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Pierce: Fire This Man
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a54444/sean-spicer-hitler-gas-syria/...Do it for reasons that are nothing short of humane. He's overmatched out there, by his job, by the sheer venality and incompetence of the president* he serves, and by the English language. Fire Sean Spicer. Do it now, for his own good, before he says something that causes some group to storm the Press Briefing Room and light him on fire....
There is no way for White House to spin this. It is, or ought to be, a career-killer for a spokesperson. I don't know what they teach folks in Flack School but, surely, don't talk about Hitler from behind a podium with a presidential seal on it has to be no worse than Lesson Number Three. My guess is that's been an iron rule for White House press secretaries since V-E Day....
Spicer was clearly trapped up there by the administration's ever-evolving rationale for blowing up a Syrian cafeteria the other day. He was trying to turn a simple act of sophisticated destruction into a blow for humanity and a landmark in the fight against tyranny. (Why shouldn't he? After all, many very important pundits called it exactly that.) But the Syrian government was back using the airfield the next day, and the administration seems to be on both sides of a civil war in which one side is backed by Russia.
No spokesman in the history of the world—not even St. Paul, who was probably the best one ever—could sell this lemon of a story. So Spicer went groping after some threadbare bit of historical justification and fell all the way down the well. He has to go, for his own good.
There is no way for White House to spin this. It is, or ought to be, a career-killer for a spokesperson. I don't know what they teach folks in Flack School but, surely, don't talk about Hitler from behind a podium with a presidential seal on it has to be no worse than Lesson Number Three. My guess is that's been an iron rule for White House press secretaries since V-E Day....
Spicer was clearly trapped up there by the administration's ever-evolving rationale for blowing up a Syrian cafeteria the other day. He was trying to turn a simple act of sophisticated destruction into a blow for humanity and a landmark in the fight against tyranny. (Why shouldn't he? After all, many very important pundits called it exactly that.) But the Syrian government was back using the airfield the next day, and the administration seems to be on both sides of a civil war in which one side is backed by Russia.
No spokesman in the history of the world—not even St. Paul, who was probably the best one ever—could sell this lemon of a story. So Spicer went groping after some threadbare bit of historical justification and fell all the way down the well. He has to go, for his own good.
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