Sean Spicer.... time to resign
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How many pundits do we hear make a Hitler comparison? It was bad on Spicer but the press on this is way over the top.
Honestly, I am not a Spicer fan, but he has a tough job. Major media companies have become anti-Trump. CNN is downright unprofessional and the plain janes of the world don't get they are gettting extremely biased news
The CNN web site currently has 5 different headlines/stories about the Spicer remark. Sad to think someone at CNN believes this minor statement warrants 5 stories.
Honestly, I am not a Spicer fan, but he has a tough job. Major media companies have become anti-Trump. CNN is downright unprofessional and the plain janes of the world don't get they are gettting extremely biased news
The CNN web site currently has 5 different headlines/stories about the Spicer remark. Sad to think someone at CNN believes this minor statement warrants 5 stories.
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If that comment was from an Oklahoma staffer from their page program you would have all the libs up in arms over another drummed up controversy.
How many pundits have the title "White House Press Secretary"?
His job is to communicate clearly with the media/public. Stop making excuses for his incompetence.
He screwed up badly, and he is being called out on it. And he keeps doing it. Give me a break with "he has a tough job". It is not that tough to think before you speak, or to plan before you get up to make a statement. It is called "his job".
He screwed up badly??? You mean so bad that CNN would have 5 different headlines and the House Minority Leader would call for him to be fired? Sorry but a minor misstatement is not nearly on par with this politically based false controversy.
Was there any controversy when a Josh Earnest said that the Benghazi was just "intended to tear down Clinton's poll numbers"? Or when he referred to fighting ISIS as "just a narrative"? Or did Pelosi call on him to be fired when he slipped and said "China was engaged in malicious cyber activity to destabilize our political system"? Or when he called Yemen "a success story"? Or when Earnest double down on Obama's claim of ISIS being a JV team because "that has not been proven to be false".
"Even Hitler didn't..." Start it there. He wasn't the WORST - he had redeeming qualities. Just rehab him a little bit. He may have been ornery but he wouldn't gas people! Just a nudge in the direction of normal.
Note that the statement 1. Is flatly untrue and 2. subtly pushes a side narrative (Hitler wasn't that bad) while criticizing a notorious villain.
Note that the statement 1. Is flatly untrue and 2. subtly pushes a side narrative (Hitler wasn't that bad) while criticizing a notorious villain.
Left-wingers reluctantly, if ever, step down or apologize. And they reluctantly, if ever, give up power. They know how to get and keep power -- with an iron fist.
Eddie always talked about "valentines"; this crap is always about fitting the "narrative".
As an aside, we just switched from U-V to DirectTV; hell, they don't even include CNN in their "news" channel listings!
What a joke come on libs stop the gotcha crap. Spicer should double down tomorrow.
"Sean Spicer's comment wasn't the WORST faux pas of the week" REALLY isn't an effective defense of the job he's doing.
Dodge, defend, deflect.
Just saying.
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When you KNOW the mainstream media is against you, you absolutely....postively....cannot not give them easy wins like this.
They are all about ratings. You can't make statements guaranteed to give them ratings.
Bland....vanilla....always on message....accountant like in it's boringness. That is what is needed.
I don't think that would go as well as you think it would. But I agree with JD. This job needs to go to a boring news reader.
Come on man, don't start going all conventional/reasonable/Presidential on me now...
I don't understand why this is so difficult for some to grasp. It should be OK for everyone to say, "That guy is on my team, but, yeah, he really sucks".
"Sean Spicer might be the only Press Secretary who needs a Press Secretary"- Jimmy Kimmel
Spicer is the only thing that buys Trump any space. All the bluster and bullshit momentarily shifts the gravity of the MSM focus. I don't think anything he says isn't measured for effect.
I think the contention that he is a deliberate idiot that deliberately says idiotic things as a distraction is a ridiculous one.
Spicer certainly hasn't performed very well, and this may be the last straw for him in his role, but I'm tired of media screaming "fire the guy" everytime someone they don't like make any type of gaff. If we fired every Washington hack the moment they said something stupid, the average DCer would be employed about 3 months.
He's the White House Press Secretary. This isn't about the media having it out for him. This is about him not showing that he is qualified to live up to his job description.
Bullshit. We don't even hold presidents to such standards. It's not like he set the terrorist state of Iran on a pathway to possessing and using nuclear weapons, or proclaiming to Russia he could help it more after the inconvenience of reelection was over, or proclaiming such nonsense as...
If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.
Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states. I think one left to go?
If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor.
I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.
I laugh when I think the left has been reduced to taking potshots at various members of the Trump Administration these days to get their jollies. They are learning their role well. I hope they enjoy life in Loserville.
I would forgive an idiotic statement, by the president, before I would forgive one from the guy who has "don't say idiotic things" in his job description.
The president shouldn't say ridiculous things either (be it Obama, Trump, or anyone else). Especially when he is reading a prepared speech/statement. But, "it was a gaff" is no excuse for the WH Press Secretary. In this case, he stood in front of a microphone and said something moronic all on his own. He had plenty of time to plan what he was going to say. No one tricked him into saying it. No one asked him a question that he was not prepared to answer.
I laugh when members of the right are so dug in that they are unable to objectively look at a member of the Trump Administration and accept that he appears to be incapable of handling his job responsibilities. Just because he is a member of the Trump administration should not mean that he has a build in force field.
The way he climbed the ranks in his profession don't point to a person bad at his job. Particularly, this bad.
Yeah, Jay Carney, Obama's press secretary, was always so polished, smooth, correct and on message. Keep yappin'.
Can someone enlighten me on exactly what failures he has had besides this gaff and the absurdly contentious day one? Maybe I missed the weekly gaff's that's being attributed to him. And just because he has "don't say stupid things" in his job description doesn't make one offense fireable. I imagine lawyers have "win cases" in their job description. They don't get fired the first time they lose a case. I have Unix Administrator in my job description, yet when I've screwed up a server my company didn't just fire me (thankfully). If its a mistake and he's properly owned it (which he has), then its forgivable. At least he didn't do the standard politician: "My comments were misconstrued or were taken out of context" bs.
If these gaffs are a constant pattern, then its an issue that requires addressing. Can you show me the constant pattern of screw-ups? If so, then you have a point and he may be in over his head and need replacing, but if not, then you are just another lib looking for an excuse to be aggrieved by this administration.
If these gaffs are a constant pattern, then its an issue that requires addressing. Can you show me the constant pattern of screw-ups? If so, then you have a point and he may be in over his head and need replacing, but if not, then you are just another lib looking for an excuse to be aggrieved by this administration.
