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Sarah Sanders' dishonest defense of Trump and his assault on the free press reaches a new low
NBC "News" ^ | August 3, 2018 | by Matt Simon

Posted on 08/03/2018 8:16:07 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

$180,000.

That’s how much Sarah Sanders earns a year as White House Press Secretary. She joins 23 other White House employees in that top salary bracket.

That means this is also how much she is paid to spread lies to the American people and peddle conspiracy theories on behalf of the president of the United States of America.

Sanders has had her current job for a little over a year. But it’s become increasingly clear that there are very few limits to what she will do when it comes to making excuses for her boss. Being the press secretary is a difficult job in any administration, but Sanders continues to lower the bar when it comes to falsehoods and obfuscation, in the process undermining the Bill of Rights not to mention the integrity of the Trump White House.

Simply put, Sanders is reaching a point of no return; in fact, she may have already passed it. The question she needs to ask herself is $180,000 a year worth the damage she is doing to herself, the free press, the institution of the presidency and ultimately, the country at large.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bardella; bias; cnnsucks; commiepropaganda; fakenews; journalism; kurtbardella; mattsimon; media; shs; trumpmedia
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is fake news, and a reason why I do not watch television newscasts.


41 posted on 08/03/2018 9:20:56 AM PDT by Terry L Smith (.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The MSM is promulgating the hate, rhetoric, vandalism and worse.
Of course that gives them sensational stories to write about.
Conflict of interest, aside from their political motivation.


42 posted on 08/03/2018 9:21:32 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

what a RINO


43 posted on 08/03/2018 9:25:06 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: skimbell
Vanishing = finishing

The auto correct decided that I wanted to say something else.

44 posted on 08/03/2018 9:26:49 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Let Sanders go or find another spot in the administration for her, eliminate the White House Communications office, shut down the press room, and let the media go hang. Trump is quite adept at using other forms of communication to get his message out.


45 posted on 08/03/2018 9:27:34 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Matt, you’re getting your @ss kicked every day—by a woman LOL! Take it like a man or go home and put on your skirt and cheap pearls.


46 posted on 08/03/2018 9:30:08 AM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

the free press?
WTF? We haven’t had a free press since the Bill Clinton days!The majority MSM bought into the left lock stock and barrel back then and have been towing the line since then!


47 posted on 08/03/2018 9:31:39 AM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What free press? It’s controlled by the Democratic Party.


48 posted on 08/03/2018 9:38:05 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She’s only getting $180k a year? She’s worth way more than that if you ask me.


49 posted on 08/03/2018 9:40:53 AM PDT by Roobarb321
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To: Brilliant

*We* are the free press . . . for now.


50 posted on 08/03/2018 9:41:12 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Lock. Her. Up.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I stopped reading at the first sentence, where NBC seemingly (and I am being overly gratuitous with that allowance) wants us to infer that Sarah’s salary (well worth it, IMHO) has anything to do with, well - anything.

Once again, you know they aint got nothin’ when the ad hominem attacks start.


51 posted on 08/03/2018 9:43:25 AM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity (Capitalists sign their checks on the front. Socialists sign theirs on the back.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, NBC certainly knows “dishonest”. They practce it daily.

Fake news.


52 posted on 08/03/2018 9:44:49 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (End the Mueller Gestapo now. Free the Donald.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not only does NBC lie and make up news, they censor the news for leftist purposes.

Simon, ESAD.

5.56mm


53 posted on 08/03/2018 9:50:56 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh my you poor pathetic litte losers.

YOU started a fight and now want to cry because you getting your asses kicked daily.

What a pathetic bunch of omegas.


54 posted on 08/03/2018 9:53:59 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (2016: For the first time since 1984, I voted for a Rep President all other votes were anti Dem)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nowhere in the article is any acknowledgment that the media have hyped the hatred of Trump AND his voters to hysterical levels, which has incited violence against both persons and property. Recently a list documenting hundreds of acts of violence and vandalism of an anti-Trump nature was published. I have not heard a single peep from either those in the media or the democrat party, condemning violence and vandalism. What I have heard is a continuing ratcheting up of the hate-filled rhetoric by both the media and the dems. They have made themselves the enemy of the American people.


55 posted on 08/03/2018 9:56:53 AM PDT by euram
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To: Fester Chugabrew

Sarah Sanders’ dishonest defense of Trump and his assault on the free press reaches a new low

There isn’t another low rating the press can achieve. They hit bottom years ago.


56 posted on 08/03/2018 9:58:11 AM PDT by JayAr36 (Washinton DC, District of Corruption proven daily)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Wasn't NBC the network that did that video of the chevy truck exploding from a gas tank? free press.............Pffft this press hasn't been free for decades!!
57 posted on 08/03/2018 10:13:34 AM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There was nothing in his article to actually support his claim. He simply ASSUMED the claim, in order to argue about what she should DO about it.

Instead, he dredged up some long-dead controversy about whether or not the press had something to do with Osama Bin Laden turning off his phone. The WP tried to dismiss this as “urban myth” in 2005, but in that attempt, had to acknowledge that the idea for it came from the bipartisan 9/11 commission, and nobody ever retracted those findings.

But to this “reporter”, an ambiguous “fact-check” was solid evidence that refuted a full commission report, and therefore Sanders was lying to still refer to it, even though most people still actually believe the commision’s findings.

But that is a typical liberal media thing, find SOME source that will say what you want, and then not only claim that this source is “FACT” but that it is so obvious that anybody who disagrees is in fact an enemy of the truth, and should quit or resign in disgrace.

Oddly, his article reads pretty much like “Trump is an enemy of the people, and anybody who works for him is an enemy of all that is good in the world”.

This, in an article complaining that calling someone an “enemy of the people” is the same as asking for them to be beaten or murdered. Which they also claim they would NEVER do against any trump official, even though Sanders has been so threatened that she needs secret service protection.

My feeling is that, if you don’t want someone to think you are an enemy of the people, you should stop publishing false things that are meant to mislead, confuse, and cause harm to people when they believe you.


58 posted on 08/03/2018 10:19:07 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

typical democrat ploy; accuse the opponent of doing what they have already been doing and hope like hell the American people are too stupid to see the truth


59 posted on 08/03/2018 10:23:27 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How much is NBC paying their anchors?

I say she deserves double for ‘hazard duty pay’.


60 posted on 08/03/2018 10:26:12 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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