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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSarah Sanders: Valuing life is 'what sets America apart from every other country'
Source: Washington Post
By Philip Bump
January 6 at 1:16 PM
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Sanders appeared on Fox News Sunday, where Wallace pressed her on the ongoing government shutdown. Normally, the most newsworthy part of the conversation would have been Wallaces successful prosecution of Sanderss assertions about the threat posed by terrorists crossing the U.S. border with Mexico. But Sanders, perhaps because shes out of practice in dealing with challenging reporters given the recent infrequency of White House news briefings made another comment that deserves some attention.
As the shutdown continues, Wallace pointed out to Sanders that there would be continuing and accelerating negative effects for those government workers who arent being paid. Does President Trump think this is worth the border wall fight? Wallace asked.
The president certainly doesnt want any of those things to happen, Sanders replied, adding that Trump also didnt want to have to call widows of police officers killed by immigrants who are in the country illegally, as he did last week.
This shouldnt happen in this country, particularly when we have things that we know can help prevent it, Sanders said. Every life thats what sets America apart from every other country; we value life. That is what makes us unique.
This argument for American exceptionalism is obviously remarkable. Its also selective; there have been any number of other lamentable deaths in the United States that the administration has not determined to warrant the sort of attention that Trump is granting to the wall.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/06/sarah-sanders-valuing-life-is-what-sets-america-apart-every-other-country/
dalton99a
(81,569 posts)Get back to me, Sarah Suckabee, when you're ready to fight for single-payer/Medicare for All.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,829 posts)spanone
(135,862 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)I dare her
underpants
(182,868 posts)But elsewhere, King has indicated that when he is talking about Western civilization he is talking about white people. Rising to bait cast by the politics analyst Charlie Pierce in a 2016 TV interview, King said, This old white people business does get a little tired, Charlie. Id ask you to go back through history and figure out, where are these contributions that have been made by these other categories of people that youre talking about, where did any other subgroup of people contribute more to civilization?
Than white people? TV host Chris Hayes asks.
Than, than Western civilization itself, King replies. Its rooted in Western Europe, Eastern Europe and the United States of America and every place where the footprint of Christianity settled the world. Thats all of Western civilization.
The comments, Beebe said, I mean theyre all over the place all uneducated immigrants smuggle drugs, black people could afford abortions if they stopped buying iPhones, no group has done better for the country than the white people hes so openly racist, and I find that very abhorrent.
Vinca
(50,302 posts)Where do all the criminal, immigrant, cop killers get their guns????? Come to think of it, there have been a whole lot of cops shot since Don took office and I doubt each and every one was by an undocumented immigrant. How many people overall have been killed by "immigrants in the country illegally" vs. people who have been killed by idiot American citizens who are too dimwitted, foolish, drunk, stoned or nuts to be able to responsibly own a gun? What a foolish pile of crap for her to push.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Yavin4
(35,445 posts)That America or some other mulitverse America?
dawg day
(7,947 posts)Like her father, ill-educated, uninformed, and yet somehow entirely arrogant in her stupidity.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)rgbecker
(4,834 posts)The women is from another Planet in a far distant solar system. She is getting lessons from Kellyann Conway and is doing poorly. A few more months and she'll be sent back, I'm sure....I hope anyway.