Sarah Huckabee Sanders Proves How Clueless She Is While Explaining Historical Leadership
November 2, 2017
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as posted by the channelMajority Report Contributor Michael Brooks is hosting the show for Sam Seder today. In this clip, we look at Sarah Huckabee Sanders' defense of John Kelly's confederacy comments. And yet again, Sanders proves that she's just as lost as Sean Spicer was.
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---Sarah Huckabee Sanders knew she would be asked Tuesday about John Kelly's controversial comments about how Robert E. Lee was an “honorable man” and how the Civil War was the result of a lack of “compromise.” And she came prepared for the question.
“Look: All of our leaders have flaws,” Sanders began, reading from notes. “Washington, Jefferson, JFK, Roosevelt, Kennedy. That doesn't diminish their contributions to our country. It certainly can't erase them from our history. And General Kelly was simply making the point that just because history isn't perfect doesn't mean it's not our history.”
This argument — or some variation of it — is at the heart of basically all cases for commemorating the Confederacy. But Sanders's version doesn't really hold water.
On its surface, it makes perfect sense. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both owned slaves, after all, so why would we single out Robert E. Lee for leading the South in a war over that same right? Kennedy, whom Sanders mentioned twice in the span of three names, had his personal sins. Teddy Roosevelt is remembered by some as a warmonger.---
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