Sean Spicer Says He Regrets Berating Reporters Over Inauguration Crowds
Source: New York Times
By GLENN THRUSH and DAVE ITZKOFF SEPT. 18, 2017
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 Obamas inauguration crowd was bigger than President Donald J. Trumps.
Of course I do, absolutely, Mr. Spicer said.
For Mr. Spicer, who resigned this summer after repeated clashes with the news media and a sharp disagreement with President Trump over the appointment of Anthony Scaramucci as communications director, the Emmys were his latest attempt to ingratiate himself with the largely liberal coastal entertainment and news elites he so acidly disdained as Mr. Trumps alter-ego spokesman. The once-obscure party spokesman has been elevated to a level of celebrity he scarcely dreamed possible a year ago and, like many before him, he hopes to translate his notoriety into something more reputable and lucrative. So the Emmys were also a chance for Mr. Spicer to cultivate a television industry audience that he may need as he seeks speaking engagements and paid television appearances in his post-White House life.
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DemoTex
(25,390 posts)"Fuck hymn!"
iluvtennis
(19,835 posts)on nearly a daily basis. That is UNACCEPTABLE and I wish the media would stop trying to normalize this shit.
tblue37
(65,227 posts)Remember his scolding April Ryan for shaking her head in disbelief when he trotted out one of his more outrageous lies?
MontanaMama
(23,295 posts)he lost all credibility in that moment. He never got it back. I don't see where he says he was sorry, however.
Paladin
(28,243 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)a grifter-scammer, who will probably become 'rich'. A male Sarah p....
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)cemented before the world that he is a joke, a lighthearted bit of entertainment that, professionally, is never--ever--to be taken seriously.
He's not good looking or glib enough to host The Bachelor or sell real estate, so I don't know what he's got planned for the future. I'm sure Trump has him locked in a nondisclosure agreement that takes up five banker's boxes, so no tell-all book can be in the works. All I know is that I wouldn't buy nails from him if he were working at Home Depot.
He will be a laughingstock wherever he goes or whatever he does.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)nothing better than to end up a greeter at walmart.........
tavernier
(12,369 posts)are greeters at Walmart. I know a few, and they are independent folk who still prefer to earn a few bucks on their own before asking for their kids to supplement their income. I'm sure you didn't mean to degrade them in comparison.
FrodosNewPet
(495 posts)The working class is supported as an ethereal concept. But alas, the occupations of those on the lower end of the economic scale are too often used as fodder for jokes and insults.
Please keep in mind, folks: "Do you want Trumps? Because THAT'S how you get Trumps!"
heaven05
(18,124 posts)status as a 'ameriKKKan celebrity', I hope to degrade him and hope his life is FULL of humiliation. YEAH< yeah, yeah on the "nice people". I know some too. Why is this board so full of people, so=-called liberals ready to fight with each other over PETTY BS when their are far more dangerous people out their ready to take our freedoms and healthcare. I'm 69 and supplement my pay also, I would be a hypocrite to blame the "greeter" for trying to survive....I am sick of all this stupid assed sniping at each other. THIS IS one of the reasons there is no unity among us and one of the reasons this site has degraded to DI2 and holds no more interesting people barring the true liberals here trying to have their voice heard over the cultish BULLSHIT that has emerged here since GE-2016.
TeamPooka
(24,207 posts)SunSeeker
(51,513 posts)tblue37
(65,227 posts)his reputation, and his employability.
monmouth4
(9,686 posts)SunSeeker
(51,513 posts)Yeah, FUCk YOU, Spicey, FUCK YOU VERY MUCH.
robbob
(3,522 posts)Why have I not seen this before? This video clip should be posted in every thread discussing Rethugs and white nazi-onalists! Thanks for bringing this tune to my attention! And thanks to Lilly Allen for telling off the deplorables!
SunSeeker
(51,513 posts)And I've never seen anyone look so cute saying fuck you as Lily. She is adorable.
hatrack
(59,578 posts)Fuck him.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,308 posts)mdbl
(4,973 posts)than watching he himself.
LudwigPastorius
(9,107 posts)We all know you'd still be up there spewing Trump's insane lies if he hadn't tossed you for Scaramucci.
hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)Spicey wants to get back in everyone's good graces.
Tough shit. He treated the journalists horribly. He was demeaning and degrading to people who were just trying to do their jobs. And he loved doing it. You could tell by the smirk on his face.
Screw him. Let Faux News have his sorry ass.
FakeNoose
(32,587 posts)It was in the news the other day, he's a Harvard "Fellow" now. Whatever that means.
I thought maybe he's working for the Harvard Lampoon, but he'd need some kind of ability then.
iamateacher
(1,089 posts)And will need to repent for many more lies. Get thee to a monastery. And then take some of your ill gotten gains and use them to help people.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)man up spicer, you were presidents spokesman and you did your 'job' just like an army guard water -boarded people hundreds of times or a nazi guard ripped babies from moms arms.