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Sean Spicer Resigns as White House Press Secretary After Objecting To Scaramucci Hire (cnbc.com)
CNBC reports: White House press secretary Sean Spicer abruptly resigned Friday after opposing President Donald Trump's appointment of Anthony Scaramucci as communications director. The president asked Spicer to stay in his role, but Spicer said appointing Scaramucci was a major mistake, The New York Times, citing a person with direct knowledge of the conversation. NBC News confirmed the resignation with two people familiar with the matter. Spicer tweeted later that he will continue to serve through August. White House chief of staff Reince Priebus was said to have advocated naming Spicer as press secretary. The two worked at the Republican National Committee before joining the administration. Following Spicer's resignation, Priebus said he supports Scaramucci "100 percent," according to news reports.
I had to check to make sure this wasn't fake news, but seems to be true; it's reported elsewhere: http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/21/...
Melissa McCarthy is signing up for unemployment benefits. So much for the Trump economy.
I mean sure and maybe the Nazgûl can give their rings back to Sauron and become human again
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
I think it's a little silly to think that Rather knew the Killian documents were fakes-- believing that the documents were real killed all respect for him in his chosen profession. and made the capstone to his long career in television the fact that he was a dupe. The exposure of fake documents very plausibly led to George W. Bush's election, so if he ran with the story because he "hated George W. Bush", he did exactly the opposite of what was intended.
A more real interpretation, however, is that since the faked documents confirmed the worst of exactly what he already believed, he failed to use his journalistic skepticism and just ran with it.
The take-away lesson is to continue to be skeptical even when presented with evidence confirming what you already believe-- in fact, to be particularly skeptical when presented with evidence confirming what you already believe.
Or, in the words of scam-busters: "if it's too good to be true... it probably isn't."
Can Scaramucci do the fandango???
Because that's the most serious thing happening in US politics going on right now.
If you don't like these kinds of stories, why do you bother to open them and comment? I think the answer is obvious; you do care, it makes you angry, and you feel compelled to open such stories, comment on how they don't matter and yet still try to throw out some red herring about the other team.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Press secretaries generally don't say stupid things all the time. They are chosen because they're eloquent, intelligent, well informed, and thoughtful. I.E. not the way Trump's are.
Velociraptor = Distiraptor / Timeraptor
All right, what were you trying to write and why are you too stupid to use the Preview button?
Exactly what I wrote: Nazgûl. If there's an issue with special characters displaying fine in my browser but getting munged across browsers/platforms, that's hardly my fault, yeah?
Also, Slashdot doesn't let people post without previewing, but I suspect you knew that.
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
The conspiracy is even deeper than you think, and yet it is there for all to see, when you know where to look.
If you take all the vowels out of his name, "Reince Priebus" becomes "RNC PR BS".
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
I absolutely agree that he was fucked in his job. Press Secretaries are supposed to help drive the president's agenda, and when yours doesn't have one, that is really hard. Press Secretaries are supposed to work with the president to stay on message, and when the President can't do that, how can he? Super tough job, for sure. But Spicer wasn't anywhere near good enough to even make a half-assed attempt at it.
But just because you're between a rock and a hard place doesn't mean you have to stay stupid shit, or every press secretary ever would be getting the same level of treatment that Spicer got. Hell, he gets Baghdad Bob comparisons! If you're between a rock and a hard place, you don't have to say that Hitler didn't use chemical weapons.
Plenty of competent press secretaries have done this job, and have turned "no comment" into an art form. It's notable when one is unable to do that. Notable enough that their antics get into pop culture. The average joe couldn't name more than 1 other former press secretary. The average joe knows this one.
Velociraptor = Distiraptor / Timeraptor
Thunderbolts and lightening, very very frightening ME!!!
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........