I am hearing comments (not here I don't think) that Michelle Wolf should apologize to

[LuckyCharms]

SH sanders?

Really?

She should really apologize?

I must be living in an alternate universe.

These Republican fuckers really don't play nice, and they don't fight fair.

They get down in the mud, and they will figuratively bite off and spit out your body parts in a fight. I could site examples, but you know what I mean...I'd be preaching to the choir.

So they get just a small taste of their own medicine...and Ms. Wolf should apologize? Because she didn't "go high"? Because SH Sanders did not react as a normal human being in that situation and just laugh it off? Because she looked like she was going to burst into tears? Why? Because she was put into the same situation that she puts the media in day after day?

SH Sanders is the classic definition of a bully that starts crying after you beat the shit out of them after they have been punching you in the stomach every day for years. The entire administration is the same way. And people feel badly when a COMEDIENNE gives their own shit back to them?

Every public figure that I have ever seen be publicly roasted has taken it well. They know they are at a roast. That what roasts are for. SH Sanders knew she would get roasted, but she went to the dinner anyway...and was hurt when she got roasted.

I guess that some of this country has been gas-lighted into complete submission by Trump and his flying monkees.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

1. She has ZERO to apologize for.

Fuck every asshole who thinks she does.

[HAB911]

2. NO, she deserves the no-bell prize for comedy!

[unblock]

3. it is an authoritarian dominance play.

it has a lot to do with the fact that she's a woman who's not lining up behind donnie.

if she's not going to line up behind donnie, she needs to at least kneel before him.

oh, wait, they think kneeling is an insult.

ok, she needs to be tarred and feathered then.

or something.

[ollie10]

4. Should Trump apologize?

For many of the things he has said? Making fun of handicapped. Sexist remarks. Knocking Gold Star parents. War heroes like McCain. Knocking judges for their heritage Crapping on Meghan Kelly. Etc etc etc.

I think he should apologize.

But it makes it more difficult to argue that Trump should apologize when we are saying if it is on our side anything goes.....tribalism, you know.....the same sort of mentality the Trump cultists use to justify their blind support of Trump's excesses......they hated Hillary, we hate Trump.....is tribalism the only thing that matters, that our side can do things but not the other side......rather than what is right and what is wrong?

[SharonClark]

5. She shouldn't apologize

She should just go away.

[MaryMagdaline]

6. Sanders was pouting and frowning before Wolf said one word

This was part of the plan ... show up and act offended

[Billb93]

7. No apology

When Trump and his supporters, who swear to his lies, apologize then she can.

[Progressive dog]

8. Michelle Wolf made Sarah sad

and Sarah is chief liar for Putin's psychopathic puppet. So now the Republican propaganda machine and the Russians are working together to make poor Sarah a sympathetic character. That's a bridge too far, even for them, so it's just another bone thrown to Trump's base.

[Paladin]

9. The WHCA has weighed in with more-than-sufficient groveling and trump ass-kissing.

So much for any support from the "free press" in D.C.

[deurbano]

10. It's revolting.

[MichMary]

11. I have a bit of a different take

SHS, like her or not, was in a position of being publicly humiliated, while being unable to respond. All she could do was sit and take it.

The response from a lot of sources has been, "Well, Trump has done worse!!" Yes, but Trump wasn't there. Taking anger at Trump out on SHS is like yelling at your kid because you are mad at your spouse.

[Mr.Bill]

14. Except SHS is not a child.

She is an adult and she has chosen to make her living by enabling Trump and lying for him. She deserves everything that was said about her, and much more. She can quit her job whenever she likes and would have never taken it if she had any kind of moral grounding at all.

[luvtheGWN]

15. Sanders was there as Trump's representative

which is why she was sitting at the Head Table. Kind of nice that she had to sit there and NOT be able to respond, since she lies on behalf of Trump and cuts off (or insults) certain media types who ask her the questions she doesn't want to answer.

Michelle Wolf -- who, BTW is able to laugh at herself -- told some cold hard truths that many in the audience took a "snowflake" offence to. I'm remembering Leslie Moonves, head of CBS, who publicly stated that Trump was bad for the country, but good for CBS. His colleagues at practically every other media enterprise obviously thought the same thing. Even now, media like NPR play a 10-second newsclip of Trump saying something which is obviously a LIE, and just let it sit there in the ether without any comment/correction. It's irresponsible and harmful and no one bats an eye.

Go to Salon and read an article about Reza Aslan and how he's desperately afraid that the U.S. won't be able to recuperate from the damage this administration is doing to your country.

[maddiemom]

12. Your point is very well made.

SHS, appearance completely aside (I don't see any real insult to her, and she's open to quite a few), just begs to be called out as a snarky person who gives the impression that any normally reasonable person would dislike her within minutes of actually meeting her. She not only lies with insulting regularity, she defends those lies with an attitude that screams "BULLY". Certainly, in press briefings, she's able to really dish it out. I'd bet she was upset because her devious brain was teeming with nasty remarks that she was unable to spew out, under the circumstances.

[onecent]

13. Michelle Wolf SHOULD NOT APOLOGIZE.

If anything Trump needs to apologize to all the people he has harassed.

[HenryWallace]

16. Agreed, no apology necessary!

But can we also agree that this institution/event has outlived its usefulness (if it ever had any).

A gaudy, star studded excuse for self-congratulation; reinforcing the perception of an out-of-touch benign neglect of their important calling on the part of both the press corps and our elected representatives.

[moondust]

17. Indecency is...OKIYAR.

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The "Trump Era" will one day be known as the "Age of Public Indecency" after the tone was set by the Sleazebag in Chief. This is where attacks on "political correctness (PC)" and civility lead.