LOL.
Now we have anti-gun advocate Shannon Watts attacking the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman and MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski as “fake news” for daring to say the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was mean to White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders:
This is fake news spread by Maggie Haberman. Michelle Wolf said, “Sarah Sanders burns facts and uses the ashes to create her perfect smokey eyes.” That is hardly an ad hominem attack. #whcd https://t.co/U6B5ymOw6r
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) April 29, 2018
Watts was responding to this tweet from Brezinski:
Watching a wife and mother be humiliated on national television for her looks is deplorable. I have experienced insults about my appearance from the president. All women have a duty to unite when these attacks happen and the WHCA owes Sarah an apology.
— Mika Brzezinski (@morningmika) April 29, 2018
And as we told you earlier, this tweet from Haberman:
That @PressSec sat and absorbed intense criticism of her physical appearance, her job performance, and so forth, instead of walking out, on national television, was impressive.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 29, 2018
Comedian Michelle Wolf continued her spin that her jokes about Sanders’ looks were really not about her looks:
Why are you guys making this about Sarah’s looks? I said she burns facts and uses the ash to create a *perfect* smoky eye. I complimented her eye makeup and her ingenuity of materials. https://t.co/slII9TYdYx
— Michelle Wolf (@michelleisawolf) April 29, 2018
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It was a compliment?
The gaslighting continues.
She was actually ***complimenting*** her, dontcha know. https://t.co/N30V1dCn5h— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) April 29, 2018
OK. But what about comparing Sanders to a “softball coach” or Aunt Lydia from “Handmaid’s Tale”?
Here’s my big problem w/ @michelleisawolf & her defenders. They won’t even admit the jokes mocked @PressSec’s looks (calling her Aunt Lydia from Handmaid’s Tale, a lesbian softball coach reference, mocking her makeup, etc.). Defend the jokes — but don’t be a coward & gaslight me. pic.twitter.com/NPHFn0AS2V
— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) April 29, 2018
The implication on “softball coach” was pretty clear. From LGBTQ news reporter Mary Emily O’Hara:
I could have done without the joke about @PressSec being a softball coach. Michelle Wolf stopped just short of calling her “dykey.”
— Mary Emily O'Hara (@MaryEmilyOHara) April 29, 2018
Of note, Wolf was mocking Sanders weeks before last night’s dinner:
Yes, the Aunt Lydia "joke" was clearly about her looks. If you want to be "cutting edge," you shouldn't become a coward. Own it. (She started before the dinner, btw: “I’m just excited Sarah finally gets to go to prom.” https://t.co/9L1WYJUJTI) https://t.co/eI989BSHY5
— Kelly Jane Torrance (@KJTorrance) April 29, 2018
Game over and not “fake news.” At. All.
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It's still true: Watch Sarah Huckabee Sanders foreshadow this happening one year ago https://t.co/KBKFnZUGxh
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 29, 2018
Kumail Nanjiani gives Maggie Haberman journalism advice in hilarious back-and-forth on Sarah Sanders https://t.co/bk7gSfJmPl
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 29, 2018
Well said! It only takes James Woods one tweet to PERFECTLY praise Sarah Sanders and RIP Michelle Wolf https://t.co/tvDhetzHiZ
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 29, 2018