Sarah Sanders
© Yuri Gripas/ReutersWH Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders tore into reporters on Wednesday as she fielded questions about Roseanne Barr, claiming ABC's response to the actress' incendiary tweet about former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett demonstrates the "double standard" that exists in the media.

Echoing her boss, who criticized Disney CEO Bob Iger earlier Wednesday for calling Jarrett to apologize for Barr's comments, Sanders said Trump was highlighting "the hypocrisy in the media saying the most horrible things about this president" and nobody at ABC or other networks addressing it.
"Where was Bob Iger's apology to the White House staff for Jemele Hill calling the president and anyone associated with him a white supremacist? To Christians around the world for Joy Behar calling Christianity a mental illness?

Where was the apology for Kathy Griffin going on a profane rant against the president on The View after a photo showed her holding President Trump's decapitated head?" Sanders asked reporters in the briefing room.

She added: "And where was Bob Iger for ESPN hiring Keith Olbermann after his numerous expletive tweets attacking the president as a Nazi and even expanding Olbermann's role after that attack against the president's family?"
Sanders, who said no one in the White House was "defending" Barr's "inappropriate" comment, also criticized CNN and MSNBC for declining to air Trump's signing of an executive order on Wednesday that would grant terminally ill Americans access to experimental medications that have yet to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
"While the president signed that legislation and actually addressed America, two networks chose not to cover it and covered something totally different and palace intrigue," Sanders said. "A massive piece of legislation that had bipartisan support, that was life-changing, literally life-changing for millions of Americans, two networks chose not to cover the president's remarks on that," she said.