White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
Nov 02, 2017
At Monday's White House press briefing, on the very day that the first two indictments in the Robert Mueller investigation came down and a third Trump campaign adviser pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders chose to open her briefing by reading aloud a lengthy -- make that endless -- fable about reporters and the price of beer.
Ostensibly, it was intended as a clever metaphor to sell the president and GOP's alleged tax reform plan, but its real purpose may have been to sedate the press corps into submission on a busy news day. In any case, the verbal smog attack could not hide the fact that no matter how hard they try to cloud the issue the GOP plan means nothing but big tax cuts for the rich.
Watch if you dare. It's enough to drive you to drink.
\u201cHere's that whole anecdote from Sarah Huckabee-Sanders that, to my ear, sounded like an email your relative would forward you\u201d— Colin Jones (@Colin Jones) 1509386037
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Michael Winship
Michael Winship is the Schumann Senior Writing Fellow at the progressive news outlet Common Dreams, where he writes and edits political analysis and commentary. He is a Writers Guild East council member and its immediate past president and a veteran television writer and producer who has created programming for America's major PBS stations, CBS, the Discovery and Learning Channels, A&E, Turner Broadcasting, the Disney Channel, Lifetime, Sesame Workshop (formerly the Children's Television Workshop) and National Geographic, among others. In 2008, he joined his longtime friend and colleague Bill Moyers at Bill Moyers Journal on PBS and their writing collaboration has been close ever since. They share an Emmy and three Writers Guild Awards for writing excellence. Winship's television work also has been honored by the Christopher, Western Heritage, Genesis and CableACE Awards.
At Monday's White House press briefing, on the very day that the first two indictments in the Robert Mueller investigation came down and a third Trump campaign adviser pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders chose to open her briefing by reading aloud a lengthy -- make that endless -- fable about reporters and the price of beer.
Ostensibly, it was intended as a clever metaphor to sell the president and GOP's alleged tax reform plan, but its real purpose may have been to sedate the press corps into submission on a busy news day. In any case, the verbal smog attack could not hide the fact that no matter how hard they try to cloud the issue the GOP plan means nothing but big tax cuts for the rich.
Watch if you dare. It's enough to drive you to drink.
\u201cHere's that whole anecdote from Sarah Huckabee-Sanders that, to my ear, sounded like an email your relative would forward you\u201d— Colin Jones (@Colin Jones) 1509386037
Michael Winship
Michael Winship is the Schumann Senior Writing Fellow at the progressive news outlet Common Dreams, where he writes and edits political analysis and commentary. He is a Writers Guild East council member and its immediate past president and a veteran television writer and producer who has created programming for America's major PBS stations, CBS, the Discovery and Learning Channels, A&E, Turner Broadcasting, the Disney Channel, Lifetime, Sesame Workshop (formerly the Children's Television Workshop) and National Geographic, among others. In 2008, he joined his longtime friend and colleague Bill Moyers at Bill Moyers Journal on PBS and their writing collaboration has been close ever since. They share an Emmy and three Writers Guild Awards for writing excellence. Winship's television work also has been honored by the Christopher, Western Heritage, Genesis and CableACE Awards.
At Monday's White House press briefing, on the very day that the first two indictments in the Robert Mueller investigation came down and a third Trump campaign adviser pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders chose to open her briefing by reading aloud a lengthy -- make that endless -- fable about reporters and the price of beer.
Ostensibly, it was intended as a clever metaphor to sell the president and GOP's alleged tax reform plan, but its real purpose may have been to sedate the press corps into submission on a busy news day. In any case, the verbal smog attack could not hide the fact that no matter how hard they try to cloud the issue the GOP plan means nothing but big tax cuts for the rich.
Watch if you dare. It's enough to drive you to drink.
\u201cHere's that whole anecdote from Sarah Huckabee-Sanders that, to my ear, sounded like an email your relative would forward you\u201d— Colin Jones (@Colin Jones) 1509386037
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