Another example of the breakdown of respect for women in Trudeau's Canada.
The Bizarre Reaction to the WHCD Reveals We're in Deeper Trouble Than We Thought
Sarah Huckabee Sanders lies to reporters. Reporters should be upset about that, not her eye makeup.
This morning in Kabul, at least nine journalists, including famed Agence France-Presse photographer Shah Marai, were among the 31 people killed in a suicide attack.
They were doing work that is crucial but often ignored, in a part of the world pocked by violence and a 17-year-long war led by the United States. Last year, 81 journalists were killed, and 250 imprisoned around the world.
In Kenya, where I live, the government instituted a media blackout earlier this year and intimidated and censored journalists in an effort to block the public from viewing an opposition leader’s event. Hungary’s antidemocratic Prime Minister Viktor Orban has made attacks on the media central to his broader campaign of fascism, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia. Turkey, one a vibrant democracy, is jailing journalists in record numbers; China and Egypt also boast significant numbers of journalists behind bars.
And in the United States, our own president has attacked reporters and newspapers, calling the news media "the enemy of the American people" and reporters "disgusting" and "scum."
Reporters: Sarah Huckabee Sanders lies to you.
Flint still doesn’t have clean water. That line was in the same speech as the one that mentioned eye shadow and Aunt Lydia. Only one of those things is truly offensive, and it didn’t seem to register on the list of outrages felt by members of the White House Press Corps. There are wives and mothers in Flint, too – if Michelle Wolf talks about their eye makeup, will we finally care about them?
Reporters should make the powerful very uncomfortable. Their obligation is to reveal the unvarnished truth, no matter how awkward the facts are or ill-mannered one seems for delivering them.
Luckily, someone at the White House Correspondents Dinner did that. It just wasn’t any of the journalists.
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a20102293/whcd-michelle-wolf-sarah-huckabee-sanders/
I attended the WHCD last night. Donald Trump has so poisoned the atmosphere by attacking the disabled, gold star parents, Muslims, Mexicans, Blacks, women, the press, the rule of law that a comedian who simply tells the truth is offensive? She’s joking. He’s not. - Rob Reiner.