Agreed. As long as she’s bullshitting, she would have done better to just claim that Comey’s firing had nothing to do with the investigation. Instead it looks like she tried (and failed) to put a positive spin on it, rather than make an outright lie.
I’d say that as the Whitehouse’s spokesperson, falsehood is a requisite.
Now I’m intrigued. In what regards do you consider Spicer to be the better spokesperson?
I certainly think he is (was?) better for the *opposition *— railing on the press, constantly tripping over his own tongue, and frequently being caught unprepared for what should have been obvious questions. I’d like to see this guy try to play a game of poker or sell a used car. I think he’s the embodiment of anti-spin.
Maybe I should double check my thread title. Did I accidentally write “Let’s quibble over what suddenly happened to the Spiceman”? Nope. Seems I invited people to weigh in on the performance of the Deputy White House press secretary.
That said, thank you D’Aconia, for providing a possible, if questionable, explanation for Spicer’s absence.
I did not know Spicer was in the Navy Reserve, nor that this required him to perform monthly and annual service duty. So that’s interesting.
I also did not know he wore the Easter Bunny suitfor the Bush’s Easter Egg Roll in 2006. Fascinating!
Mr. Spicer was 3 miles away, doing his reserve duty at the Pentagon. He wasn’t benched, and his reserve duty wasn’t for two weeks in the woods, or something.
Why people post completely false information on a message board supposedly dedicated to fighting ignorance is beyond me.
Thank you, again, for helping to fight my ignorance.
Now, would you care to share your opinions on the recent performance of the Deputy White House press secretary?
I didn’t say he wasn’t there. I was suspicious of the timing, both that specific incident and the fact it’s not the normal schedule the Navy posts on their website.
He’s been allowed to skip several months in a row and it just happens it was scheduled in advance to coincide with a major fuckup?
Are you going to deny this Administration does not instill confidence in their truthfullness?
But that’s fine if those who hear it expect it, fact-check it immediately, and call the administration out on it. Those who believe anyway have to *want *to believe, and so cannot be reached.
Pity he doesn’t have a boss who can reassign him to a duty where he’s needed more.
This is where I think she’s at least better for the administration than Spicer.
Her lies and half-truths are a lot easier to swallow than Spicer’s flustered sputterings.
They have enough of the semblance of truth and reasonableness about them that the believers will be satisfied and the lazy won’t bother to scrutinize.
So, if she does take over from Spicer, it would, IMHO, be a bad thing for those hoping to expose the lies and shenanigans of the White House.
But you want to know the ***REAL ***reason I posted such a blatant falsehood!?
Shit, you’ve really got me in a corner here guv’ner.
But alright then.
It’s a fair cop.
The jig’s up.
The ***REAL ***reason I dared to suggest Spicer had been “benched” is because . . .
(Are you ready for this?)
. . . ***I did not know ***. . . that Mr. Spicer had allegedly taken leave for service duties.
The *impression *I got from what I heard, and that I still feel is not at all an unreasonable suspicion, was that Spicer has been sidelined because of his poor handling of the controversy surrounding Comey’s firing.
As to my misinformed and apparently unforgivable assumption that Spicer had been “benched”, please note that, right or wrong, I am not alone in this speculation.
I wouldn’t accuse Sarah of lying. She’s only using the talking points that’s the administration gave her. You don’t have to slander her for doing her job.
Trump himself pointed out that he doesn’t feel the need to keep his representatives in the loop.
Sarah and Spicer have a thankless job. The angry reporters are like a hungry pack of jackals. Nobody is going to to shine throwing raw meat to them. Sarah is lucky to still have both her arms.
Given the situation and limited information, Sarah did the best job possible.
The hatred for her bosses shouldn’t ooze onto her.
So she’s heard from countless people in the FBI, even though she doesn’t know that many in the FBI. Even in a hypothetical world where everyone in the FBI is celebrating Comey being gone, why would they reach out to the Deputy White House Press Secretary, but not the media?
She’s gonna need Kelly Anne Conway’s power of spin to explain this tweet of hers:
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“When you’re attacking FBI agents because you’re under criminal investigation, you’re losing”*
