts)
11. Mika Brzezinski comments periodically, that
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 11:00 PM
Oct 2017

The press secretaries don't have that job forever, and if they lie every day, they will always be known as liars, probably unable to find work.

Kleveland

(1,257 posts)
6. No surprise to me...
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 10:47 PM
Oct 2017

She probably hates them darkies!

She is about as white toast as one could be...

Lying for Jesus seems to be a recurrent theme for her, and ugly beings like her.

There will be hell to pay.

TomSlick

(11,082 posts)
14. Genes and upbringing will out.
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 11:09 PM
Oct 2017

Those of us in Arkansas can tell you the apple has not fallen far from the tree.

MyOwnPeace

(16,909 posts)
16. Simple explanation......
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 11:16 PM
Oct 2017

Fake president Trump wanted the plane to land on the 18th. fairway so that he could "honor" the soldiers, as well as provide him the opportunity to honor the United States military by bouncing a golf ball off of the windshield of the military airplane, and then dedicate his "par" for the hole to the families that "knew what they had signed-up for" when they had children in the military.

CORRECTION: It was probably NOT a "par" - but rather, a birdie, because "he" has the bestest, greatest shots on the courses that he owns, as well as he's the one keeping score.

Mr.Bill

(24,214 posts)
17. Obama wouldn't have called General Kelly.
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 11:23 PM
Oct 2017

Kelly's son was married. He would have called his wife. She is his next of kin.

I wonder if Trump is planning on calling the families of the tens of millions who will be killed in the nuclear war he is trying to start? Oh, wait, no need to. In all likelihood they will be dead too.

JohnnyRingo

(18,613 posts)
22. It's that good Christian upbringing.
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 11:53 PM
Oct 2017

Life at the Huckabees must be a constant struggle to erase full passages in the family bible and write in quotes from slime master Lee Atwater.

I imagine the family is ethically and morally torn, as in entire pages out.

Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
24. And Obama hasn't said a word about it because
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 11:59 PM
Oct 2017

Gen. Kelly has requested that the death of his son not be talked about!!!!

Obama gets that, Trump doesn't give a shit!

And yes, Obama would have called the wife, not the father, as the next of kin, per protocol.

Rhiannon12866

(204,446 posts)
26. I don't believe for a minute that Trump is personally calling anyone
Wed Oct 18, 2017, 12:14 AM
Oct 2017

And we wouldn't want him to, either, these poor families have enough trauma to deal with.

tblue37

(65,193 posts)
29. He did call the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson today, and he told her
Wed Oct 18, 2017, 12:30 AM
Oct 2017

repeatedly that he must have known what he signed up for.

Rhiannon12866

(204,446 posts)
31. I just read that on another thread - Good Grief!
Wed Oct 18, 2017, 12:53 AM
Oct 2017

He is the very last thing that these poor families need to hear. I really truly hope that this was the only call he was allowed to make - and that it's the very last.

tavernier

(12,363 posts)
33. Yes, he calls to tell them to get over it.
Wed Oct 18, 2017, 06:26 AM
Oct 2017

I can't see him having any emotional anguish, sympathy or empathy.

Roy Rolling

(6,902 posts)
28. Press Secretary
Wed Oct 18, 2017, 12:24 AM
Oct 2017

How can the Press Secretary leak bullshit and expect to be given any credibility? Making up your own news is called a "news release" and not objective news. What a circus. So unprofessional.

pwb

(11,234 posts)
34. I don't Think Sarah ever got that good feeling woman get
Wed Oct 18, 2017, 06:39 AM
Oct 2017

When they lay down with their partners in be Bed.? She is deadish.

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