FrontPage Magazine names Sarah Huckabee Sanders their 2018 ‘Warrior Person of the Year’
December 30, 2018
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If the mainstream media is “the enemy of the people,” then White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the president’s field general, facing off against an army of reporter-activists in battle after bloodless battle.
And against all odds, she’s winning the war for the hearts and minds of her fellow Americans. For this reason, FrontPage Magazine has namedSanders their 2018 “Warrior Person of the Year.”
The highest honor
The communications director is finally receiving some well-deserved recognition for her thankless and challenging role as President Donald Trump’s spokesperson. Since she joined the Trump administration in the summer of 2017, Sanders has skillfully and professionally managed a hostile pool of reporters, turning aside threats and intimidation while artfully communicating the president’s plan.
In fact, “leftist harassment of Sanders has become so severe that she has become the first press secretary to require [S]ecret [S]ervice protection, including at her home,” Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, said, lauding the press secretary’s accomplishments in Frontpage Magazine’s official Person of the Year announcement.
Sanders herself discussed this unyielding harassment during a back-and-forth with CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta, who tried unsuccessfully in August to get Sanders to contradict the president’s position that the “fake news” media are the enemy of the American people.
“It’s ironic Jim, that not only you and the media attack the president for his rhetoric when they frequently lowered the level of conversation in this country. Repeatedly, the media restarts personal attacks without any content other than to incite anger,” Sanders told Acosta. “The media has attacked me personally on a number of occasions, including at your own network; said I should be harassed as a life sentence. That I should be choked.”
Taking the heat
“Look, we all get put through the wringer, we all get put through the meat grinder in this town,” was the best response that Mr. Acosta could muster to explain the poor state of his profession. But few — if any — Washington journalists can claim to experience the abuse that Sanders regularly endures.
“How do you resist the temptation to run up and wring her neck?” MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace once asked another reporter during a live broadcast.
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Also on MSNBC, The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin said that Sanders doesn’t deserve to “go through life unscathed,” and “has no right to live a life of no fuss, no muss, after lying to the press, after inciting against the press. These people should be made uncomfortable,” she declared.
White House wrecking ball
But Sanders isn’t deserving of FrontPage Magazine’s praise simply because of the punishment and violent rhetoric she has withstood from a deranged mainstream press. Indeed, the press secretary has successfully absorbed this abuse and refocused it back toward her media critics in the form of intelligent and meaningful policy debate.
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“No matter what the media throws at her, from insults to death threats, Sarah Huckabee Sanders stays focused and remains on message,” Greenfield wrote. “The interruptions, tantrums and yelling by the media mob have yet to rattle her.”
Sanders’ no-nonsense approach to politics and communications has earned her the nickname “Trump’s battering ram” from the liberal New Yorker, a description to which Greenfield takes exception.
“Sarah Huckabee Sanders isn’t a battering ram,” he argued. “She’s a fortress. She takes a stand and makes it clear that she won’t be moved.”
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Unfortunately, other media outlets, with their insatiable lust for demonizing the president, aren’t likely to crown Sanders with similar honors any time soon. TIME magazine’s iconic “Person of the Year” shortlist was recently revealed, and Sanders didn’t make the cut.
That honor is most likely going to be reserved for the “separated families” at the U.S. southern border, uncorroborated sexual assault accuser Christine Blasey Ford, or journalist and Muslim Brotherhood murder victim Jamal Khashoggi. Ironically, each of these potential awardees have benefited from sympathetic news coverage from the liberal mainstream press — the same reporters who regularly jockey to besmirch Sanders and undermine the Trump administration.
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