Sean Spicer holds court at his book launch party in DC. pic.twitter.com/NTSbe7KGjB
— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) July 24, 2018
No
— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) July 25, 2018
Just another two-bit apparatchik in the machinery:
… There was a time, not too long ago, when people were forecasting a gloomy outlook for Spicer’s post–White House career. His six months behind the podium as President Trump’s press secretary had been defined in the public consciousness by a blur of brazen lies and barely trying spin—his sputtering press briefings immortalized on Saturday Night Live, his legacy shaped by his most humiliating meltdowns. (Remember the “Holocaust centers”?)
When he resigned, outside observers mercifully unschooled in the ways of Washington assumed that his role as an agent of misinformation—and his willing participation in Trump’s culture war on the press—would result in some sort of negative consequence for the career communications professional.
How quaint…
Standing amid a throng of fans, his face illuminated by camera light—the event was being covered by C-SPAN and RT, as well as another roving camera crew—Spicer reveled in his triumph.
“I’m having a blast and enjoying this, and frankly I’m blessed by the amount of opportunities that have come my way,” Spicer told me. “And that’s a pretty good way to go through life.”…
Once you’ve sold your (tiny, low-rent) soul, that feeling of weightlessness!
GoFundMe for an extra space heater in every cell in hell where anyone associated with Sean Spicer's book is destined to spend eternity.
— Regina Schrambling (@gastropoda) July 24, 2018
Uhhh https://t.co/0tBOFn9vgw pic.twitter.com/ajstPOI7G3
— Joe Perticone (@JoePerticone) July 24, 2018
Well, they did as much fact checking doing their jobs as he did doing his.
— Character Matters ??? (@HuskerSteve2) July 24, 2018
AT A BJ’S WAREHOUSE CLUB, not a bookstore:
Spicer’s book signing in Massachusetts canceled "due to the political climate" https://t.co/h34BSRtwGN
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) July 25, 2018
Not revealing the author until the end of the piece paid MAJOR laugh dividends here pic.twitter.com/60i2xo5Qmd
— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo) July 25, 2018
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