Posted on 06/24/2018 11:57:51 AM PDT by conservative98
Michael Friedman never imagined that naming his restaurant The Red Hen would be so controversial.
But when the co-owner of another restaurant named The Red Hen – this one almost 200 miles away in Lexington, Va. – refused to serve White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders on Friday night, it was open season on any eatery with Hen in its name.
“It was a bit of an interesting day yesterday,” Friedman told Fox News. “There were so many negative comments floating in on social media and people calling up my restaurants to threaten us.”
The foul play began when Sanders tweeted that she was told by the owner of the Red Hen in Lexington, Va., that she had to "leave because I work for @POTUS and I politely left." She said the episode Friday evening said far more about the owner of the restaurant than it did about her.
"I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so," Sanders said in the tweet from her official account, which generated 22,000 replies in about an hour.
While Friedman tried to quickly quell any bird-brained backlash mistakenly directed at his Italian-influenced restaurant by posting on its social media accounts that his eatery had no affiliation to the one in Lexington, it did little to stop the flood of angry comments and calls. One person called up one of Friedman’s other restaurants and threatened to blow it up, while another just repeated the word “shame” over and over again.
“This is a huge misconception,” Friedman said. “We are not affiliated with the restaurant in Lexington; this is not a franchise. We serve whoever walks through out door, no matter their race, creed, sexual orientation, political party or whatever.”
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I lived through the Jim Crow years, Democrat created, in the South. But that all started to change
All things considered, I wonder how much of the rosa parks deal was media driven?
So true. I feel a little bad for kids being raised by morons like these actually. Thank God my parents are conservative.
It's not a chain. It's a naming coincidence. There is only one restaurant that should suffer the consequences of this owners intolerance, the one in Lexington VA. The rest have nothing to do with that.
Personally, I would call 911. Why, because all calls are recorded and public info. Put your phone on speaker and they can hear the bigoted restaurant owner or protestor. Have your friend record the event at the same time. You’ll get local attention or better.
Calling police precinct won’t work becuse it will take some time to respond if it’s not a critical situation. Getting a police report is less useful that a 911 recorded call.
I agree with the progressive position that service can be denied based on mortality and political philosophy.
Husband and son have forfeited their man cards. And the internet is forever.
Husband already is and son is growing up to be a Pu$$y.
Photoshop family wearing pussyhats to wearing rectal hats as family has their heads up their butts.
If Sarah had tried that there would be non-stop media outrage about how she exploited public resources to intimidate a poor liberal restaurateur.
It's called two birds with one stone...
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“In Lexington – a spot of blue in a sea of red that sided with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election by a 2-1 margin – most local business owners sided with The Red Hen co-owner Stephanie Wilkinson giving a brusque reception to Sanders.”
So to those Freepers who said Lexington was “RED,” looks like that while the county where it’s located may be RED, Lexington definitely isn’t. So let’s let the RATS support “this little Blue enclave” with their bucks! As an aside, isn’t this how the NYC Marxists operate, roll into a nice little conservative town and turn it into one of their “infamous $hitholes!”
>>The FBI needs to look into ALL threats ... every last of of em.
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Have they looked into all of the vile attacks on Deplorables from the 2016 rallies? I bet they haven’t and won’t. And they won’t pursue these latest crimes either.
Since Ovomit packed the DOJ, State Dept, & Intelligence Agencies with Marxist activist thugs, I would venture to say some FBI staff are among those who commit these acts.
I suspect that eventually, if justice isn’t forthcoming, the Deplorables will get it themselves.
Of course not, Sarah Sanders is white. If she were black, this never would have happened.
Black Trump supporter attacked at Cheesecake Factory over MAGA hat: report
5 times New York Times writer Charles Blow belittled black Trump supporters
Video - 10 Hours Walking in NYC as a BLACK Trump Supporter
(for example)
I think the hammer and sickle was a photoshop of one of the originals.
Yes, I’ll leave right after I go to Toilet. Oh and give me a glass of water, please.
I can't help thinking similar things. I wouldn't be surprised if much of these calls to other Red Hens are from leftists and trolls pretending to be uninformed conservatives.
(I wouldn't be surprised if news articles like this are more numerous and more promoted than their equivalents if the politics were reversed. Just imagine our friends in the media promoting the idea of "progressives" who apparently can't tell the difference between restaurants with the same name.)
If Sarah Sanders were black she never would have been kicked out of the restaurant by a liberal. Shades of a 1950s Montgomery lunch counter (for example)
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