If you think Trump doesn't lie, you will think Spicer and Sanders are models of truthiness.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Lies for a Living
Spare me the moral outrage
Michelle Wolf told some jokes last night at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner and lots of panties are in bunches.
It was hugely controversial! Caustic! Stunning! Scathing!
But was it? Was it any of those things, really? No, it wasn’t. The outrage about this comedienne at a dinner is so much sanctimonious bullshit, I’m disgusted. But that’s the default emotion this administration inspires, isn’t it? Disgust.
The jokes were about liars and porn stars and money and media complicity. And every bit of it was perfectly reflective of America in this dark time. Our president said more offensive and insulting things at a “ campaign rally” last night than this woman at a dinner in DC. Our president is on record as a misogynist, a racist, and a bully. He boasts of sexual conquests and gives those who don’t agree with him (or who don’t kneel) belittling and degrading nicknames. He mocks the disabled and encourages his rabid base in their frothing fantasies of supremacy. This is a regime built on cruelty.
But we know all of this. We’ve been watching it for 464 days (yes, I’m counting). We’ve watched him lie and deny, we’ve watched them point their fingers and feign outrage. His reign began with a lie, about something as trivial as crowd size. The stage was set for fiction and it’s grown with each passing day. We know all of this.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders lies EVERY SINGLE DAY in her press conference. She lies and spins and berates reporters for asking questions about policy and constitutional rights and the verifiable fact of foreign meddling in our democracy and she defends her boss’ lies EVERY SINGLE DAY. This woman, who claims to be a Christian, supports and lies for the most corrupt administration in our nation’s history and we are supposed to feel outraged because someone calls her a liar? IN A JOKE?
This is not a defense of Michelle Wolf. I had never heard of her until last night. She’s a comedienne, for god’s sake (not to take anything away from comediennes, but we should probably be rationing our outrage these days). Sometimes she’s funny and sometimes she’s not. It’s her job to make people laugh. If it’s not funny, don’t laugh?—?whatever. But if the worst thing we can say is that she offended a LIAR by calling her a LIAR, then?—?whatever. (And don’t even start with the smokey eye thing, that is a good thing and there were?—?refreshingly?—?no ugly jokes about women and their appearance.)
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, White House Press Secretary, is a liar. As is her boss, our president. As was her predecessor, Sean Spicer. As is everyone holding up this rotten administration. The White House Press Corps watches it every day and spins it in whatever way their bosses dictate in order to sell the news, but every thinking person knows?—?this administration is built on lies.
Spare us the moral outrage. We are desperate for some moral courage. |
