American Urban Radio Network’s April Ryan isn’t having any of Spicey’s whiny bullshit.
On Tuesday he again showed his manipulative and churlish side in an exchange with April D. Ryan, the longtime White House correspondent and Washington bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks. Ryan has been sitting through White House briefings since the second term of President Bill Clinton, and she had a big-picture question for Spicer after some rocky months for the Trump administration. “Two and a half months in, you’ve got this [Sally] Yates story today, you’ve got other things going on, you’ve got Russia, you’ve got wiretapping,” said Ryan, until Spicer cut her off.
[….]After some more pushback from Ryan, Spicer said, “I appreciate your agenda here.” He said that people briefed on the Russia thing have reached the same conclusion about this matter. And as he unfurled his explanation, he snapped at Ryan: “I’m sorry that that disgusts you. You’re shaking your head. I appreciate it,” he said with sarcasm.
As a matter of fact, Ryan was displaying unimpeachable body language at that moment.
efgoldman
Sphincter is such an unskilled liar. His nose might as well be visibly growing. He needs to study old Ron Ziegler tapes.
mai naem mobile
The Russians must have some real good stuff on Spicey because I see no reason why he sticks around. He’s not even good at the job. Like Paul Ryan, I suspect nobody else wants the job.
SiubhanDuinne
I can barely contain my fury at Sean Spicer for the condescending, pontificating, patronizing arrogance he displayed to April Ryan today. Who in the everloving blue-eyed eternal FUCK does he think he even is to talk to another adult like that? Fuck him and the faux-president he rode in on.
Chyron HR
@SiubhanDuinne:
A white man, duh.
Starfish
Hillary Clinton apparently saw this exchange.
Schlemazel
The guy is the perfect press sec for the biggest asshole to ever sit in the Oval Office. A blovating liar who bullies and threatens so inartfully. It is almost as if Trump himself were there in the room, minus the unwarranted ego.
hitchhiker
Recently I heard some WA insider types talking about Sean, and how he LOVES the attention and fame of being press secretary. He gets invited to all the parties, which is apparently super important in his world. To him, the whole thing’s just a good game which he’s totally winning, because he’s on the tv every day & everyone knows his name. They say once the cameras are off, he’s all “Hey, where we goin’ for a beer?”
Which makes me despise him more.
SiubhanDuinne
@efgoldman:
I think I mentioned this on Saturday, but it’s worth repeating: Paula Poundstone on NPR’s Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me was doing a riff about the WH Press Secretary and in the middle of it she tossed out the line “Sean Spicer and his father, Geppetto….”
Perfect.
lollipopguild
@Schlemazel: That is why Stupid Spice was given the job.
rikyrah
Hashtag #BlackWomenAtWork
https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/blackwomenatwork?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fpragmaticobotsunite.com%2Ftuesday-afternoon-thread-duran-duran-week%2F&src=hash
lollipopguild
@hitchhiker: Gee it is all just a big “game”.
Quinerly
We shouldn’t forget that a few weeks back Omarosa basically threatened April Ryan.
Major Major Major Major
@Starfish: I look forward to reading The Intercept’s reporting on how April Ryan is an impure war-loving neoliberal whore.
SenyorDave
Somewhat OT, but as bad as the Republicans have been in my lifetime (I’m 58), it has taken the election of Trump for the GOP to reach a new level: a party of traitors. I guess there is the remotest chance that the Russian connections of Trump and virtually all of his inner circle are coincidences, but without a thorough investigation we will never know. IMO, Nunes, Ryan and the rest of the shitbags who are now actively working to block investigations are traitors to this country. As far as I am concerned if it turns out the Russian connections point to direct interference in the election, Trump and his people are no better than Aldrich Ames or Jonathon Pollard.
SiubhanDuinne
@Quinerly:
Nor that the Shitgibbon thought she should set up a meeting between him and the CBC.
Quinerly
@SiubhanDuinne:
That too. I’ve been a big fan of April Ryan for years. My money’s on her.
Major Major Major Major
@SenyorDave: I consider any republican politician and apparatchik (not necessarily voter) who wasn’t in #nevertrump land by Election Day to be at best irredeemable and at worst a traitor.
Mnemosyne
@mai naem mobile:
Remember, Spicey is the second choice. Trump’s first choice had to resign because he knocked up the mistress that his wife didn’t know about, and the mistress announced it on Twitter.
Gin & Tonic
@Mnemosyne: Nothing but the best people.
cain
@Mnemosyne:
haha, so much win. (for us)
germy
@Mnemosyne: Who was the first choice?
Feebog
Just watching the clip between Spicer and Ryan. Christ what an asshole.
Jeffro
@SenyorDave:
Amen, and traitors (and their parties) don’t get to keep the fruits of their treachery either – especially not when they helped a hostile foreign power commit an act of war against our country.
Mnemosyne
@rikyrah:
Racism + sexism = super toxic combination.
germy
April is “hell-bent” according to spicey.
JerryRich
@Starfish: What! Hillary gave a speech?. And to the Professional Business Women of California? What a sellout!
Mike J
@germy: Jason Miller
jl
If Trump is using Russian salad dressing, we can skip the impeachment and go straight to the trial.
Mnemosyne
@germy:
Jason Miller.
Villago Delenda Est
Spicer needs to have the living shit beat out of him.
zhena gogolia
@Villago Delenda Est:
Somebody’s going to call you bloodthirsty, but not me. It’s just the plain truth.
Major Major Major Major
@Villago Delenda Est: I volunteer as tribute.
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@germy: Jason Miller. And of course his wife was pregnant with their second child at the time AJ Delgado insinuated by tweets that she was also expecting his child. He resigned to spend more time with his family, presumably the one he has with his wife.
cain
@Villago Delenda Est:
I would prefer he get a bunch of bad luck where he ends up homeless.
zhena gogolia
@Villago Delenda Est:
It’s like the Flannery O’Connor story, “She would have been a good woman if she’d had someone there to shoot her every minute of her life.” Quoting from memory, so don’t give me a hard time.
SenyorDave
@Villago Delenda Est: He looks like a guy who got a swirlie on a regular basis in high school. If not, he should have.
Major Major Major Major
@cain: ¿porque no los dos?
efgoldman
@zhena gogolia:
What? You know this is Balloon Juice, right?
Starfish
@JerryRich: She needed the money to buy a new wardrobe to replace those expensive pantsuits. Look. She has a leather jacket now.
Starfish
@Major Major Major Major: Every time I see someone busting Glenn Greenwald’s chops, I want to tweet DougJ to make sure he has seen it. But it seems like busting Greenwald’s chops is a thing that so many people do on Twitter that it might be more effort to send all those things to DougJ than I first expected.
TenguPhule
So what horrible surprise awaits us on April 1, 2017 from these people who are not kidding when they say they want to blow up the world?
Major Major Major Major
@Starfish: sounds like more attention that GG warrants.
Villago Delenda Est
Billdo is all upset because Chris Matthews compared Donald’s spawn out of Ivana to Saddam’s spawn.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: So is you reading The Intercept.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: where have I said I read the intercept?
TenguPhule
@Villago Delenda Est: If the shit inside of him is alive and actually running things, it would certainly explain a lot.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major:
TenguPhule
@SenyorDave:
And as I keep pointing out, they can only be executed for Treason once. So why would they stop now?
Steve in the ATL
@Baud:
Whoa there–let’s not say things we can’t take back!
TenguPhule
@Villago Delenda Est: Truth hurts. May both of them end up like Saddam’s sons too.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: If that wasn’t obvious sarcasm then your sarcasmotron’s sarcasmometer needs trued.
TenguPhule
@Steve in the ATL:
Cannons at 20 paces at dawn?
different-church-lady
SAUCE FOR THE GANDER, MOTHERFUCKER!
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: I THOUGHT WE WERE SUPPOSED TO USE THE SARCASM FONT TO INDICATE SARCASM!!!
I can’t keep up, man.
Starfish
@Major Major Major Major:
Villago Delenda Est
@different-church-lady: Seriously. Sphincter is not bright enough to realize that.
different-church-lady
@mai naem mobile:
Now let’s be fair to Spicer here: nobody in this White House is good at their job.
Villago Delenda Est
@TenguPhule: “My seconds will call on your seconds. If my seconds can’t make it, I’ll send my thirds.”
Kristine
The think the BJ store should offer a “jackals” t-shirt.
Also, a mug.
amk
Lies, Obfuscations, Evasions, Arrogant Treason. Every fucking day.
Great job, wwc and gopee.
WereBear
@SenyorDave: I’m up for giving him one now. Personally.
Major Major Major Major
@Kristine: I could always use a new mug.
MattF
Spicer looked good in the Easter Bunny costume, so he’s well qualified for press secretary.
Major Major Major Major
Even Rasmussen has Il Douche’s job approval at -10. What a disaster.
different-church-lady
@Starfish:
He’s not exactly here for the hunting.
@Villago Delenda Est: That’s amazing: you’ve found a Groucho-ism the internet doesn’t know about.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: Still in his honeymoon.
satby
When Melissa McCarthy plays this exchange as Spicer, it’s going to be delicious.
different-church-lady
@amk: You say it as though they weren’t knowingly voting for exactly that.
debbie
If SNL is live this week, I hope Leslie Jones as April Ryan rips Spicey a new one.
MattF
@Baud: Y’know, I think that’s exactly right.
amk
@different-church-lady: Yeah, stupid shits.
different-church-lady
@debbie: In a battle between a belligerent motorized podium and Lesile Jones, my money’s on Jones.
TenguPhule
@Villago Delenda Est: Bravo! /doffs cap
quakerinabasement
@zhena gogolia: I think that’s pretty close to right.
TenguPhule
@Kristine: Piranhas would sell better. And perhaps more suitable.
TenguPhule
@amk: And this is before a real crisis erupts.
Kropadope
These motherfuckers say they’re gonna face down ISIL and they can’t even handle a delicately couched question about their image problem.
Sad.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: If this were a marriage, it would be headed straight for divorce.
different-church-lady
@Kropadope: SPICER: “WE don’t have a terrorist attack! YOU have a terrorist attack!”
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: Or a murder/suicide.
TenguPhule
@schrodingers_cat:
FTFY.
Domestic abuse gone wild.
ETA: And Baud beats me to it.
cain
@satby:
Make this happen. If they complain, someone should explain that capitalism made this happen.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Major Major Major Major:
Yup, I’ve seen pics of you. j/k
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Sounds like the honeymoon where the wife is caught fucking the poolboys at the resort. All of them at the same time.
different-church-lady
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Exactly what have you been renting on Netflix?
Smiling Mortician
@SenyorDave: That’s not OT. That’s permanently T until this shit gets resolved.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@different-church-lady: I don’t have Netflix, but I do live in The Valley.
Omnes Omnibus
Just based on Spicer’s tone of voice, I am assuming that Ms Ryan is black.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Good movie.
amk
@?BillinGlendaleCA: You do know that your innernet privacy is kaput now, right?
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: Ja, I am here to fix deine Kable
Omnes Omnibus
@TenguPhule: Stop stealing VDE’s schtick.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus:
That is correct, sir.
debbie
@Omnes Omnibus:
The same black reporter Trump asked to set up a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Movie?
ETA: I did see ‘Boogie Nights’.
@amk: Never cared.
satby
@Omnes Omnibus: that would be correct
Omnes Omnibus
@debbie: Because she knows all the other black people? Jesus wept.
Credenzal Jocularity
OT
In Chicago at intermission for Hamilton. This Wayne Brady guy can really sing.
Just hoping he does his Chapelle Show inspired aside when it’s ripe in Act II…
delk
Bet that Russian Dressing was on a wedge salad.
?BillinGlendaleCA
I think I may have figured out why I was getting an influx of small flying bugs(it was neither a substance taken nor a need for new eyewear as efgoldman suggested). My neighbor trimmed his tangelo tree that’s right by my fence and left branches and a shit ton of tangelos. The rather, eh, ripe tangelos and the wind were responsible. I’ve only seen one tonight, the wind died down and I picked up the tangelos. Now I’m debating on whether to go to Target and get some daytime cold meds since I have to take the girls to the doggie day spa and all I have is the nighttime stuff
dm
Okay, this is the first bit of Spicer I’ve ever watched. From that disadvantaged vewpoint, it’s pretty clear he’s doing an okay job breathing life into the Big Lie.
That salad-dressing line is probably going to live on and be echoed by Trumpolines whenever the Russia connection is brought up. His hectoring of April Ryan is geared to reinforce the prejudices of the Trumpadres about the “press is the enemy”, “has an agenda”, and doesn’t “report the facts”.
That business about “everyone who has been briefed about this, Republican, Democrat, Obama appointee…. has come to the same conclusion…” And that conclusion was what? Does he ever say? No, he always breaks off at that point to upbraid April Ryan, and talk about her agenda.
That’s actually a pretty good propaganda dance.
?BillinGlendaleCA
My rather long comment just went to the bit bucket, FYWP!
dm
@different-church-lady: Soon, thanks to de-regulation, we will all be able to buy the answer from his ISP.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@dm:
It also works better since she’s black.
amk
@dm: Only in the eyes of true beliebers. And that pool is shrinking.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@dm: I can undercut them on price.
amk
@?BillinGlendaleCA: ok, how much for your bookmarks?
Omnes Omnibus
So this is a thing…
Yarrow
Good Lord, Spicer is a condescending asshole. I’d seen the transcript but watching and listening to it is something else entirely. He looks like he does not like his job. I wonder how long he’ll last.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@amk: Ya want them?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: Jezzz…
different-church-lady
@dm: Meh, cheaper to just ask him.
amk
Can’t wait for scots to tell mother theresa to go take a hike.
amk
Thru the Looking Glass...
But wait… there’s MORE!
Devin Nunes Vows To ‘Never’ Reveal Source Of Surveillance Claims
Is that because your sources don’t exist, Devin?
Or was Steven Bannon’s ass your source, as in, ‘Steve pulled ’em outta his ass…’
Wow… just… wow…
How much more of a lying, arrogant, TRAITOROUS bastard can Devin be?
I heard an interview w/ him on NPR mid-afternoon…
A reporter asked him DIRECTLY about Schiff’s request that he recuse himself…
And all Devin said was, ‘I’m sorry, I don’t understand that question’… and he moved on to someone else…
This, IMHO, is as much as admitting you’re fucked, but.. wow…
?BillinGlendaleCA
@amk: March 29th? A headline from the future?
debbie
@Omnes Omnibus:
I cannot imagine what those “two bonus lines” are.
Major Major Major Major
@Omnes Omnibus: wow. And the copy is amazing too. They cite “expensive republican polling” showing that he’s their best bet and call Baldwin a “lesbian peace hippy”.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Thru the Looking Glass…: In fairness, Devin’s not all that bright and may not understood the question.
amk
@?BillinGlendaleCA: yeah, I hate the fucking time zones too.
Yarrow
@Omnes Omnibus: That will not stay a thing. Clarke is caught up in this Russia stuff too.
@Thru the Looking Glass…:
That’s cute. I think he can be persuaded to talk.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@debbie: Lines of coke?
brendancalling
@Villago Delenda Est: I agree wholeheartedly. Two of my friends went to high school with Spicey. They say he was a suck-up tool that no one liked. They’d like to knock his teeth in too.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@amk: It’s from AP, so even though it’s about California and it’s 4 1/2 hours until the 29th even on the east coast it’s still not the 29th. They basing it on GMT?
laura
@Omnes Omnibus: No. No, not even. Just no.
Wing nut grift makes me angry.
amk
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I am from a different continent dude. And the twitter knows it.
StringOnAStick
I’m waiting for the first Russian style “accident” or bathtub drop to hit a non-Russian involved in this mess. I figure the rush to seek immunity in exchange for protection is going to be epic. Manafort looks like he could be a solid tackler but Stone is always covered in eel slime so it could get tricky.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@amk: Ah, that makes sense.
trollhattan
@amk: Kamala Harris went after this guy and I hope he’s strung up by the scrotum.
Kathleen
@JerryRich: Ha! I always knew Shrillary was in the tank for Big Woman. I demand transcript stat!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@StringOnAStick:
Kind of amazing that you could ink a tat though that.
Omnes Omnibus
@debbie: I ain’t spending the cash to find out.
@Major Major Major Major: To be fair, she is a lesbian peace hippie. OTOH, she comes across, in person and on TV, as a combination nice librarian from when you were a kid and youngish grandmother.
Thru the Looking Glass...
@Yarrow: I’m kinda impressed w/ the chutzpah…
I’d like to think that when all this finally washes out, it means Devin’s political career is toast, and he can commence on a new one, perhaps making license plates in one of the for-profit facilities Sessions is so fond of…
I wonder if people above him in the Trump inner circle are beginning to regret bringing him into this…
A move like this SCREAMS desperation… flop sweat… shaking hands…
Yarrow
@?BillinGlendaleCA: @amk: I’m not sure that’s the case. If you’re logged into Twitter you might get the time zone you set as yours when you go to copy/embed the post here. But if you’re not you get whatever time zone Twitter sets. I just tried it with your tweet above (not logged into Twitter) and it gave me March 29 as well. Maybe it’s GMT if you’re not logged in.
Thru the Looking Glass...
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m confused…
Does that mean they’re RUNNING a 12″ bobble head for office?
And what happens if we all start going there and pledging $.01?
Think it’d get on their nerves after a while?
Kathleen
@Thru the Looking Glass…:
Followed by NPR reporter’s next question, “Do you agree that Adam Schiff is a meanie?”
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Yarrow: Thanks, I was a bit confused.
SiubhanDuinne
@amk:
One of the U.K. tabs (think it was the Daily Mail but would need to doublecheck) front-paged the Sturgeon-May meeting with a headline about their legs.
And we thought the U.S. media were sexist!
Omnes Omnibus
@Thru the Looking Glass…: I feel like I need a shower after going there to show it to all of you. I sort of understand what the people who watch “Morning Joe” so we don’t have to feel like.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@SiubhanDuinne:
The both have them I take it.
Yarrow
@Thru the Looking Glass…: Devin is so incompetent it seems like he’s someone they’d cut loose pretty early. Maybe they want to have dummies like him around so they can point the finger at him and say it’s all his fault. But I thought last week it was all Flynn’s fault. How many people will they go through that they claim it’s all their fault before the house of cards starts collapsing?
Aleta
Fox has gone off the rails with open racism and insults of strong black women. Short video of 3 clips (by O-R and from Fuck no ur not my Friends): https://twitter.com/yashar/status/846788029188583424
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: It sounds more Sun than Daily Mail, but I wouldn’t rule out the Mail.
GregB
Is Kushner auditioning for the lead role in an American Psycho remake?
Second, the Republican Party is so fucking nuts that Paul LePage is emerging as a voice of reason.
Also, Walter Jones is the first GOP-er to call for Devin Cover Up Nunes to GTFO.
Also need to write a thank you to April Ryan.
amk
@SiubhanDuinne: Yup. It’s the daily hate mail, alright.
Thru the Looking Glass...
@Kathleen: Strangely enough, I believe that was the next question…
Thru the Looking Glass...
@Omnes Omnibus: We thank you for your sacrifice.. please, head for the showers after that.
Villago Delenda Est
@different-church-lady: I stole it from Woody Allen: it’s from Love and Death.
Thru the Looking Glass...
@Yarrow:
Well, from Devin’s performances today i’d say the house is starting to shake pretty badly…
What will he do for the next unpleasant question, stick his fingers in his ears and go, ‘La la la la la la… I can’t hear you!’???
Whilst magical thinking is tres cute in a 5 yr old, it is appalling in an adult…
Tenar Arha
@mai naem mobile: Can’t quit. He’s destroyed any credibility he might have had, probably forever. It is like working for any terrible company or boss, psychologically, after giving up so much of yourself, it becomes harder to quit after investing so much. Basically you have only a few choices once you choose to throw in with 45; one is Josh Marshall’s “dignity wraith.” Like Chris Christie, Sean Spicer will never be taken seriously in his chosen career in DC again, so instead of cutting his losses he probably thinks he might as well stick it out & hope he can land on his feet.
jacy
@Kristine:
I’m going to try to design a jackels logo — we obviously need one!
Aleta
@Major Major Major Major:
And then they head straight for the gutter: “Three words: WORSE THAN BERNIE.”
Tenar Arha
@SenyorDave: Technically you might not be accurate about the Republicans. Some started being traitorous when we were much younger. It could easily be argued that Nixon started this trend, like so much else, when he interfered in the Vietnam peace talks before the 1968 election.
different-church-lady
@Villago Delenda Est: I thought it sounded familiar. Appropriate, since what Allen wanted most in life is to be Groucho.
Steve in the ATL
@?BillinGlendaleCA: It’s like closing a business deal where the buyer and seller need it to happen in separate tax years. Easy if the seller needs it done this year and the buyer next year; harder if the buyer needs to buy it before the seller sells it: then the seller signs in NYC using the current date and the buyer signs in London using the current date there. And who doesn’t want to spend NYE in London shuffling closing docs?
Aleta
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/kkk-photo-leads-to-cancellation-of-school-play-in-minnesota-908239427576?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
Villago Delenda Est
@different-church-lady: He may have stolen it from Groucho himself. It does sound very Groucho-esque.
efgoldman
@amk:
YES!!!!
efgoldman
@Thru the Looking Glass…:
I said earlier today, he’s a character in a Donald Westlake novel.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL: This kind of shit is probably why you feel the professional need to golf.
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus: and you can drink while you golf!
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL: I can drink while not golfing. When I had a practice that had golfing clients, I would usually ask them to go trap shooting. They would say they didn’t do it. Then when they ask me to golf, i was one or more up on them.
Debbie1
@Starfish: What? A leather jacket! Burn her, she’s a witch!