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Ms. Sanders, I’m thankful that Trump wasn’t president when I came to this country
The Miami Herald ^ | November 21, 2017 | Fabiola Santiago

Posted on 11/21/2017 1:07:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

In President Donald Trump’s first Thanksgiving in the White House, the Pilgrims are expendable — and so is the media’s dignity.

Clad in cheerful holiday red, his press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, walked up to the White House press corps podium Monday and ran through the reasons she’s thankful this Thanksgiving.

Her list was basically a rundown of President Trump’s so-called “law and order” and “America First” policies, and she thanked the protagonists tasked with defending the country, our borders and our streets.

The moment might have gone down as another superficial delivery of rhetoric versus substance, but then Sanders did something none of us have seen in decades of practicing journalism.

She literally strong-armed White House reporters into marking the holiday, too.

She would not take questions, she said, unless reporters listed what they’re thankful for this season.

She wasn’t kidding....

(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...


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KEYWORDS: fabiolasantiago; media; miamiherald; nevertrumpers; sanders; thanksgiving; trump
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To: NorthMountain

My paternal forebears arrived in Philadelphia in November 1750, from Swtzerland. First they had to swear allegiance to King George III. Then Grandpa Hans received Warrent Rights to 50 acres of land in York Township, York County, PA from the Penns. And the rest is history.


21 posted on 11/21/2017 2:02:52 PM PST by Tucker39 (Read: Psalm 145. The whole psalm.....aloud; as praise to our God.)
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To: Tucker39

Congratulations. That makes us both the same thing: natural born citizens of these United States.


22 posted on 11/21/2017 2:04:46 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Be cause they feel like she is treating them like children, which is exactly how they behave.


23 posted on 11/21/2017 2:05:39 PM PST by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: sauropod
It’s a hollow one marked by pettiness, scandal and an anti-immigrant spirit in the White House that runs contrary to the American story of arrival the holiday celebrates.

Fabiola's wrong. It started out as 'anti-illegal' - had nothing to do with legal immigrants. But now it's morphing into that as we hear from people like Fabiola - an idiot who's under the impression that an advertising jingo placed on the Statue of Liberty to solicit donations for the Statue Fund IS our Constitution.

We ARE a nation of legal immigrants. WE ARE NOT A NATION OF ILLEGALS. WE ARE NOT A NATION OF PISSED OFF INGRATES EITHER.

Illegals are NOT Immigrants.

Thieves are NOT house guests.

Street drug pushers are NOT pharmacists.

Grow up Fabiola... our country bends over backwards to be fair - to you - to your parents - to the legal people we accept as citizens.

YOU Faviola DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO INVITE ILLEGALS INTO OUR HOME.

24 posted on 11/21/2017 2:13:43 PM PST by GOPJ (https://www.reddit.com/r/StumpSheet/comments/6ec3z1/fake_hate_crimes_official/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hogwash! Absolute and utter spittle from the tripe’s mouth. When she came to this country she, like so many others, would not have cared to who the person was in the Presidency. The USA is a dream for many who live outside its hallow walls that to put feet on American soil is a dream come true for so many. Half of them wouldn’t care if the Easter Bunny was President versus Santa Claus as President. I choose Santa because his gifts are so much better! /s


25 posted on 11/21/2017 2:14:10 PM PST by zaxtres
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To: Tucker39

And how many Indians died so your invader ancestors could enjoy that fifty acres free of its original owners? I’ll bet you’ll be celebrating that conquerors’ holiday called Thanksgiving.

(JUST KIDDING!!!!!!)

;^)


26 posted on 11/21/2017 2:20:15 PM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cecilia Vega was born in San Francisco. So what does that mean?


27 posted on 11/21/2017 3:08:22 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
She literally strong-armed White House reporters into marking the holiday, too.

She would not take questions, she said, unless reporters listed what they’re thankful for this season.

How dare she ask them to get in the spirit of a national holiday.
They should be grateful to her for her insistence:

The Key to Unhappiness - Denis Prager (5½minutes, and worth every second)


28 posted on 11/21/2017 4:06:54 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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To: elcid1970

Things were pretty well tamed in York County, PA by the time Hans and Anna arrived. They were farmers. Several of their offspring, several generations before me built grist mills with water wheels and ground grain for the locals. Only the foundation of one of them remains.


29 posted on 11/21/2017 5:20:13 PM PST by Tucker39 (Read: Psalm 145. The whole psalm.....aloud; as praise to our God.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She should be thankful that the United States has always been so welcoming to those from other, perhaps unsafe and/or dangerous, shores, including those that she departed.


30 posted on 11/21/2017 5:23:40 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I wonder if Fabiolo complained about Clinton when this happened?


31 posted on 11/21/2017 5:27:25 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sanders was brilliant to make the press corp uncomfortable. It was really cheesy and I loved it.


32 posted on 11/21/2017 5:30:22 PM PST by cornfedcowboy
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To: a fool in paradise
"When does the pilgrimage begin and end?"

When you open and close the HTML tags

33 posted on 11/21/2017 5:31:04 PM PST by al baby (May the Forceps be with you Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: Post5203
GTFOMC

And take every other America hating pig with you. (Not you Post 5203)

34 posted on 11/21/2017 5:45:35 PM PST by Boomer (TisOK2BWhite)
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To: Tucker39

As a kid I was fascinated by mill wheels. In rural northern Virginia there were many grist mills including George Washington’s. Most were in ruins but if we passed one I would beg Dad to stop the car.

These were all the undershot kind. The mill races were often still full of stagnant water & Dad warned me not to get too close. One was to me as big as a Ferris wheel. IIRC it was iron & outlasted the others. The streams which powered these mills were lined with limestone, more like aqueducts.


35 posted on 11/21/2017 6:06:53 PM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maybe if he had been president scumbags
Would not be allowed.


36 posted on 12/08/2017 6:35:27 AM PST by ravenwolf (If the Bible does not say it in plain wodsView Replies, please don`t preach it to me.)
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