Monday Jul 24: “We have what we call in the Wall St business an arbitrage spread between how we feel about the President, and how the people and the media feel.” With that quote on Friday, I think I’m going to like the new White House Communications Director, Anthony Scaramucci.
Sean Spicer officially resigned. In reality, he resigned after the Holocaust comment, really; but Friday July 21 2017 can be the date on the calendar liberals can celebrate. No one comes back from a Holocaust comment followed by an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN.
But if I’m honest I took the Under with Sean Spicer as Press Secretary, and I think I missed by 1 day (6 months +1?). He didn’t look comfortable, he seemed to want to antagonize the press when he could, and when he took a beating up there at the podium day after day, he didn’t seem to want it so much or like it anymore.Press conferences dropped off, they went audio-only, and he consistently put out Number 2 Sarah Huckabee-Sanders more often.
I thought she had taken over the job officially a month ago, frankly. Sean just didn’t want to come out. Which was weird because Saturday Night Live is in hiatus now so he did not have to worry about Melissa McCarthey lampooning him every weekend.
New guy Anthony Scaramucci is standing tall up there in front of the press corps as I write. He’s taking questions, he’s going around the room, and he’s already doing a better job than Spicer by saying, “I’m not going to answer that because it’s a hypothetical,” more than once. Good! We also would have accepted ‘hypothetical nonsense’ or just ‘nonsense’ for that answer as well.
The press is really befuddled why Spicer got the axe – I mean resigned. What hypocrites! They’ve been after him since Day 1 asking him stupid questions that have nothing to do with the agenda of the day. And they have actively gone out of their way to make Spicer look bad – the more stupid the question, inevitably the explanation is often worse.
What else could the media be doing on this beautiful Friday afternoon? Pretell what other stories are abound, certainly none as important as this surreptitious hiring/resigning. Oh I don’t know, Japan and China want to go to war with each other; North Korea wants – anything; the entire Gulf Arab States (GAS) have boycotted Qatar for diplomatic ties to Iran (nice, good to see someone taking a stand), the Palestinians are about to declare another fatwah on Israel for putting metal detectors around the Holy City; Russia, the myriad investigations relating thereto and the fact that our Attorney General Jeff Sessions can’t participate in any damn part of it because he’s recused himself – which means he’s recused from every folder and letter on his desk; healthcare stalemate …. I could go on (I just don’t feel l ike Google’ing “Friday Top Stories”).
Scaramucci’s confirmation just wasn’t complete until he gets face-time on CNN, preferably with one of their more whack-job anchors. Oh look, there he is Sunday on State of the Union with Jake Tapper! Fantastic, who needs to binge-watch the Kardashians to see crazy when you have Tapps screaming his head off for thirty minutes. Egads, Jake needs to try and unwind his distorted reality from his broadcasts – Does this guy have a producer, or at least a team of psychiatrists, to follow him around?
Well there’s not much further I can go with this today as we have a big week ahead – Jared Kushner in secret session with Congress, Paul Manafort and Don Junior in open session, the identity of the “Eight Man” (spoiler alert: It’s the translator), tweets from the President – you know, all the usual stuff.
