Date: November 23rd, 2017 10:38 AM
Author: abusive psychic den
When White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders asked the press corps Monday to preface their daily briefing questions with a statement of thankfulness, reporters obliged.
Or, should we say, obeyed.
For this, no doubt, Sanders was grateful.
Yet again, she controlled the crowd, though this time by candy-coating her usual condescension with faux fellowship.
I’m thankful I wasn’t in the room.
My first impulse when someone asks me to share is to not-share. This isn’t because I’m not a sharing person — you can have my cake and eat it, too — but because sharing, like charity, should be voluntary. For a press secretary to require professional journalists to essentially beg for their supper, surrendering their adversarial posture like a dog commanded to Drop The Bone, is an infantilizing tactic. The effect is to neutralize the opposition.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-built-a-wall-her-name-is-sarah/2017/11/21/e89a5fe4-cee9-11e7-a1a3-0d1e45a6de3d_story.html
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3806716&forum_id=2#34755455)