'Journalists' Attack Sarah Sanders for Revealing She Was Kicked Out of Restaurant
As you’ve no doubt heard by now, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders got kicked out of a Washington-area restaurant on Friday. Not for doing anything wrong, mind you, but simply for being Sarah Sanders.
“I would have done the same thing again,” Stephanie Wilkinson, owner of the Red Hen in Lexington, Virginia, told The Washington Post.
“We just felt there are moments in time when people need to live their convictions. This appeared to be one.”
Brennan Gilmore, an activist with a liberal group called Clean Virginia, blasted out the news of the incident in an early-morning Twitter post on Saturday, after a restaurant employee went on Facebook to announce that the Red Hen had kicked out Sanders and her party.
https://twitter.com/brennanmgilmore/status/1010406219243311105
Apparently, just weeks after the Masterpiece Cake decision prompted outrage among liberals, not serving people out of moral conviction is totally okay. Sanders posted a note about it on Twitter, and we figured that was probably that, apart from the all-too-predictable, ginned-up media outrage.
Last night I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexington, VA to leave because I work for @POTUS and I politely left. Her actions say far more about her than about me. I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so
— Kayleigh McEnany 45 Archived (@PressSec45) June 23, 2018
Of course, that wasn’t the end of it. As Twitchy documented, a lot of people with the vaunted blue check by their name thought it was completely inappropriate for Sanders to even make note of being kicked out of a restaurant for her political beliefs, apparently thinking that the only correct response was for her to go home with her tail between her legs.
They included such alleged “journalists” as Matt Fuller of the unfailingly liberal Huffington post. These “journalists” pretended it was Sanders who broke the news about the incident, completely ignoring the fact that her tweet was only giving her side to a story that the Red Hen had already publicized:
Treating people with respect by using your government twitter account to put a private individual and restaurant on blast. https://t.co/8stf1lo8YL
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) June 23, 2018
Robert Maguire of Open Secrets DC decided to weigh in, as well.
Cool. Sarah Sanders is using her official White House Twitter account, which she uses as the official spokesperson for the President of the United States, to attack a private business https://t.co/lNXB5Pn5r4
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) June 23, 2018
Ricky Gervais, a washed-up comedian trying to hold onto some measure of relevance, decided to take the “journalists'” side, too.
I'm sure official White House accounts aren't for leaving bad restaurant reviews. https://t.co/9hXoL78tJz
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) June 23, 2018
(Well, considering that she was kicked out because of her official capacity, I don’t see why attacking the restaurant in her official capacity is all that bad.)
Several Twitter users stood up and pointed out that the story had already gone viral before Sanders made her case on Twitter.
For those who are claiming that Sarah Huckabee Sanders went out of her way to publicly blast the Red Hen this morning, you have to understand that the story was going viral *before* this tweet so she did *not* instigate the story, but is simply responding to it. https://t.co/cP6oGXjqNy
— The Darkest Timeline Numbersmuncher (@NumbersMuncher) June 23, 2018
Another user noted the hypocrisy of the entire story.
https://twitter.com/garyalan82/status/1010569195002777601
So, the hypocrisy of the left is showing, again — and “journalists” are leading the way, again.
But when the smoke all clears, the Red Hen’s moment in the sun is right about up and, given the long memory of those who have been told they aren’t wanted by the restaurant, those self-righteous employees and owners are no doubt going to have some hard times ahead.
Alas, they have no one to blame but themselves if they do.
They better hope their “journalist” friends tip well.
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