Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Via Wikipedia/government photo.
As you are surly aware of, the White House Correspondents' Dinner happened last night and once again President Trump skipped it. Given how horribly White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was treated it seems pretty obvious why. The comedian who attacked her, who I am not going to name, went pretty low, attacking Sanders for her appearance and comparing her to an unattractive person on the Handmaiden's Tale tv show.
This is only notable for a few reasons:
1. Sarah Huckabee Sanders isn't unattractive. She's not a knockout or anything but for a woman in her thirties she looks just fine. At worst she's average. More importantly she's well dressed and is very good at her job. Her looks don't matter anyways, but comparing her to some old school marm looking character (I haven't watched the show) is pretty stupid. Plus the woman that was attacking her wasn't in a position to attack her on looks since she is just average looking herself and will probably get some harsh criticism her way as well. The whole thing is stupid.
2. There is a huge amount of hypocrisy here. Of course some attacks were going to happen anyways given the nature of the event, and even then I don't know that this crossed the line between joke and attack. The problem is that the left has been lecturing everyone for years that the worst thing you can do is attack a woman for her appearance. And that's what happened here. Either it's ok to do it all the time or it isn't ok when it's someone liberals don't like. To their credit there are a few people on the left that are calling this over the line, so at least they aren't being hypocritical.
3. Donald Trump was right to skip this event. If there is one thing this country is saturated with right now, it's unfunny comedians attacking President Trump. Trump would gain nothing by showing up and would get into the news for all the wrong reasons. He's actually doing pretty well right now with the North Korea deal looming, the economy rolling and the tax cuts being popular, there is no reason to give the reigns of power over to people that will do everything in their power to cut him down. Having another rally was a much better use of his time.
Speaking of better uses of time, that's all I am going to spend on this story. It was pretty dumb, but so is the White House Correspondents' Dinner. I honestly don't know why they even have it and even when the President showed up I thought it was undignified, especially when it has been a GOP president...
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