The Shameful Embrace of Sean Spicer at the Emmys
- 7 years ago
The Shameful Embrace of Sean Spicer at the Emmys
For anyone who missed the show or hasn’t caught wind of the brouhaha since, Spicer came onto the stage behind the kind of podium
that Melissa McCarthy used in her impersonations of him and told the Emmys host, Stephen Colbert, “This will be the largest audience to witness an Emmys, period — both in person and around the world.”
His words alluded, obviously, to his fictitious claim — at his very first news conference
as the White House press secretary — about the crowds for Trump’s inauguration.
This is bigger than any one awards show, as many outraged observers have smartly tweeted
and as I examined in a recent column about the hasty and successful gold rush by people who have earned renown or notoriety — I’m not sure those nouns are so distinct from each other anymore — as a result of their time with Trump.
So Spicer and Anthony Scaramucci and Corey Lewandowski are all graduating to greater recognition and riches, never mind
that they willingly promoted, ignored or sugarcoated actions and pronouncements by Trump that went well beyond the established norms of partisan politics
I’m an awards-show geek who usually spends the morning after the Emmys or Oscars nattering about who was unjustly robbed, who was unwisely dressed
and whether it’s a felony in Hollywood to consume more than 300 calories a meal, because it sure looks that way.
For anyone who missed the show or hasn’t caught wind of the brouhaha since, Spicer came onto the stage behind the kind of podium
that Melissa McCarthy used in her impersonations of him and told the Emmys host, Stephen Colbert, “This will be the largest audience to witness an Emmys, period — both in person and around the world.”
His words alluded, obviously, to his fictitious claim — at his very first news conference
as the White House press secretary — about the crowds for Trump’s inauguration.
This is bigger than any one awards show, as many outraged observers have smartly tweeted
and as I examined in a recent column about the hasty and successful gold rush by people who have earned renown or notoriety — I’m not sure those nouns are so distinct from each other anymore — as a result of their time with Trump.
So Spicer and Anthony Scaramucci and Corey Lewandowski are all graduating to greater recognition and riches, never mind
that they willingly promoted, ignored or sugarcoated actions and pronouncements by Trump that went well beyond the established norms of partisan politics
I’m an awards-show geek who usually spends the morning after the Emmys or Oscars nattering about who was unjustly robbed, who was unwisely dressed
and whether it’s a felony in Hollywood to consume more than 300 calories a meal, because it sure looks that way.