BREAKING: Huckabee Sanders Kicked Out of Restaurant

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1:18I'll tell you something that's going to get me in trouble, but I couldn't care less. And get ready to clutch your pearls. There is something more important today than the end of civilization as we know it after the inevitable nuclear holocaust. because the breaking news today on Newsweek Radio is that Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders says that she was kicked out of a restaurant. Oh, the humanity. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling. Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes. Volcanoes. The dead rising from the grave. Human sacrifice. Dogs and cats living together.

1:53Mass hysteria. Holy crap. Let's just say I'm not a fan of this Sarah Huckabee Sanders person because she was just another one of these delusional spokesmouths for the worst American of all time who happens to be our President Donald Trump. But I happen to be one of those people who believe that if you do business with the public, you do business with the public. And you should not be able to discriminate based on race or gender or politics or religion. I know politics aren't protected, but we'll get to that in just a minute. Doesn't this boil down to the gay wedding cake argument that the business owner is allowed to call the shots?

2:26I asked that question on Facebook when Newsweek posted this article. And before anybody jumps in, yes, I understand that the Supreme Court already waited on this with the gay wedding cake case and sided with the business owner. I get it. I understand the ruling. I just don't happen to agree with it. Just because a group of people in robes say that this is how things should work does not mean it's how people should treat each other in the real world. Legal doesn't always mean right. And to be clear, this wasn't some sort of cartoon villain either, refusing to serve gay people entirely. The guy in Colorado was willing to sell them anything in the store.

2:56He just didn't want to create a custom gay wedding cake that celebrated something his religion didn't recognize. Fine, whatever. The Supreme Court did not come down and say that open discrimination is now the rule, either. The ruling was narrow based on how the case was handled, so no. This isn't as simple as good guy, bad guy. But even with all of that nuance, I still land in the same place. If you open the doors to the public, you serve the public. Because the second we start slicing this up into exceptions, We're all just taking turns deciding who deserves to be treated like a customer and who doesn't.

3:28And it's stupid. Now, to be fair, conservatives, people like my colleague Josh Hammer, would argue that the cake maker is allowed to refuse service based on religious grounds. And that's different from kicking somebody out over politics because religion has legal protections that the political affiliation does not. And he would absolutely win that argument against somebody like me in a legal battle. But I don't agree with the premise either. Because once you start carving out exceptions based on religion, You're blurring the lines between church and state in ways I'm not comfortable with, and a lot of others aren't either.

3:56Again, it might be the law, and your opinions might differ. It's just not how half of us think we should treat each other. And on that side of the argument, yes, I'm probably considered a liberal on this one. Although, even here, I don't see how it's possible to enforce a business to serve everyone. Doesn't mean I have to like it. The Bleacher Report app is your destination for sports. Right now, the NBA is heating up, March Madness is here, and MLB is almost back. Every day there's a new headline, a new highlight, a new moment you've got to see for yourself. That's why I stay locked in with the Bleacher Report app.

4:29For me, it's about staying connected to my sports. I can follow the teams I care about, get real-time scores, breaking news, and highlights all in one place. Download the Bleacher Report app today so you never miss a moment. And just because the state doesn't recognize the flying spaghetti monster as an organized religion doesn't mean that Christianity, Judaism, Islam, or any other religion has any more legitimacy over this topic than a deist like myself. You could even say that politics are the religion of the statist. Arkansas Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that she was asked to leave the croissantery in Little Rock while dining last week, saying, quote, my presence made their employees feel threatened and they told us to leave, unquote.

5:09The request came after she had already been seated for more than an hour and had finished eating paid and tipped. She said that her group complied with the request and left. Well, If that doesn't just highlight the absurdity of this restaurant asking her to leave, which is just a polite way of telling her to get lost and never to come back due to her political affiliations, it took the restaurant that long to kick her out? I mean, they must have been deliberating about what to do this entire time back in the kitchen if she was able to eat. By the time they gathered the courage to evict a paying customer, Sanders was already leaving.

5:39What a bunch of clowns. Sanders should sue them for discrimination. Well, it also turns out that the restaurant has a 90-minute time limit and she was approaching that. Maybe she had gone over for all we know. Apparently, it's posted on all of the tables in this little tiny restaurant. A very boutique-y sized kind of place, which makes sense. But at least according to Sanders, that's not why they asked her to leave. They asked her to leave because they said she was making the staff uncomfortable. So let's just take it at face value, for argument's sake. Look, I might detest your politics, but I would never turn you away as a paying customer based on your politics.

6:13And that goes for somebody like Trump, too, as hard as that is to say. If you serve the public, you need to serve the public, because I refuse to be part of society if it's going to devolve into this level of tribalist nonsense any further than it already has. And that goes for any Republican establishment refusing to serve liberals. Yes, there are moments in life where you must stand your ground and refuse to participate with somebody because their toxicity is destroying your well-being and way of life. But a restaurant is not one of them. If you wouldn't stop somebody from using a public toilet because of their politics, then the same rules should apply for establishments where food is entering the body just as much as when it's leaving the body.

6:50I'm sorry. This kind of immature cancel culture identity politics bullcrap is the leftover bile that fell out of our super inflated egos. Brought on by social media. Now that anybody who wants it can get their 15 minutes of fame easily. This is why celebrity is dead. My least favorite artist of all time, Andy Warhol, said it best, that in the future everybody's going to be world famous for 15 minutes. Seriously can't stand that guy because I think his artwork was a joke, but he was right. One of those eerily prophetic lines that basically predicted social media decades before it existed. And look at what it has done to us.

7:27The same thing that fame and fortune does to destroy people's lives in Hollywood is chewing up and spitting out regular everyday Americans because we're all a bunch of spoiled Brad Kardashian-type wannabes living in McMansions, eating McDonald's, and living out our best McLives as we tell people we don't like to get out of our restaurant. This is the true enemy of the United States here. And it's incredibly easy to get caught up in the trap with this absolute monster leading our country. But people who fight monsters got to be careful that they don't become monsters themselves. Let's play devil's advocate for just a minute here.

8:01Let's say Adolf Hitler walks into a pineapple store wearing swastikas. Okay, sure. If you have to take the argument that far, I will concede that you should have the right to kick out a swastika-sporting Adolf out of your pineapple store. Is that a contradiction to my logic? Perhaps. But that's kind of the point. You're smearious. When you have to drag Adolf Hitler into a pineapple shop just to justify your argument, you've already left the planet. Yes, those edge cases exist. But they're the exception, not the rule. And if you're going to build your entire moral framework around the most extreme hypotheticals you can imagine, you're just going to end up justifying behavior that poisons everyday life.

8:38Today, the governor you don't like is being shown the door. Tomorrow, it's going to be you and I, standing there wondering when the rules flipped. That's how this works. You don't win culture wars by sharpening the blade. You just have to make sure that it cuts both ways. We're supposed to be better than this. We are better than this. We've just forgotten how to behave properly in public with each other, because the internet has absolutely fried our caveman brains that are still trying to catch up with what it did to our egos, to the point where somebody is so completely destroyed by the mere presence of somebody who thinks differently than they do, that it becomes necessary to extract the offending party from the entire situation.

9:16The only way to be revolutionary today is to be kind to your enemy. You right-wingers treat the left like your enemy, and you left-wingers do the same thing to the right. And look at where this childish fight has taken us. To the brink of World War III with a smooth-brained, lecherous con man in the White House. I know what the president can do some of this shit I'm doing. Don't hate the player. You gotta hate the game. And our collective hatred got him into the position, regardless of where any of us sit in the wide political spectrum. We're all guilty. Take some responsibility. Forgive your neighbors.

9:49And quit being such assholes to each other. That's my message for today. If you ever want things to change in this country, we cannot keep repeating the same behaviors and expecting different results from those who represent us. Yeah, have your gay cake and eat it too. Garbage in, garbage out. What are you going to do? It's Newsweek Radio. Until we can do it again, catch you next time. Bye. And we say bye-bye. Newsweek Radio is a member of the Trust Project. Russia, Russia, Russia. Russia. Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia. To the me I used to be, before texting 988. When another argument with mom felt like the end of the world and school got too stressful, I felt alone.

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