Posted on 11/26/2017 1:47:28 PM PST by Kaslin
April Ryan, an inexplicably esteemed member of the White House press corps, having tried and failed to promote a "fake news" controversy over White House's Press Secretary Sarah Sanders' Thanksgiving pecan pie, has not apologized or acknowledged her error, has rejected Sanders' face-saving attempt to smooth things over, and is apparently worried that Sanders will publicly poison her and her fellow journalists. You can't make this stuff up.
Ryan's history, as documented at NewsBusters, is full of embarrassing statements, unhinged rants, and stunning ignorance of very basic facts.
The pie saga began when Sanders posted a photo Thursday afternoon of the pecan pie she baked for Thanksgiving. Here is her 2:40 p.m. tweet and the top half of the pie:
The first tweet claiming Sanders had posted a "#fakepie" appeared two minutes later. "#FakePie" and "#Piegate" briefly trended on Twitter.
Just before noon on Friday, April Ryan tweeted that Sanders needed to "show it (the pie) to us on a table," and further demanded that she needed to see "folks eating it and a pic of you cooking it." Apparently sensing some kind of victory, she arrogantly added that she was "getting the biggest laugh out of this":
The joke is on April Ryan.
It apparently didn't occur to her that the pie was not a table decoration, but was instead baked for human consumption. In other words, the "cooking" and the act of grateful meal participants "eating it" took place the previous day.
At 4:10 p.m. on Friday, the New York Daily News posted an item with a false headline claiming that "No one believes that Sarah Huckabee Sanders baked this pie." The content — "many seem to think that she didn't cook on Thursday either" — contradicted the headline.
The Piegate-supporting tweets included in the NYDN story included one claiming that Sanders had posted an image which was "stolen from PBS." Sensing a victory, one Tweeter piled on: "The fact that this is stolen from @PBS, a channel you'd cheerfully defund, just makes this all the sadder."
This is where Piegate began to unravel.
It turns out that the opening portion of the "PBS" web page location (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/) applies to "all tweet images" stored at Twitter. The full URL for Sanders' pie pic (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DPV1z_4VQAAg9qa.jpg:large) locates the photo within Twitter. Those berating Sanders for stealing from PBS were obviously hardest hit. (One reporter had the integrity to pull her related tweet and genuinely apologize for her "error" Friday evening. Sadly, she appears to be a rare exception.)
Early Friday evening, the Daily Caller's Alex Pfeiffer reported that "A reverse image search (an attempt to find an earlier photo posting than Sanders') did not find any other pictures of the pecan pie that Sanders posted."
Saturday evening, Kurtis Lee at the ever-opportunistic, Trump-despising Los Angeles Times went so far as to claim that "#piegate is the latest example of the Trump administration's credibility being called into question." Despite evidence which by that time had been available for almost 24 hours that Sanders' photo constituted the first appearance of the pie in question, Lee insisted that "only White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders can answer" whether she baked the pie or not.
Lee missed the fact that Sarah Sanders had answered that question earlier Saturday, telling Fox News's Todd Starnes, "Of course I made the pie. I make it for every holiday family gathering and have for years." Starnes also added that "it is considered ill-mannered and uncouth to suggest a Southern woman would sully the sanctity of the Thanksgiving Day table with a store-bought pecan pie."
Lee's LA Times writeup also had this laugh line:
... many partisans on the left, but also a journalist — wanted to see the pie in a more realistic setting.
The "journalist" to whom Lee referred was Ryan (pictured nearby earlier this year), who is obviously a "partisan on the left." He should have written, "many partisans on the left, including a journalist."
Getting back to the risible Ryan, Sanders promised to replicate her Thanksgiving pie-baking effort and bring it to Washington, tweeting: "Don’t worry @AprilDRyan because I’m nice I’ll bake one for you next week."
Friday evening, instead of accepting the Press Secretary's gracious offer as a way out of her now-clearly humiliating predicament, Ryan demanded eyewitness observation while getting paranoid and spiteful:
It would appear that April Ryan is afraid that Sarah Sanders will poison the White House press corps in front of the whole world.
April Ryan has demonstrated once again that she is a national embarrassment and a disgraceful role model for aspiring journalists. The National Association of Black Journalists, which named Ryan as their "Journalist of the Year" in May, should be but sadly aren't mortified at Ryan's bias, her ignorance, her gratuitous insults directed at those she doesn't like, her reflexive playing of the race card, and her utter lack of professionalism.
She may do what I do when I’m on facebook: I use a google image of the food I’m cooking. It’s faster and easier than getting the phone out and snapping away. And I don’t feel quite so stupid photographing a piece of cake.
My point is most people would grab a pic of a perfect pie.
“The National Association of Black Journalists, which named Ryan as their “Journalist of the Year” in May”
The competition must have been overwhelmingly bad for this to take place.
Gotcha.
Don’t even think of pie — whether Sarah’s pecan pie or DJT getting two scoops of ice cream with his.
This is not about dessert. This is an outburst of Left-wing tribalism. In other words, one of the most primitive impulses of the human spirit.
The triviality of the issue doesn’t matter here. What matters is that these people hate us for who we are.
We are not of their tribe. Logic, reason no longer play a part.
They hate us. That is all.
Is it just me or does it look like the apple is missing from her mouth?
All I can say I’ve gotten out of this nonsense is an appetite for a pecan pie.
“I think April Ryan is an affirmative action journalist”
Can there be any other explanation? Why else would anyone employ this moron?
She ought to be able to grow a darn fine mustache on that upper lip.
I can tell April has never made a pecan pie. If she had, she’d know it’s one of the easiest and fastest pies in the world to whip up....in other words, no big deal.
Me too. And all I have is some leftover raisin pie.
I guess I’ll have to just suffer through another piece now
April Ryan needs to get a life. She is totally poisoned by hatred and has made a fool of herself.
Wow, I have not heard this level or repartee` since the 5th grade school yard!
I had no idea that Mensa membership was a requirement for employment as an MSM journalist!
In a battle of wits between April Ryan and Sarah H. Sanders, this so-called “journalist” is unarmed and defenseless.
It looks to me like she done eat all the pies in her zip code.
“April Ryan needs to get a life. She is totally poisoned by hatred....”
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How can she not be filled with hatred and rage....after all, Sarah Sanders had the temerity to ask her what she was thankful for. Put yourself in April’s shoes and being asked that question Thanksgiving week...you’d be scarred for life. Oh, the humanity!
Let’s see...I would make her a cream pie just to throw it in her face...
As if I didn’t know that.
Sarah should just say to her, “You can believe what you want to believe, but I am not compelled, nor do I feel obligated to prove anything to you!”....”Next...”
Actually she would love to eat it but her lack of dexterity with sharp eating utensils requires her to eat with her hands which precludes public dining.
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