Fuck the Emmys for having him, and fuck the NY Times for this handjob:
During his surprise comedy skit at the Emmys on Sunday, Sean Spicer may have made light of his six-month tenure as the White House press secretary, but a message was also embedded in his performance.
In an interview on Monday morning, Mr. Spicer said he now regrets one of his most infamous moments as press secretary: his decision to charge into the White House briefing room in January and criticize accurate news reports that Barack Obama’s inauguration crowd was bigger than President Donald J. Trump’s.
“Of course I do, absolutely,” Mr. Spicer said.
I’ll just outsource this to Jay Smooth:
A prediction about Sean Spicer, and his fellow garbage fire enablers. pic.twitter.com/XCnuHwfVgu
— jay smooth (@jsmooth995) May 30, 2017
Eat a bag of dicks, Spciey.
p.a.
Thought by the title it might be about Bernie, but in the US of A 2017 we certainly have a target rich environment for STFUs.
Joe Falco
@p.a.: Indeed. There is a whole stadium’s worth of people that need to take a seat.
bystander
I was hoping the thread was about Netanyahu dictating American foreign policy to twitler today. Got my loudest GFY of the morning.
Cermet
Who would think to put such an a$$wipe on the Emmy’s? Likely a few tRumpete’s that troll here.
Raoul
There is something just deeply, morally whack at the NYT politics desk.
rikyrah
Tell it, Cole
rikyrah
@bystander:
What happened? I’ve missed it.
schrodingers_cat
Wasn’t there a thread on Spicy just this morning?
James Powell
FTFNYT!
Yutsano
Am I the only one thinking this was gonna be about Grandpa Walnuts?
No?
Just me?
Okay…
Kay
The NYTimes proudly refer to themselves as “Trump Whisperers”.
Give up on them. Gone. They’re out for the count.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
Sean Spicer should never find work again. Simple justice demands that he go the rest of his doughy, soggy life without income. Not that this would be much of a hardship, since he’s likely already earned enough to live fat and happy for 150 years, but he shouldn’t ever work again. Well, maybe as a sewage farm attendant…
Aimai
@Yutsano: no, me too.
bystander
@rikyrah: Netanyahu and twitler did their symbolic spread legged exhibition of their veiled gonads while Netanyahu explained why twitler had to break off the peace accord with Iran.
Slightly OT, but is the reason Cobb and Dowd did what they did to help Kelly out a leaker? Because immediately after the lunch, the NYTimes contacted the WH for comment.
“People informed about the confrontation” is a leak. Could they have staged the lunch thing to out a leaker?
Kay
@Cermet:
It’s time for the country to put our differences aside and rally ’round huge tax cuts for rich people.
rikyrah
@Yutsano:
Not only you. I did think it was going to be about Country Last.
trollhattan
“Aww, he finally got to meet the pope after Trump was so mean to him” was a common refrain so it’s not surprising that folks just assume Spicey was just being a good soldier for an impossible boss. Doesn’t explain why anybody with half a brain would go work for him unless their bidnez ventures would directly benefit. (#HalfTheCabinet)
Lavocat
Bada and bing.
Doug R
Yup. He went out there bearing false witness taking his thirty pieces of silver helping the Tangerine Nazi. Fuckemall.
raven
But it was “LIVE TV”. There was nothing else on anyway was there?
Millard Filmore
@Doug R:
Hey, the commandment is about bearing false witness AGAINST your neighbor. It says nothing about bearing false witness FOR your neighbor.
NotMax
Awful lot of chatter concerning something of at best minuscule import.
The greatest sin is that it was Too Soon.
Yutsano
@Aimai: @rikyrah: I’m watching on Twitter and it’s like he’s flailing all over the place. Now he’s back to a soft “no” and blah blah about regular order.
Seriously, fuck that guy.
rikyrah
@bystander:
Can’t they just indict Bibi already?
J R in WV
@Raoul:
Absolutely!
There is someone there,, or even a small senior group of people, who are bought and paid for, either by an American billionaire or by a Russian oligarch. Else top management is under the control of some similar group. Stinks highly of the Danish dead fish, though. Surely it does.
And I think it goes beyond their politics and national/foreign news desks… even the “society” reporting seems off what good reporting would be.
chrisH
It’s hard for me to get worked up over this one, at least as far as the cameo during the Emmy’s. Seems as just a fate as we can hope at this current arc of the universe that Spicer’s entire legacy has been reduced to lying about crowd size and a Megan McCarthy sketch and that he has embraced this fact.
The current welfare state for Wingnuts and Very Serious People will always bail men like Spicer out. I suspect being regarded as a villain won’t make him lose any sleep.
Maybe being a walking punchline will.
J R in WV
@Kay:
Yes it is! I will be in favor of huge tax cuts for hugely wealthy people the very next day after I become hugely rich! And not a day before.
Oh wow! Reminds me, gotta run out and get a new Powerball ticket!!!
;-)
TenguPhule
@rikyrah:
So many assholes. So few rusty chainsaws.
Corner Stone
@TenguPhule: Now you’ve done it. JGabriel to direct:
Nun With A Chainsaw
And me to direct with JG as Exec Producer:
Nun With A Chainsaw II: Come Get Nun!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@raven: Wasn’t “LIVE TV” where it happened. It was on tape delay here in LA.
Elizabelle
@J R in WV: Agreed. You put up a similar, longer comment a few days ago. Could you put it up again here?
It was so good I wanted to share it on an interim BJ thread on press malfeasance.
Something is seriously, seriously fucked at the FTF NYT.
MaryL
I actually know a woman who is very good friends with him, and she told me right after his first briefing that Spicer was absolutely humiliated but felt at that point that there was no going back because no one else would hire him or take him seriously after that. I have no sympathy for him whatsoever, but I have to admit that I’m impressed with the way he miraculously managed to rehabilitate his image among the beltway cocktail party set.
NotMax
@Corner Stone
Life imitates art.
(Well, the title, anyway.) ;)
Kay
@bystander:
Why do they care so much? There’s nothing to this bombshell report. One of Trump’s lawyers disagrees with another of Trump’s lawyers and they’re planning on relying on some form of privilege, which would be SOP.
They’re paranoid and they all hate each other in the Trump Administration. Horrible people are horrible at work, film at 11.
Nicole
Vulture agrees:
http://www.vulture.com/2017/09/emmy-awards-2017-hypocritically-progressive.html
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@MaryL: as McKay Coppins said, Sean Spicer is going to be a very rich man in a very short time. Not as rich as Reince Priebus, I would guess. Signing up to be humiliated, mocked and ultimately tossed aside by trump was the best move a third rate political operative from Kenosha could ever have made.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Cermet:
Probably the assholes who put Spicer on the Emmys are the same ones that greenlight reality TV bullshit.
I get the feeling that the same assholes have been making editorial decisions – repeatedly – to shove news megaphones up to Trump’s piehole the last 35 years for his “interesting” opinions. Most are NYC mediots because that seems to be Ground Zero for stupid.
Ever notice that Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, Warren Buffett were never covered nearly so much on political policy? That they seemed charmingly normal by comparison? That they built things and did things?
Notice that evil Jew George Soros (j/k) was never really the subject of lionizations pieces correcting the idiot record the right built about him, or that his philanthropic efforts were directed to expansion of the franchise?
When the Revolution comes, Andy Cohen is going to be one of the folks surprised at the low number of his turn on the wall. He’ll actually be back a bit from the honchos at the alphabets, the cable news outlets and the cable reality assholes.
J R in WV
@Elizabelle:
I remember making the comment, but not the thread, nor the date. It was probably more than a week ago as I was on vacation from 9/9 thru 9/16, and viewing B-J mostly on a small tablet which is agony to type on. So I was mostly limited to, well, short obscenities… Busy vacating too!
But I’ll take a Google at it.
SiubhanDuinne
Not everyone at the FTFNYT.
Frank Bruni put up a column: “The Shameful Embrace of Sean Spicer at the Emmys.” Good for him.
Brachiator
@bystander:
This is a more interesting theory than a lot of the other speculations here and there. But, who knows?
MCA1
@MaryL: If he were to actually come out and (i) admit to the world what horribly shitty judgment it was to go work for that disaster of a human being, and (ii) apologize for enabling that narcissistic all-consuming asshole by lying through his teeth and surrendering his dignity in the pursuit of fame and power, then I might stop thinking “FUCK THAT GUY” every time his name comes up. Unless and until he does that, I’ll just chalk up any rehabilitation he pulls off with the Hollywood and D.C. powerbrokers set to the amorality of the latter rather than the cleverness of the former. Because FUCK THAT GUY. He doesn’t get any credit or admiration for anything until he admits complicity and begs forgiveness.
Miss Bianca
@Yutsano: No, not just you. Sean Spicer is such a sad little sack that he’s not even on my radar screen for FYs.
chopper
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
spicey was rich as balls before he even took the job
Brachiator
@J R in WV:
RE:. And I think it goes beyond their politics and national/foreign news desks… even the “society” reporting seems off what good reporting would be.
Agree with you that the White House reporting is seriously rancid, but other coverage is OK.
But there ain’t no such thing as good society reporting.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@chopper: no shit? Family money, or is he skilled campaign grifter?
MCA1
I was thinking earlier today that one of the silver linings of the whole Sean Spicer Experience is that years from now, thanks to Melissa McCarthy, millions of kids will come across old newspaper articles on the early days of the Drumpf Debacle and go “Spicer? Hunh. I was sure it was ‘Spicey.'” To the extent this rancid shit-peddler is remembered, it will primarily be by the wrong name. Haha.