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New White House receptionist is a West Wing pioneer: 'Deaf people can do anything'
NBC News ^ | 3/27/15 | Eun Kyung Kim

Posted on 03/27/2015 9:35:39 AM PDT by bigtoona

Anyone wanting to speak to the president must stop by her desk first. Leah Katz-Hernandez, 27, is the new White House receptionist.

She is also deaf.

“It’s a fantastic opportunity and also to show that deaf people can do anything,” she said through an interpreter, who is provided for her at work.

With a desk just steps away from the Oval Office, Katz-Hernandez is usually the first to greet anyone — from world leaders to White House staff members — who has an appointment with the president or his top-level aides. She also oversees the White House guest book and the Roosevelt Room, the West Wing meeting room, and is responsible for collecting cell phones before meetings with the president.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: deaf; katzhernandez; whreceptionist
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To: jmcenanly

Hear no evil.............


21 posted on 03/27/2015 9:44:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Jeff Chandler
Two people required for one job. Now that’s efficiency!

By government standards, that's a productivity increase.

22 posted on 03/27/2015 9:45:03 AM PDT by FredZarguna (It looks just like a Telefunken U-47 -- with leather.)
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To: Jeff Chandler
Two people required for one job. Now that’s efficiency!

Much easier to increase the Fedzilla payroll if you hire people for a job they cannot do, and then also hire a "helper" to do for them the parts of the job beyond their capacity.

23 posted on 03/27/2015 9:45:10 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: bigtoona

Might be part of their new job creation program.


24 posted on 03/27/2015 9:45:45 AM PDT by polymuser ( Enough is enough)
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To: bigtoona

“Inspiring” is not the word i would use.


25 posted on 03/27/2015 9:45:47 AM PDT by Leep (Ronney/McCain 2016!)
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To: bigtoona

Obama needs a Blind pilot for air farce one, just sayin...


26 posted on 03/27/2015 9:46:48 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: bigtoona

So, they have to hire yet another government employee to translate for her and answer the phone when it rings...

If she can do anything, let’s see her flap her arms and fly off the roof of the Blight House.


27 posted on 03/27/2015 9:47:10 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: bigtoona
Liberalism - Always appoint the least qualified person to any important post.

28 posted on 03/27/2015 9:48:11 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: bigtoona

I think blind Secret Service in wheelchairs would be great, too.

So.... how much cash is going out to 2 receptionists?

Let them eat cake, eh?


29 posted on 03/27/2015 9:48:45 AM PDT by CaptainPhilFan
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To: ColdOne

Every year I see that & every year I LOL.


30 posted on 03/27/2015 9:48:53 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: bigtoona

Imagine the Headlines if a Republican is Elected President and he doesn’t hire this Woman.

One Job requires two People. The new Shovel Ready...


31 posted on 03/27/2015 9:50:53 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Advertising Space Available here.)
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To: GraceG

lol


32 posted on 03/27/2015 9:51:19 AM PDT by Slyfox (I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever)
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To: Puppage

It is really funny.


33 posted on 03/27/2015 9:51:57 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: bigtoona

Some years ago, a photograph went over the wires and made it into the Fargo Forum. A blind poll watcher was hired on election day. The city-surprise-Chicago.


34 posted on 03/27/2015 9:52:17 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: bigtoona

Just watched the video with my wife and she thought it was an early April fools joke. The idiots on that show were all bigging her up and then stated she got there based on her accomplishments. HUH, by working on the re-election for her messiah?

The best is how it now takes two people to do one job which again just shows how dumb liberals are while they like to spend our money.

Next week blind people can do anything and will be admitted to fly those drones.


35 posted on 03/27/2015 9:52:20 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: bigtoona
It's hard to imagine a job she's less suited for.

The tragedy of her story is that it makes deaf people seem actually less capable than they are. This is terribly bad publicity for disabled people and their advocates, and these morons don't even seem to understand why. This plays directly into the hands of critics who claim that disabled people don't belong in the workplace because they actually make everyone else less productive.

When disabled people -- like anyone else -- perform tasks to which their talents and abilities are appropriately suited, there's no reason why they can't excel, and certainly no reason why they'd need to be followed around by handler who actually performs all of their work.

What an incredible bunch of dumbasses we have in the White House.

36 posted on 03/27/2015 9:54:35 AM PDT by FredZarguna (It looks just like a Telefunken U-47 -- with leather.)
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To: bigtoona

Finally, someone Moochelle can yell at who won’t quit.


37 posted on 03/27/2015 9:54:58 AM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: bigtoona

Agree with the ‘April Fool’ idea.

Who says these clowns are not History Buffs...
Must have dreamed up this idea from

The Eunuchs that were hired as Palace and ESPECIALLY the leaders wife’s PERSONAL body guard/Man in waiting.

One such leader had all his ‘Guys’ fixed but as an extra added precaution he fitted her with a device that would sort of separate an ‘intruder’ from his private parts.

Said Leader returned and called for an inspection and as the ‘Personal Guards’ dropped trou it was discovered they were now ‘missing’ a part.

He came upon Lanceloot and he stood there proudly displaying his manhood.

As the ‘Leader’ was congratulating him he said “Speak up Lanceloot, acknowledge my good wishes to you”

M...ble...m...ble etc etc


38 posted on 03/27/2015 9:55:00 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)A pessimist damns the wind, an optimist thinks it will change and a realist adjusts the sails.)
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To: GraceG
"...air farce..."

Would you tell me and others who served to our face that our service was/is a "farce"?

Would you tell the family members of Spirit 03 that their sacrifice was a "farce"?

If not, then please don't type it out for us to read the snipe that was supposed to be "cute".

Thanks in advance.

39 posted on 03/27/2015 9:55:10 AM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: bigtoona

You kind of wonder what the person who is actually doing the bulk of the work as her “interpreter” thinks about this arrangement. And what if that person became deaf? Would they hire another interpreter to act as the interpreter for the deaf interpretor to the deaf receptionist?


40 posted on 03/27/2015 9:57:02 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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