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Atticus

(15,124 posts) Mon Jun 4, 2018, 07:54 PM Jun 2018

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The White House, damn it, is a building! It does not "say" anything!

Sarah Huckabee-Sanders speaks FOR TRUMP, not "the White House". If this is not made clear in the minds of the general public, we are inviting the "I never said that; the White House did" excuse for any vile lie that Sarah chooses to spew at the press corps like projectile vomit.

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The White House, damn it, is a building! It does not "say" anything! (Original Post) Atticus Jun 2018 OP

Synecdoche (nt) JaneQPublic Jun 2018 #1

"Weasel-speak" nt Atticus Jun 2018 #3

My father was once chairman of a department at a university unblock Jun 2018 #2

Heh! demmiblue Jun 2018 #5

Now that is funny. nt Ferrets are Cool Jun 2018 #6

Whenever anyone told a friend of mine "The White House said ..." she rolled her eyes, cut them off EffieBlack Jun 2018 #4

we all know what "the Pentagon" means . . . and it also is a building DrDan Jun 2018 #7

Precisely Sherman A1 Jun 2018 #8

JaneQPublic

(7,113 posts)

1. Synecdoche (nt)

Reply to Atticus (Original post)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 07:59 PM

Jun 2018

Atticus

(15,124 posts)

3. "Weasel-speak" nt

Reply to JaneQPublic (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 08:08 PM

Jun 2018

unblock

(52,253 posts)

2. My father was once chairman of a department at a university

Reply to Atticus (Original post)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 08:00 PM

Jun 2018

As a joke, he had a pad of paper with a preprinted title "from the desk of the chair"

demmiblue

(36,865 posts)

5. Heh!

Reply to unblock (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 08:10 PM

Jun 2018

Ferrets are Cool

(21,107 posts)

6. Now that is funny. nt

Reply to unblock (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 09:00 PM

Jun 2018

EffieBlack

(14,249 posts)

4. Whenever anyone told a friend of mine "The White House said ..." she rolled her eyes, cut them off

Reply to Atticus (Original post)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 08:10 PM

Jun 2018

and said:

"The White House isn't a person. It's a building. WHO said it and how old are they?"

DrDan

(20,411 posts)

7. we all know what "the Pentagon" means . . . and it also is a building

Reply to Atticus (Original post)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 09:05 PM

Jun 2018

no reason to make a big deal out of it

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)

8. Precisely

Reply to DrDan (Reply #7)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 09:10 PM

Jun 2018

It's been done this way for years.

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