So back off all you haters! She’s just breaking new ground! If you don’t agree, you’re a racist…
Via Washington Post:
White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett dismissed her critics Wednesday afternoon, suggesting broadsides directed at her way are a natural byproduct of rising to a powerful perch in Washington as a woman.
“When you break glass ceilings you’re going to get scraped — a minor scrape — by a chard or two from the glass,” Jarrett told MSNBC. “But what I really focus on is the hard work that we have in these last two years and I wake up every morning, as I know the president does, focusing on people who are really just trying to get ahead, who are counting on us to work for them.”
Jarrett, who has been one of President Obama’s closest confidants — arguably the closest — and a longtime family friend, has been criticized by some other Democrats, including a few in Obama’s orbit. Accounts of her feuding with other Obama aides have surfaced in media reports during his presidency.