Posted on 08/02/2018 12:35:54 PM PDT by Red Badger
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders visbly upset some journalists during a briefing on Thursday when she complained about physical dangers she has faced in her job and her unprecedented need for Secret Service protection, and blamed the reporters in the room for causing it.
Challenging her directly, one reporter responded: 'Tell that to the five dead journalists in Maryland.'
On June 28 a gunman stormed the newsroom at the Annapolis Capital newspaper and shot dead John McNamara, Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, Wendi Winters and Rebecca Smith.
Another journalist at the White House Thursday griped afterward: 'She’s going to get us killed!'
Hours earlier Ivanka Trump had expressed disagreement with the President Donald Trump's repeated claim that the political media are 'the enemy of the people.'
'I have certainly received my fair share of reporting on me personally that I know not to be fully accurate,' the first daughter said during an event convened by the Axios news website, 'so I have some sensitivity around why people have concerns and gripe, especially when they sort of feel targeted.'
'But no, I do not feel that the media is the enemy of the people.'
When a CNN correspondent asked Sanders if she would follow suit, she deflected the question.
The president most recently used the incendiary phrase four days ago, in a tweet about his reported conversation with New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger.
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My apologies then. I misunderstood what you had written.
Yes, you sure did. I have no idea how you got that.
If you weren’t such a gutless inarticulate coward this could have been cleared up a long time ago. You’d rather sling an accusation and then run away from it though.
I was wrong. I have no excuse and you are right regarding how I behaved in this instance. I truly am sorry to have cast unjust accusations at you.
PS. If you want I will certainly ask those posts to be removed.
No, not necessary. Thank you for your recognition of the problem. I hope you give the next FReeper the benefit of the doubt and try to clarify your position, when asked to.
Thanks again!
I will. I’ll also stick to only posting when my brain is fully functioning to avoid crass assumptions against good people. Have a very good night.
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