S.H.S. cherry-picks Obama tweet on North Korea to defend Trump's "destroy" rhetoric

[Miles Archer]

Sarah Sanders?Verified account
@PressSec

Presidents have always been clear to deter threats: “We could, obviously, destroy North Korea with our arsenals” -@BarackObama last year

8:42 AM - 19 Sep 2017

Link to tweet

The only issue? The quote, in context, calls for the exact opposite.

As Daily Kos reported, her supposed bipartisan endorsement for military annihilation of North Korea came from an interview Obama gave last April.

“It’s not something that lends itself to an easy solution,” Obama told CBS. “We could, obviously, destroy North Korea with our arsenals. But aside from the humanitarian costs of that, they are right next door to our vital ally, Republic of Korea.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/sarah-huckabee-sanders-insists-trumps-rocket-man-speech-was-just-like-what-obama-would-say/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. It should make you/everybody/me FURIOUS so angry you cant SEE STRAIGHT that this ignorant lying

religious dumbshit is in charge of our WH press corps.

this is MADNESS

[Miles Archer]

2. It does

Seriously, it's all right there in black and white.

Remember all of the Michelle Obama "quotes" spread by the far-right...things she never said, but were instantly believed by the Fox News crowd?

I see Sanders as neither intellectually curious nor adept enough to come up with quotes. That either got handed to her by Miller or she found it on Brietbart...perhaps in its original form, perhaps truncated, but her first responsibility was to validate it or debunk it.

She's a waste of space when it comes to Press Secretaries.

[spanone]

3. i've quit listening to her. she offers nothing. zero. zip. ziltch. nada.

[Achilleaze]

4. How devilish

To cut and paste and twist words, causing them to mean the opposite of what the speaker actually conveyed. That's some dark and evil shit going down there, especially for someone who claims to be a Christian.

[Doreen]

5. Am I the only one who thinks she always looks

like she is about to go out and eat small children?