Matt Schlapp: Leaks more important than my wife's employee "joking" about McCain dying

[Miles Archer]

During an interview on NPR, Schlapp was confronted about his wife, Mercedes Schlapp, the White House director of strategic communications, after she defended staffer Kelly Sadler’s so-called “joke” about McCain dying. Sadler was quoted as saying McCain’s opposition to Trump’s nominee for CIA director doesn’t matter because he’s dying of brain cancer.

“In all candor, Kelly does report to her,” Schlapp admitted. “And I think Kelly acknowledged that the words she used in this meeting that the words she used were unfortunate and called Meghan McCain immediately to apologize.”

Schlapp failed to note that McCain’s daughter asked Sadler to publicly apologize but she has refused to do so. Instead, he argued that “bigger issue” is that staffers are leaking details of White House meetings.

“The bigger issue the White House has is that they can’t have confidential meetings without people on their own staff leaking it,” Schlapp opined. “And that is a mortal threat to the success of this agenda.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/matt-schlapp-scurries-npr-asks-wife-defended-mocking-mccain-bigger-issue-leaks/

[NewJeffCT]

1. I asked this on Twitter before

but, what was the joke supposed to be when Schlapp "joked" about McCain not mattering because he's dying?

[Lucinda]

2. +1

[NewJeffCT]

5. I learned that from Al Franken

Back in the 1990s, when Rush Limbaugh made a joke about then teenager Chelsea Clinton being the "president's dog," Limbaugh's staff said they were attempting to make a joke and a picture of her came up by mistake.

So, Franken's question in his book was if it was the wrong slide, what was the joke supposed to be?

I find that works very well when people were saying so-and-so was making a joke - what was the joke supposed to be? (Hint, it was not meant as a joke - it was supposed to be an insult)

[Lucinda]

12. I think it is the perfect response. There is no way they can defend it

and both sides know it.

[Tipperary]

7. Good question.

[stevenleser]

14. Schlapp was not the one who made the joke, someone who reported to her did and she

(She being Mercedes Schlapp) tried to defend her report.

[EffieBlack]

3. No different than people saying "I wish Trump would stop tweeting"

They’re fine that these people say deplorable things - they just don’t want the wrong people to hear them when they do.

[treestar]

4. Well put me down as being in favor of any mortal threat

to the Dotard's agenda.

[airmid]

6. If "the agenda" is jeopardized by a little knowledge and light on it, then maybe it's an agenda

that deserves derision and opposition.

[procon]

8. Looks like he's reading from the same memo that every other Republican got this morning.

As a create justification for mocking McCain, this attempt is just as bad as all the other efforts to avoid saying , "sorry".

[bullwinkle428]

9. Recall, everyone - this is the asshole that walked out of the Correspondents'

Dinner when Michelle Wolf did her set, complaining about the "uncivil tone" of the commentary.

[gratuitous]

10. It's not the deplorable comment, it's that you people found out about it

That about sum it up, Matt? That's hardly a reason for getting all upset at the media, though. If you're truly angry about it, though, maybe you and your wife could spend some time figuring out who blabbed Kelly's little joke to the media. Seems like not everyone in the room was her friend.

[Gothmog]

11. This idiot is an asshole

[tavernier]

13. Quite a sense of humor your wifey has...

If I were you, I would clear the house of any knives or guns before sleeping. You have let yourself get so bloated and ugly, she might be in the market for a new model, maybe a Paul Ryan republican, all buff and muscled and eyeing a lucrative job outside of a losing coming up election.

You know, she would just tell the judge you were dying anyway.

[stevenleser]

15. See my #14 above. nt

[misanthrope]

16. My friends who have worked and lived in Washington DC over these many years

seem to always mention its unusually high percentage of gay men. They say plenty are in marriages of convenience, too.

Imagine that.