On Thursday, noting that CNN had targeted the American troops in Iraq who asked President Trump to sign their “Make America Great Again” hats or their embroidered patches reading “Trump 2020,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders fired back on Twitter: “CNN will attack anyone who supports President Trump, including the brave men and women of our military who fight everyday to protect our freedom.”
As The Daily Wire reported:
The network discussed whether the service members might have violated Department of Defense guidelines against partisan political activities, and later implied on its website that the troops had indeed violated the rules. But CNN left out a key part of the guidelines when they quoted them …
CNN noted that the Department of Defense guidelines state: “active duty personnel may not engage in partisan political activities and all military personnel should avoid the inference that their political activities imply or appear to imply DoD sponsorship, approval, or endorsement of a political candidate, campaign, or cause.”
But CNN left out from the guidelines: “Active duty members may, however, express their personal opinions on political candidates and issues, make monetary contributions to a political campaign or organization, and attend political events as a spectator when not in uniform.”
Sanders has never been shy about going after CNN when she felt the network had acted inappropriately. In late November 2017, after CNN told Politico it would boycott the annual White House Christmas party for the media, Sanders tweeted, “Christmas comes early! Finally, good news from @CNN.”
In January 2018, Sanders flattened CNN’s Jim Acosta, who asked if President Trump’s early morning tweets were influenced by him watching Fox News. Acosta began, “There have been folks out there who have said, ‘You know there’s a cause and effect, he watches something on Fox & Friends, and then he tweets about it.’ Is that what happened this morning and does that go on?”
Sanders replied, “I’m sure you’re disappointed he’s not watching CNN.”
Acosta tried matching wits, saying, “I think he watches a lot of CNN, if you don’t mind me saying.”
Sanders finished him: “I don’t think that’s true, or your numbers would be higher.”
Two months later, Acosta, frustrated that Sanders had not called on him for three consecutive briefings, shouted at her: “Sarah, can I ask a question? Sarah, that’s the third briefing you’ve not taken a question from CNN. Do you expect the Justice Department to enforce all subpoenas, Sarah?”
Acosta then tweeted: “Third press briefing in a row that @PressSec did not take a question from CNN. #courage.”
Sanders fired back on Twitter: “Courage isn’t taking “’ question from CNN,’ Jim. Courage is combat veterans Sgt. Peck and Staff Sgt. Dwyer – the two heroes at the briefing. #itsnotaboutyou”
Three months later, interviewed by CNN’s Chris Cuomo, Sanders took no prisoners in telling him how she felt about CNN’s coverage, saying:
I wish that we spent a lot less time focused on things the American people don’t care about. I wish we spent a lot less time talking about this witch hunt and that we talked about things that impact everyday Americans. I wish we spent a lot more time talking about the economy. I wish that your network had spent a lot more time today covering a very important piece of legislation that the president signed when he spent a good bit of time this afternoon talking about the importance of Veterans Choice Act that he signed into law today. And your network didn’t even take that. I wish those were the things that we spent time talking about that.
Later in the interview, she asserted:
What I think is important to remember is that you guys get to ask the questions, but you can’t always complain about the answers. You constantly ask the same question over and over and over again and expect different answers and then get mad when the answers don’t change. … Unfortunately, you guys quit reporting the news. When I can read a news story and I have no idea what side of the story the reporter is on, that’s a good news story. You’ll be hard-pressed to find a lot of news that looks like that.
source: dailywire.com
When Obama embraced homosexual military members by authorizing them to march in uniform in a gay pride parade, that was intentional political grandstanding. Our troops cheering their Commander-in-Chief does not reflect the wholesale partisanship displayed by Leftists at every level of government authority.
These soldiers are not members of the Deep State and will not be deployed against the American people, unlike the Brown Shirt Brigade envisioned by Obama.
HURRAH! HURRAH! For PRESIDENT TRUMP and a’ SPECIAL HURRAH’ FOR SARAH SANDERS! What has happened to the purveyors of the NEWS INDUSTRY? THE MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA MUST GET OUT OF BED EVERYDAY ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THEIR BEDS! THE SARCASM, THIER HATRED, THEIR LIES and misinterpretation reporting the news to the ‘COMMON FOLKS’ has stirred the pot where they are ‘NO LONGER’ ARE ACCEPTED TELLING THE TRUTH. THEY KNOW NOT THE TRUTH, IT HAS ESCAPED THEM! Is this is what is coming out of colleges today from people who selected becoming a correspondent of the news media! Perhaps we should take a good look into our colleges to see who the professors are teaching. PRESIDENT TRUMP IGS A REMARKABLE MAN SERVING OUR COUNTRY, HE SINGLE HANDILY IS BRINGING AMERICA AND THE C I T I Z E N S
OF OUR COUNTRY BACK FROM THE DOLDRUMS OF A FORMER PRESIDENT, WHO HAD 34 CZARS APPOINTED DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. THE MEDIA SHOULD OPEN THEIR EYES TO SEE THE MAJOR IMPROVEMENT THAT PRESIDENT HAS DONE IN TWO SHORT YEARS. WHY THEY BEGRUGE HIM GOES ON AS FIT THEY WISH THAT OUR COUNTRY WOULD NO LONGER EXIST. ALL I SAY IS
W A K E U P A M E R I C A, WAKE UP!
Sarah Sanders is the greatest White House spokesperson EVER.
Must of us have personally witnessed The White House dislike with CNN and how they don’t try to hide Trumps ignorance about issues, they call it out as they see it. We all know The President is a pathologist lier in Chief. I don’t see Sara Sanders impartiality either. She is a faithful cocospaniel to the president consequently she also lies.
CNN = Communist News Network
Sarah is GOOD.. Media is bad.
CNN SHOULD BE BE SHUT DOWN. FURTHERMORE THEY SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO TAKE SIDES. THEY ARE NOT GIVING US THE NEWS THEY ARE GIVING US THEIR OPINION. SHUT THEM DOWN.
TOO CNN —YOU GUTTER SCUMBAGS. SHUT YOUR UGLY MOUTHS. BEFORE SOMEONE DOES SOMETHING TO YOUR BUILDING OR WHAT EVER. YOUR UGLINESS WE THE PEOPLE FIND DISGUSTING AND IN THE LONG RUN YOU WILL SUFFER FOR IT. PEOPLE ARE NO LONG ER LISTENING YOU YOU BECAUSE IT IS THE SOME OLD ROT GUT COMING OUT OF YOU. FOR A NUMBER OF US WE WOULD NOT MIND IF YOU ALL DROPPED DEAD.
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Barbara, I totally agree with you.
Nasty, too nasty for me.
Screw you CNN and Jim Acosta…the reason no one watches your sorry assed show is because the bias you use against conservatives. It SHOWS! That’s why you rank dead last in the rankings. I can’t stand to watch such hate, divisiveness, and down right crap in my opinion. I used to believe you but my eyes are wide open now. I’ve got 4 fingers and a thumb….can you guess which one I’m holding up for you Jim Acosta?
CNN is just upset that they peddled their fake news about the President not visiting the troops for Christmas when all the time he was there with the troops. This pissed CNN off because they were caught lying again about our president. They are holding on by a thread simply because they have Trump Syndrome and no one cares about CNN and their unprofessional and unintelligent so called reporting. Screw you CNN!
Jim Acosta and CNN…you used to be believable but not anymore. People finally open their eyes and see you for what you are…hate, divisiveness, biased, and people don’t agree with you anymore…you are not believeable. All you want to do is hurt our President. You suck in my opinion…
CNN is a disgrace. CNN has drunk the left wing kool aid! It has no credibility as a news agency.
CNN is a communistic organization, bent on the destruction of the United States, lead by a corporation completely dominated by sick, mentally ill, emotionally demented homosexual, child molesters that belong in Federal Prison for Treason against the United States of America. It is a very good thing I’m not in charge of anything and that I’m a nobody, because if I were in charge I would file charges for Treason against every single employee of CNN including the owner’s for Treason. I would have them all tried in Federal court and once they were found guilty I would escort them to “dead-mans gulch”, set them on a horse, place a rope around their necks, then give the horse a swift kick and leave all CNN employees and owners hanging out there for the traitors they are and have clearly shown all of us what they are by their works and deeds. To hell with CNN, in the end they will lose, they’ve already lost so much income they are on the verge of bankruptcy. So again I shout, “TO HELL WITH CNN”.
A million thumbs-up to Sarah. Keep up the good work.
I fully agree with you bill.Thank you.Dick
President Trump is not a political candidate, he is in fact their COMMANDER IN CHIEF and as such they were merely responding to a leader that ultimately cares deeply about them as opposed to the previous administration that felt they were only good for cannon fodder.
I totally agree with you bill cnn sucks Democrats nuts