When Sarah Huckabee Sanders left the White House, I knew it would be a matter of time before she went over to Fox, so the official announcement Thursday didn’t surprise me. I think this is one of the intended trajectories for people who leave the Trump Administration. The Hollywood Reporter has more on this turn of events that is shocking to absolutely no one:
Former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has joined the Fox News Channel as a paid, on-air contributor, the network said on Thursday.
“Fox News has been the No. 1 news organization in the country for 17 years running, and I am beyond proud to join their incredible stable of on-air contributors in providing political insights and analyses,” Huckabee Sanders said in a statement.
She left the White House at the end of June. At the time, political media-industry insiders speculated to The Hollywood Reporter that she could wind up at Fox News.
“I do expect Sarah to sign up with Fox News, based on mutual interest,” a former White House official said at the time.
The network said that Huckabee Sanders will “provide political commentary and analysis across all of Fox News Media, including Fox News Channel (FNC), Fox Business Network (FBN), Fox News Digital, Fox Nation and the radio/podcast division,” starting with an appearance on the morning show Fox & Friends.
Huckabee Sanders is following in her father’s footsteps and is also the third Trump administration official (after Hope Hicks, former communications director, and Raj Shah, former deputy press secretary) to join Fox. Huckabee Sanders is great at lying, so she’ll fit right in. In a New Yorker article from March, Jennifer Rubin, a conservative columnist for The Washington Post (who is not a Trump fan) was quoted as saying of the network currently: “It’s simply a mouthpiece for the President, repeating what the President says, no matter how false or contradictory.” We all know this, no matter how much anyone in either the White House or at Fox wants to deny it. It makes complete sense that a former press secretary in this administration, who served as an official mouthpiece for the White House with reporters and the American people, would head over there.
It’s getting harder and harder for me to keep track of various administration officials’ lies. (That’s enraging and depressing to type.) In June, several outlets compiled lists of some of Huckabee Sanders’ lies. That’s even more depressing and enraging to think about: Someone in an official government capacity has a.) told so many lies that b.) it would be hard to list them all. (And, of course, she’s not the worst offender.) The prospect of Huckabee Sanders becoming governor of Arkansas scares me a lot more, though. I wonder whether she, too, will end up on Dancing with the Stars in the future.
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Ugg. Another reason not to watch.
Right?! The only surprise is that FOX didn’t make her dye her hair blond.
It’s early yet, and that was my favorite tweet about this. All so predictable.
Wait til she wears the bright pink tight dress..then it’s official
Fox news, where the meanest waitress in the waffle house goes to die…
She won’t end up on Dancing with the stars (lol) but she may become governor. Ugh.
Oh, probably.
I do have a morbid curiosity on whether or not she’s going to de-age a bit now that she’s not working with the actual white house. Studies really could/should be done on how quickly people working for this administration aged before our eyes.
And I’m not shaming her for looking old or anything – that’s perfectly fine. But she started to just genuinely look unwell.
This trick.
Fox is a great place to stick her to keep me and my friends safe and out of harms way as I never go anywhere near Fox News. I would remove the The Fox News channel button from my TV remote if I could.
It has its own button???
yes, but most people just call it the “off” button
She does not really fit the Fox News aesthetic for women, does she? I am trying to picture her with platinum blond hair.
And crotch-high skirts
“I actually really like Sarah. I think she’s very resourceful. She burns facts, and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye. Like maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s lies. It’s probably lies.”
– perpetual truth by Michelle Wolf
LOL!
I never knew how things like the holocaust could possible unfold, but then Trump and all his followers gained power, and now I realize that a good chunk of our world are just plain evil. They hide their evilness for the most part. And then when the atmosphere allows they slowly show their true colors. An eye opener for sure.
I feel exactly the same way
This so much, I’ve thought about this regularly since 2016. I now see exactly how it happens and also realize that people who would cheer on or be complicit with atrocities are all around us.
I don’t think most people are evil in that they actively wish harm on others. It’s more apathy than anything else. So long as they aren’t being directly affected, they don’t. However, when you really think about it, apathy can absolutely be a form of evil as well.
Well they surely didn’t pick her for her good looks. I wonder if they will attempt to do a makeover on her? Not much they can do with that wonky eye, though.
I have never watched Fox news. Never. Ever.
Inbreeding will do that to you….(the wonky eye)
Stop this. Good people have wonky eyes. This is insulting and mean to all of them to suggest that it’s terrible to look at and the result of inbreeding. So much for being woke feminists.
I’m usually loath to comment negatively on a woman’s looks. But in her case it is justified. I honestly think she wouldn’t look 1/2 as bad if she wasn’t a lying liar full of bs and complicit in the downfall of civilization.
The horse joins the stable. There, I thought it, I’ve said it. If she had one decent bone in her body I would say nice things about her.
Fox is the only place that would have her. In the coming years it will be overflowing with former Trumpers.
She just turned 37.
(A Friday feel-good fact…)
Holy crap, it’s true. I would have pegged her for at least my age (add 8 years) or more……..Yikes.
Damn…I’m 37. I feel pretty good about myself now.
She was horrifically good at her job. It was as if she wore a teflon suit.
She’s skilled at the Dark Arts.
she has a face for fox radio…
I won’t believe this until she denies it.
HA!!!!
It would be so much worse if she were elected governor of Arkansas (or anywhere) than if she continues with her usual alternative fact public disinformation career. Right? I know as mouthpiece she reaches many deplorables now via Fox but actually in charge of a state scares me. Like she could do some real damage to the people of whatever state she’d attempt to govern.
I’m 66 and the trump staff women make me feel very youthful looking.
Lol
Don’t they, though. KellyAnne makes me feel positively youthful.
Screw this potato face. Untalented, stupid, belligerent. Oh yeah, just like her ex-boss. Sub-par is the new mediocre. Okay.
I live in Little Rock, AR. I’m at least glad she won’t be here running for governor (at least not for now!). She’s semi-close to my age and we have many mutual friends. Her insta account is full of these girls praising her for being a “girl boss” and “killin it”. It makes me want to vomit! Especially when I see I’m friends with some of these women! Now, I’m all for powerful women of course, but not when they’re racist, bullying, dishonest and downright nasty! Her father was a terrible governor here, I literally cannot imagine how awful she would be.
On a lighter note you truly do choose the most appropriate pics on her and many others. True Talent!
“Girl boss”????? Oh Ash, I’m so sorry.