Is the presser delayed to get the cover story in order?
“Sean, do you agree that whoever in the White House provided the information about Nunes is a whistleblower? Do you applaud their actions?”
Ms. McCarthy has a quick change.
Well, Spicer’s about to finish his prepared remarks by touting the Gorsuch nomination. Here we go! I can’t imagine anything but the White-House-Nunes story being the first question.
Edit: I was wrong. They’re talking about the budget and Trump’s tweets about the Freedom Caucus.
BOOOOOO.
Bad reporters. Fake news!!
“I’m going to let the tweet speak for itself.” Everybody drink!
Is it just me, or did Spicer’s voice really start to quaver when trying to answer the question about Nunes? “Am I going to jail?”—that kind of noise?
Fake news! Who you gonna believe, the failing New York Times or my verbal squid ink? I have to admit, he’s doing about as well as you can if you’re trying to justify putting out a bunch of obfuscation to make a crazy person sound less crazy.
I hear the same thing. Spicer is not as stupid as Nunes, and he (Spicer) must be able to at least speculate to himself about where this might end up. Major Garrett is really pushing, too. . . .
If I were there I would ask “Sean, have you retained a private lawyer recently?”
He’s blowing up.
“those are big buckets”??
How about this:
“Sean, you were happy to discuss the ‘whistleblower’ information that Nunes provided. Will you afford the same respect to information coming from whistleblowers in the White House about improper actions”?
Ok, enough. time for sleep.
Spicer says so many ridiculous things that many statements go unnoticed. In refusing to answer a question (and I’ve already forgotten the issue), Spicer literally said, “I said I would look into that, I never said I would report back to you.” It really is like Alice through the looking glass.
It occurs to me that he may be a sniveling toady but he knows the stakes and dangers better than the arrogant newbies he’s working for. He knows which kinds of lies are OK and which are dangerous, and he knows when you’re just spinning and when you’re getting into deception that’s playing with fire from a legal standpoint. So I don’t blame him for getting rattled. I blame him for everything else he does, but not that.