Sometimes alcohol is a truth serum. That appears to be the case for this story from The Daily Caller about a sloppy drunk Politico writer who berated a table full of Trump supporters at a Washington party recently.
From the DC:
Politico Playbook writer Anna Palmer pulled a Mel Gibson last Thursday night at the Four Seasons hotel in Washington’s Georgetown neighborhood when she approached a civilized gathering of President Trump allies and incoherently blasted them for apparently being on the wrong side of America’s political divide.
The group of eight to ten people had drinks at the bar and moved the party to a table between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m.
That’s when Palmer approached.
Initially, they didn’t realize who she was. The group included Breitbart News‘s Washington Editor Matt Boyle, Alexandra Preate, a longtime associate of Trump Senior Advisor Steve Bannon, GOP operative Arthur Schwartz and a handful of senior Trump administration officials.
The DC learned that Palmer was “fall-down drunk,” according to a witness, and began yelling and lecturing those seated at the table.
“It was like a crazy homeless person coming up to you on the street and rambling,” the source said.
“She stumbled from like three tables over. I was on my third drink. She was there, and she was just loud and really sloppy,” another witness said. “It looked like she spilled something on herself. Slurring words.”
The story continues:
The source added, “We were joking around about fake news.” She started saying, “‘Ohhh…fuck you guys!’ She blacked out. I felt bad for her frankly. She was having a bad night. It happens. She said the White House was a joke. Some of it may have been in jest.”
Someone from the party went to get the restaurant staff to tell her to leave.
But Palmer ultimately left on her own accord.
“She stumbled out,” said the eyewitness.
Those at the party noted, “She was wagging her finger at us. She’s one of the faces of Politico. We’re all Republicans. We all have pretty close ties to the White House.”
Palmer reportedly admitted to her embarrassing performance to her superiors once they received word of what happened. Of course, the outlets director of communications, Katie Padwell, reworked an entirely different story line when asked to give an account:
“At this point I think its kind of a she said, he said. The take I have from her…when she walked in, they were pretty aggressive, yelling ‘Fake news! Fake News!’ Ultimately she left because she was uncomfortable. Usually people are loud in a bar and things can be misinterpreted. Anna walks into a bar. An aggressive group [starts talking to her]. She left on her own.”
Liberals are never the aggressors, right?
The DC rightly concludes: “In a climate when news outlets like CNN are constantly getting broiled for being ‘fake news,’ the incident has larger implications of Politico‘s possible bias against Republicans. ‘That was unfiltered bias,’ my source remarked. ‘Playbook is her without the drinks in her.’”
