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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou Can't Bully These Motherfuckers
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/you-cant-bully-these-motherfuckers-1825648283When I write that CNN politics writer Chris Cillizza is the rankest assbrain in the Western Hemisphere, I am not being nice to him. When I write that God clowned Chris Cillizza before he was born by making him Chris Cillizza instead of a shit-eating maggot, I am being unkind. When I say that Chris Cillizza himself is the punchline to the cruelest work of absurdist comedy in the history of the fucking universe, and that the title of that work is On the Origin of Species, I am being mean. Likewise it probably is downright nasty for me to write that on the whole American society would benefit greatly by Chris Cillizza being fired out of a large cannon into an even larger cliff face. But I am not bullying Chris Cillizza. Categorically, I cannot do that.
Wolfs treatment of Sanders was bullying, Cillizza wrote on CNNs website yesterday, because he is an obsequious slimeball even more slovenly with language than his forebears were in the dispensation of their chromosomes. Hes referring to the standup set Michelle Wolf, a comedian, performed at the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday night, somewhat at the expense of White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a brazen, knowing, and hugely powerful enemy of the free press and deceiver of the public by trade. As youve surely read by now, Wolf joked that Sanderss makeupher perfect smoky eyeis made of the ashes of the facts she burns.
Thats about as gentle a way as anyone could come up with to lampoon the single most relevant fact about Sanders and what brought her to a station in life that would make her a reasonable subject of lines in a White House Correspondents Dinner monologue in the first place. A frank and honest description of who she is and what she does would be much more harsh: Every day, Sarah Huckabee Sanders plants herself, by choice, between the public and the facts of whats being done at the very highest levels of American executive power, and does her damnedest to break and delegitimize the means by which the two are brought together. She is one of the most visible and powerful people in American civic life, and she uses her visibility and powershe chooses to use her visibility and powerto confuse the public and degrade its grasp on the truth, rather than to inform or empower or serve it. Her willingness to do this on behalf of Donald Trump, day after day, and the unmistakable teeth-gnashing relish with which she does it, are the substance of her power, and the reason why anybody knows who the fuck she is at all. What history will remember about Sanders is that she is the scum of the fucking earth, and not the jokey means by which one comedian pointed out this inarguable factand thats only if the senile rageaholic pissbaby moron on whose behalf she shames herself on television every day doesnt annihilate the human race, first.
Wolfs treatment of Sanders was bullying, Cillizza wrote on CNNs website yesterday, because he is an obsequious slimeball even more slovenly with language than his forebears were in the dispensation of their chromosomes. Hes referring to the standup set Michelle Wolf, a comedian, performed at the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday night, somewhat at the expense of White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a brazen, knowing, and hugely powerful enemy of the free press and deceiver of the public by trade. As youve surely read by now, Wolf joked that Sanderss makeupher perfect smoky eyeis made of the ashes of the facts she burns.
Thats about as gentle a way as anyone could come up with to lampoon the single most relevant fact about Sanders and what brought her to a station in life that would make her a reasonable subject of lines in a White House Correspondents Dinner monologue in the first place. A frank and honest description of who she is and what she does would be much more harsh: Every day, Sarah Huckabee Sanders plants herself, by choice, between the public and the facts of whats being done at the very highest levels of American executive power, and does her damnedest to break and delegitimize the means by which the two are brought together. She is one of the most visible and powerful people in American civic life, and she uses her visibility and powershe chooses to use her visibility and powerto confuse the public and degrade its grasp on the truth, rather than to inform or empower or serve it. Her willingness to do this on behalf of Donald Trump, day after day, and the unmistakable teeth-gnashing relish with which she does it, are the substance of her power, and the reason why anybody knows who the fuck she is at all. What history will remember about Sanders is that she is the scum of the fucking earth, and not the jokey means by which one comedian pointed out this inarguable factand thats only if the senile rageaholic pissbaby moron on whose behalf she shames herself on television every day doesnt annihilate the human race, first.
Loved this. Go read it to the end
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You Can't Bully These Motherfuckers (Original Post)
SidDithers
Apr 2018
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dalton99a
(81,526 posts)1. It is a must read
BootinUp
(47,165 posts)3. Great find. Thanks.
mcar
(42,334 posts)4. Cillizza is a tool
I'm glad he and his ilk are being called out.
Cha
(297,323 posts)5. Wow! Bravo Albert Burneko!
"... White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a brazen, knowing, and hugely powerful enemy of the free press and deceiver of the public by trade."
Here's another one..
by Paul Blest
The Media Fills Its Diaper Over Michelle Wolf's Sarah Huckabee Sanders Joke
https://splinternews.com/the-media-fills-its-diaper-over-michelle-wolfs-sarah-hu-1825641885
Mahalo, Sid
Here's another one..
by Paul Blest
The Media Fills Its Diaper Over Michelle Wolf's Sarah Huckabee Sanders Joke
https://splinternews.com/the-media-fills-its-diaper-over-michelle-wolfs-sarah-hu-1825641885
Mahalo, Sid
VOX
(22,976 posts)6. Best written piece yet on the R's latest mock-outrage fest.
Thanks, Sid.
brer cat
(24,578 posts)7. Made my day!
Thanks, Sid.
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)8. K&R
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)9. Kick and Reced!
Different Drummer
(7,622 posts)10. K/R and bookmarked. n/t
ismnotwasm
(41,992 posts)11. Dear GOD that was satisfying