Two comments about the Scaramuucci incident yesterday:
First, a guy that doesn’t know to manage whether he’s on or off the record when he heads off on a street-punk tirade with a reporter from an unfriendly news outlet is probably not a good choice to be communications director.
Being Trump’s Mini-me is not a qualification.
And second, like the definition of a diplomat as someone sent abroad to lie for his country, a White House spokesman is someone who steps up to lie for the President.
Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders went out of the lawn yesterday to tell a Fox reporter that the Scaramucci flame-out wasn’t the focal point of those in the White House.
“This isn’t something that is all-consuming for us or our staff,” she said.
Puh-leeze, Sarah!
Try to show at least a modicum of respect.
“Most of us in the White House are focused on who has a job out it the country, not who has a job here,” she said.
Right.
Anybody who has been on the inside of a media firestorm knows better.
12:41 pm on July 28, 2017
