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I own the Red Hen restaurant that asked Sarah Sanders to leave. Resistance isn’t futile (barf alert)
The Washington Post ^ | May 14, 2019 | Stephanie Wilkinson

Posted on 05/14/2019 10:42:29 AM PDT by KingofZion

“Hello Intolerant, intellectually-challenged, psychotic, socialists!

Your so-called business is in jeopardy. Rest assured this is not a threat but simply a warning that predicts your downfall. When your treasonist hypocrite lowlife Obama took our nation into despair (for 8 yrs) we didn’t do or say the things you do. Get over it, before it’s too late! BTW, there are a lot more of us than there are of you.’’

I’ve been getting hate mail for almost a year now, ever since I asked White House press secretary Sarah Sanders to leave my Lexington, Va., restaurant, the Red Hen, last June. ***

Faced with the prospect of serving a fine meal to a person whose actions in the service of our country we felt violated basic standards of humanity, we balked. We couldn’t do it.

I took Ms. Sanders aside and politely suggested she leave. She agreed, equally politely. She may or may not have expected this day would come, but she never showed any sign of outrage, or even much surprise. We’d drawn a line; she’d accepted it.

I’m pretty sure both of us thought that was the end of the matter.

When I awoke the next morning, social media was on fire. The incident had gone from a Facebook post to a tagged tweet to nationally trending news with the whoosh of lighter fluid to a flame.

The blowback was swift and aggressive. Within 24 hours, the restaurant’s phone line was hacked, my staff and I were doxxed, and threats to our lives and families and property were pouring in through every available channel. Protesters colonized the streets around the restaurant. Thousands of fake Yelp reviews torpedoed our ratings, and dozens of people attempted to lock up our tables with reservations they had no intention of honoring. ***

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


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I think TOS prohibit me from using my preferred adjectives here. Apparently the owner hasn't learned anything from this experience.
1 posted on 05/14/2019 10:42:29 AM PDT by KingofZion
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To: KingofZion

Ever the victim...


2 posted on 05/14/2019 10:46:10 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: KingofZion

The Red Hen has bird lice


3 posted on 05/14/2019 10:48:48 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12)There were Democrat espionage operations on Republican candidates)
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To: KingofZion

When you find yourself in a hole....


4 posted on 05/14/2019 10:49:19 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: KingofZion

Business must be slow if she has to show up now to let everyone know she still exists.


5 posted on 05/14/2019 10:49:25 AM PDT by Wizdum (The Dems are not afraid a wall won't work, the Dems are TERRIFIED a wall WILL work.)
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To: KingofZion

Kind of funny how party A (Democrats) can hand over a legacy of some things to party B (GOP) and not question it at all when they do it themselves, but jump down the throat of the other party.

It was, and still is, a complex question faced with many ruses. “Undocumented” people can’t, by definition, document who their kids are, either. In the old days, people who really were fleeing fatal trouble in their homelands would accept the parting of adults and children philosophically, hoping and praying for an eventual reunion under better circumstances.

What’s the best we could hope for here — DNA verification? And then do the children belong where the adults are detained? It’s not like we’ve got housing for individual families either... damned if you do, damned if you don’t. It’s 9 parts ruse to 1 part legitimate concern, and at that hypocritical.

But the Democrats don’t want a policy debate about the merits. They want to oversimplify and then to try to shame the GOP for following laws that Democrats wrote. Go figure.


6 posted on 05/14/2019 10:50:03 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: KingofZion

Didn’t this POS follow Sanders to another restaurant harassing her and her group?


7 posted on 05/14/2019 10:50:20 AM PDT by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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To: bert

The Red Hen needs a dose of Avian flu


8 posted on 05/14/2019 10:50:35 AM PDT by lightman (Byzantine Troparia: The "praise choruses" of antiquity.)
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To: KingofZion

Since I probably would never eat in her pretentious overpriced eatery anyway it does no good for me to say I would never ever under any circumstances knowingly do any business with a self righteous smug liberal jackass such as this woman. I wouldn’t p**s down her throat if her guts were on fire.


9 posted on 05/14/2019 10:50:59 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: KingofZion

Bless her heart.


10 posted on 05/14/2019 10:51:03 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: KingofZion

I can’t read the whole story because I’m blocked by a paywall.

By any chance does she mention the further harassment Sarah and her family endured that evening?


11 posted on 05/14/2019 10:51:24 AM PDT by CaptainPhilFan
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I’d love to see one anonymous person every day, after eating at the Red Hen, collapse at their table and be taken to the ER via ambulance complaining of food poisoning.


12 posted on 05/14/2019 10:52:50 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: KingofZion

> Faced with the prospect of serving a fine meal to a person whose actions in the service of our country we felt violated basic standards of humanity, we balked. <

That’s a typical fascist/liberal statement - My viewpoint is the only viewpoint that is permitted! Any other viewpoint is hateful! Death to these conservative haters!

Okay, not death to the haters. Not just yet. We’ll take care of them later. But for now, just refuse to serve them.


13 posted on 05/14/2019 10:53:23 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Starstruck

yeah... it was more than they are now letting on to be. can’t they accept what the consequences were for going “above and beyond”?


14 posted on 05/14/2019 10:54:31 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: KingofZion

“Bake the Damn Cake!”


15 posted on 05/14/2019 10:55:35 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: JonPreston

Why would we wish such a fate on such a poor person?


16 posted on 05/14/2019 10:55:39 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: dfwgator

in fact it is much less


17 posted on 05/14/2019 10:56:04 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: Leaning Right

And these are the folks who would tell us what Christianity ought to be, by the way.


18 posted on 05/14/2019 10:57:01 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: KingofZion

“Business is better than good.”

And you have Trump to thank!


19 posted on 05/14/2019 10:57:49 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Starstruck

Yes; mysteriously omitted from her account. You’d think it was a Noel Coward play from her retelling of this ugly event.


20 posted on 05/14/2019 11:00:14 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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