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'Journalists' Attack Sarah Sanders for Revealing She Was Kicked Out of Restaurant

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As you’ve no doubt heard by now, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders got kicked out of a Washington-area restaurant on Friday. Not for doing anything wrong, mind you, but simply for being Sarah Sanders.

“I would have done the same thing again,” Stephanie Wilkinson, owner of the Red Hen in Lexington, Virginia, told The Washington Post.

“We just felt there are moments in time when people need to live their convictions. This appeared to be one.”

Brennan Gilmore, an activist with a liberal group called Clean Virginia, blasted out the news of the incident in an early-morning Twitter post on Saturday, after a restaurant employee went on Facebook to announce that the Red Hen had kicked out Sanders and her party.

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Apparently, just weeks after the Masterpiece Cake decision prompted outrage among liberals, not serving people out of moral conviction is totally okay. Sanders posted a note about it on Twitter, and we figured that was probably that, apart from the all-too-predictable, ginned-up media outrage.

Of course, that wasn’t the end of it. As Twitchy documented, a lot of people with the vaunted blue check by their name thought it was completely inappropriate for Sanders to even make note of being kicked out of a restaurant for her political beliefs, apparently thinking that the only correct response was for her to go home with her tail between her legs.

They included such alleged “journalists” as Matt Fuller of the unfailingly liberal Huffington post. These “journalists” pretended it was Sanders who broke the news about the incident, completely ignoring the fact that her tweet was only giving her side to a story that the Red Hen had already publicized:

Robert Maguire of Open Secrets DC decided to weigh in, as well.

Ricky Gervais, a washed-up comedian trying to hold onto some measure of relevance, decided to take the “journalists'” side, too.

(Well, considering that she was kicked out because of her official capacity, I don’t see why attacking the restaurant in her official capacity is all that bad.)

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Several Twitter users stood up and pointed out that the story had already gone viral before Sanders made her case on Twitter.

Another user noted the hypocrisy of the entire story.

So, the hypocrisy of the left is showing, again — and “journalists” are leading the way, again.

Do you think this story is being distorted to blame Sanders?

But when the smoke all clears, the Red Hen’s moment in the sun is right about up and, given the long memory of those who have been told they aren’t wanted by the restaurant, those self-righteous employees and owners are no doubt going to have some hard times ahead.

Alas, they have no one to blame but themselves if they do.

They better hope their “journalist” friends tip well.

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C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he's written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014.
C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he's written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014. Aside from politics, he enjoys spending time with his wife, literature (especially British comic novels and modern Japanese lit), indie rock, coffee, Formula One and football (of both American and world varieties).
Birthplace
Morristown, New Jersey
Education
Catholic University of America
Languages Spoken
English, Spanish
Topics of Expertise
American Politics, World Politics, Culture




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