The assholes are in plain view, in The White House

White House: It’s ‘Highly Inappropriate’ For Journalists To Criticize A General

The topic was Kelly's attack on Rep. Frederica Wilson, an attack made in course of defending Bozo against charges by her that he had made insensitive remarks to a gold star mother about the death of her son during a condolence call, including words to the effect that "he knew what he signed up for."

Perfectly true, but perhaps not really the moment to point that out.

But the general chose to make that defense by attempting to explain and justify the use of exactly such words during the call, thus admitting that the congresswoman's report was true, though The White House and Bozo personally had spent over a day lying that he never said any such thing.

His defense also contained an exhibition of wholly implausible and unjustified faux outrage at the behavior of the congresswoman, and included damning falsehoods about her past conduct.

When reporters raised questions about all that, this happened.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters Friday that it would be “highly inappropriate” for them to question chief of staff John Kelly because he served in the military as a general.

“If you want to go after Gen. Kelly, that is up to you,” she said. 

“If you want to get into a debate with a four-star Marine general, I think that is something highly inappropriate.”