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Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,505 posts)
Tue Jul 24, 2018, 03:53 PM Jul 2018

Sean Spicer's New Book Is Apparently Littered With Dumb Errors

https://splinternews.com/sean-spicers-new-book-is-apparently-littered-with-dumb-1827828511

From the Wall Street Journal’s Tuesday morning review by ABC’s Jonathan Karl:

"Mr. Spicer has not been well served by the book’s fact checkers and copy editors. He refers to the author of the infamous Trump dossier as “Michael Steele,” who is in truth the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, not the British ex-spy Christopher Steele. He recounts a reporter asking Mr. Obama a question at a White House press conference in 1999, a decade before Mr. Obama was elected. There are also some omissions: He writes about working for Rep. Mark Foley (R., Fla.), who he says “knew how to manage the news cycle. And on top of all that, he was good to staff and fun to be around.” He never gets around to mentioning that Mr. Foley later resigned in disgrace for sending sexually explicit messages to teenage boys working as congressional pages."

Aside from the Foley thing, these errors just make Spicer look like the idiot he is known to be—though he’s such a well-documented liar that you can’t help but wonder for a just a nanosecond that he’s on some weird, deliberate campaign of deception.

According to Karl, Spicer also continues his habit of debasing himself for the benefit (pleasure?) of President Donald Trump, calling him at various points a rock star, the Energizer bunny, and even “a unicorn, riding a unicorn over a rainbow.”
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Sean Spicer's New Book Is Apparently Littered With Dumb Errors (Original Post) Guy Whitey Corngood Jul 2018 OP
Well, duh! bigbrother05 Jul 2018 #1
Jonathan Karl gives his blessing and permission gratuitous Jul 2018 #2
And Spicer will go: "Thank you sir!! May I have another?!!" nt Guy Whitey Corngood Jul 2018 #9
. dalton99a Jul 2018 #3
LOL.. ahhh, I miss those SNL spoofs! Wwcd Jul 2018 #6
And this was from the final draft! Wwcd Jul 2018 #4
There's a book I won't have to bother with FakeNoose Jul 2018 #5
He could have gone down in history as a hero janterry Jul 2018 #7
Not well served by his own brain, either. suffragette Jul 2018 #8
Lies and misrepresentation, errors not so much... pbmus Jul 2018 #10
heard a bit of an interview with him on BBC this morning - blithering idiot - constant lies NRaleighLiberal Jul 2018 #11
"a unicorn, riding a unicorn over a rainbow" underpants Jul 2018 #12

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
2. Jonathan Karl gives his blessing and permission
Tue Jul 24, 2018, 03:56 PM
Jul 2018

Watch the right wing media feel free to savage Spicer (not that he doesn't totally deserve it) and his stupid book now that Karl has put the imprimatur on harsh reviews.

Hey Sean, still feeling good about your life choices? Not even your erstwhile friends in the hyena den want anything to do with you.

FakeNoose

(32,748 posts)
5. There's a book I won't have to bother with
Tue Jul 24, 2018, 03:58 PM
Jul 2018

I have so many MUST-READS on my list, I'm happy to exclude this one.

 

janterry

(4,429 posts)
7. He could have gone down in history as a hero
Tue Jul 24, 2018, 04:00 PM
Jul 2018

Well, a tiny hero! He could have become a democrat and told the truth.


Instead, he secures his position as a fool.

Fool.....!!

NRaleighLiberal

(60,019 posts)
11. heard a bit of an interview with him on BBC this morning - blithering idiot - constant lies
Tue Jul 24, 2018, 04:10 PM
Jul 2018

and talking over the interviewer.

Today's republicans are an evolutionary step backwards. Low level intellect, values, and morals in every way.

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