During CNN’s State of the Union coverage, the assembled panel of leftists thought it was appropriate to mock Republican Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ story she told while giving the GOP response to Biden’s State of the Union about when she and President Donald Trump visited the troops overseas at Christmas.
Referring to the moving story Sanders told about her experience, host Anderson Cooper snarked “by the way, hasn't every president visited the troops?”
Faux conservative and co-host of the circus of clucking Hens commonly known as The View, Alyssa Farah Griffin immaturely admitted “we were all laughing” when Sanders was telling the story.
Not understanding the point of the story, Cooper remarked that “she [Sanders] seemed to be revealing it as if it was a remarkable achievement.”
Surprisingly, former Obama advisor David Axelrod didn’t criticize Sanders for relaying the story she told during her address: “I will say, it's incredibly moving. I went through the whole exercise in Afghanistan and Iraq in the same deal with the plane and the lights off and all that stuff. But you can't help but be inspired by the troops.”
“And so that is not the province of any particular President or any particular party. And anybody who goes comes back has that same sense of inspiration,” Axelrod added.
Van Jones ended by getting in a nasty potshot against Sanders’ speech claiming “she came across as mean. And she's not mean. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is not a mean person. I think she came across as mean.”
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CNN’s State of the Union
2/7/2023
11:14:48 p.m. EasternANDERSON COOPER: By the way, hasn't every president visited the troops that --
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Yeah, we were all laughing.
COOPER: She seemed to be revealing it as if it was a remarkable achievement.
DAVID AXELROD: I will say, it's incredibly moving. I went through the whole exercise in Afghanistan and Iraq in the same deal with the plane and the lights off and all that stuff. But you can't help but be inspired by the troops. And so that is not the province of any particular President or any particular party. And anybody who goes comes back has that same sense of inspiration.
VAN JONES: I thought she came across as mean. And she's not mean. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is not a mean person. I think she came across as mean. And I thought that it wasn't necessary. If she wants to help kids in Arkansas, they sure need the help. But you don’t have to put down every Democrat to stick up for kids in Arkansas. It didn't make any sense to me.
