Media bigwigs expressed outrage over former White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s cameo appearance on the Emmy Awards program last night, slapping the bit as an attempt to normalize his role in misleading the American public.
They should get off their high horses and remember that Spicer was just the messenger of President Trump.
He’s the wrong guy to blame for the alternative facts and magical thinking favored by Team Trump.
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Appearing behind a podium last night, Spicer replayed one of his biggest whoppers, saying, “This will be the largest audience to witness an Emmys. Period! Both in person and around the world.”
That line reprised one that Spicer used to describe the skimpy audience at Trump’s inauguration.
The Big Media players ripped into the ex-press secretary. CNN’s Brian Stelter felt it was “inappropriate” for host and comedian Stephen Colbert to be laughing with Spicer.
GQ’s Keith Olbermann tweeted: “Shame on the Emmys for the Spicer validation. He is dedicated to demeaning our craft and restricting our freedoms of speech.”
And this doozy from Seth Abramson who comments on CNN and MSNBC: “When US history records the crimes of this administration---and the names of its enablers—Sean Spicer on the Emmys will be a very bad look.”
The comments were overblown.
Spicer’s appearance was a shocker, newsy and simply funny. I was hoping for a joint appearance with Spicer and his Saturday Night Live counterpart Melissa McCarthy.
Let’s forget the instant analysis and media bloviating about Spicer's spot because in words supposedly said by Sigmund Freud, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”
Spicer wasn’t exactly the staunchest or most-willing Trump supporter.
He’s the guy who famously ducked into some bushes to dodge reporters, trotted out Sarah Huckabee Sanders to face reporters and resigned with the appointment of The Mooch as White House communications director.
That resignation is more than Trump’s ineffectual Attorney General and Secretary of State have done.
Spicer though is apparently cursed. At the Emmys, he couldn’t break his old habit of telling tall ones or overpromising and then underdelivering.
The 69th Emmy Awards didn’t attract the most viewers ever, as “promised” by Spicey. It was just the opposite. A little more than 11.3M people tuned in, which tied last year’s program as the all-time low.
Colbert did worse than last year’s host Jimmy Kimmel in the important 18-49 age bracket, scoring a 2.5 rating compared to 2.8 last year.
Was the 69th Emmy Awards show a ratings flop because of Colbert or the program’s steady bashing of our Teflon-president?
What would Sean say?
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