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Margaret Sullivan: Sarah Sanders is at her worst at a strange time, when she‘s talking about respect for women

“If you were paying attention to what I just read to you …” she huffed, like an exasperated teacher reprimanding a classroom troublemaker.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders was responding — though not really — to a reporter’s question that she claimed to have already answered multiple times already.

Watching the press secretary at Monday’s briefing, the words that came to mind were these: a new low.

And that is really saying something, given the lying-from-day-one reign of Sean Spicer, along with Sanders’ own fulsome history of dissembling, and the 10-day flameout of Anthony Scaramucci last summer.

But she did it.