
I love you as Aunt Lydia in The Handmaid’s Tale” - and the aforementioned line about Sanders’s smoky eye, which went like this: “I actually really like Sarah. The two jokes that seemed to irk critics were her Handmaid’s Tale dig - “I have to say I’m a little starstruck. I complimented her eye makeup and her ingenuity of materials. Why are you guys making this about Sarah’s looks? I said she burns facts and uses the ash to create a *perfect* smoky eye. Wolf herself even clarified this point earlier today on Twitter. I was baffled and irritated by this particular critique of Wolf’s performance because, again, and I cannot stress this enough, Michelle Wolf did not criticize Sarah Huckabee Sanders, or any other woman, about her appearance.
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Like-minded criticisms were sounded from other corners of the political Twitterverse, causing a number of people - including New Yorker TV critic Emily Nussbaum, Kumail Nanjiani, and, less importantly, me - to express confusion followed by outrage. Watching from home, I hurt for Sarah, her husband and her children.- Mika Brzezinski April 29, 2018 Women who use their government positions to spread lies and misinformation deserve to face the same withering criticism as men. MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski - whose engagement to her Morning Joe co-host, Joe Scarborough, Wolf described in her speech as “like when a #MeToo works out” - voiced a similar concern. That sat and absorbed intense criticism of her physical appearance, her job performance, and so forth, instead of walking out, on national television, was impressive.- Maggie Haberman April 29, 2018 Maggie Haberman, the New York Times White House correspondent, weighed in with this tweet.


Oddly, however, a lot of that criticism zeroed in on something that Michelle Wolf did not actually say: a joke about Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s appearance.Īfter Wolf’s scathing, unapologetic, and often funny remarks, several prominent journalists called her out for mocking the White House press secretary because of her looks.

As soon as Michelle Wolf finished delivering her blistering White House Correspondents’ Dinner roast of the Trump administration and the members of the press that cover it, she was, not surprisingly, criticized for much of what she said.
