{"id":31097,"date":"2018-07-18T23:56:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T23:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31097"},"modified":"2018-07-18T23:56:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T23:56:42","slug":"wh-press-flack-redefines-rhetorical-elusiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31097","title":{"rendered":"WH press flack redefines rhetorical elusiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am going to offer a tip of the hat — sort of<\/em> — to Sarah Huckabee Sanders.<\/p>\n

The White House press secretary is either (a) exceedingly quick on her feet or (b) gets a thorough briefing from other West Wing staffers on how to answer direct questions.<\/p>\n

Sanders got a question<\/a> today about Donald J. Trump’s answer when he was asked by a reporter whether he still thought Russia posed a threat to our electoral system, as it did in attacking it during the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n

The president said “no.” He said Russia did not pose a threat.<\/p>\n

Sanders got the question at the White House press briefing: Did the president really mean to say Russia was not trying to interfere in our midterm election?<\/p>\n

She said the “no” response to the question was the president’s way of saying “no more questions” from the media.<\/p>\n

Isn’t that clever? Slick? Cagey?<\/p>\n

It’s also untrue.<\/p>\n

Sanders trotted out that amazing response to chief of staff John Kelly’s visible body language while Trump — at the NATO meeting in Brussels — was scolding the Germans over their supposedly being under the “total control” of Russia. A reporter asked her about Kelly’s reaction. She said he was angry because he wanted a full breakfast, but instead got only “pastry and cheese.”<\/p>\n

That, dear reader, is hilarious.<\/em><\/p>\n

Except that I ain’t laughing. Neither should you. It’s deceptive. She’s lying for her boss.<\/p>\n\n

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I am going to offer a tip of the hat — sort of — to Sarah Huckabee Sanders. The White House press secretary is either (a) exceedingly quick on her feet or (b) gets a thorough briefing from other West Wing staffers on how to answer direct questions. Sanders got a question today about Donald … Continue reading WH press flack redefines rhetorical elusiveness<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1424,6868,7162,7207,5241],"class_list":["post-31097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-john-kelly","tag-russian-meddling","tag-sarah-huckabee-sanders","tag-wh-press-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31100,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31097\/revisions\/31100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}