othershoe1030 wrote:Poor Spicer. Everyone says he is a great guy.
Oh, pul-eeze! Spicer was NOT a "great guy". He was the worst kind of spineless stooge so common in the halls of power. From the very first day he lied egregiously in defense of his master--remember that business about Trump's crowd size? What kind of "great guy" does that?
Even now he's still sucking up, saying that the President didn't want him to resign. In other words, he's going to continue kissing the expansive ass of Donald J. Trump on TV. He's as completely unprincipled and morally lost as his former boss. I hope he dies a painful, lingering death from some horrible wasting disease.
The only sad thing about his absence will be, as was noted earlier, the loss of material for Melissa McCarthy.
There's a great article in Politico about him.
The White House attracts all manner of toadies, suckups and flatterers seeking the president's favor, but never did any staffer demean, degrade and humble himself to the chief executive the way outgoing press secretary Sean Spicer did. Abandoning the arts of both persuasion and elision that have served previous prevaricating press secretaries so well, Spicer flung barb-tongued lies in the service of President Donald Trump.
Reviewing Spicer’s tenure as press secretary, we find no Trump transgression so foul that Spicer would not grovel before it. When Trump praised North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and invited thuggish Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte to the White House, Spicer dispensed sympathy and understanding upon the despots. No Trump mistake was too mundane for him to correct: He insisted that the word “covfefe,” which appeared in a late-night Trump tweet, wasn’t a typo. When Trump alluded to secret Trump-Comey audio recordings, Spicer dodged all questions about their existence. After the president claimed Obama had tapped his phones at Trump Tower, Spicer created a diplomatic incident by falsely accusing British intelligence of doing the snooping.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/21/should-you-feel-sorry-for-sean-spicer-215406
Note the sly reference to Vonnegut in the italicized bit at the end of the article. Foma, indeed.