Reaction to Spicers Emmys appearance: Please dont normalize him

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By Samantha Schmidt and Travis M. Andrews September 18 at 7:41 AM
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Colbert calls on Sean Spicer to confirm Emmy crowd size
Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer joins Stephen Colbert on stage to help clarify the crowd size during the 2017 Emmys. (CBS)



Sean Spicer made a surprise appearance at the Emmy Awards on Sunday night, and not everyone was laughing.

Spicer, however, seemed pleased with his appearance. Speaking with Entertainment Weekly afterward, he said that at the awards show, “everyone has been very gracious,” even though “it’s not exactly a Republican crowd.”

For many, it was an attempt to “normalize” a former White House press secretary who repeatedly and blatantly lied to the American people on behalf of President Trump.

Spicer’s joke, mocking his own claims about Trump’s inaugural crowd size, stirred many angry reactions on Twitter within moments of him leaving the stage.......................................................

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I do not think Spicer should have been given a huge audience, such as the Emmy's!! It was wrong.

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[jrthin]

1. I loathe much of Hollywood. Generally speaking, it is an industry of whiteness

and racism wrapped us as entertainment.

[DownriverDem]

2. Did you miss last night?

The winners were diverse.

[Achilleaze]

3. People who lie to the American public, like republican Spice Boy*

deserve a shit sandwich. That is all.

* former propaganda spewer for Comrade Casino, republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[zipplewrath]

4. They made fun of him

The whole joke rested upon the assumption that his statements were lies. He was in essence talked into making a joke out of himself, and by extension, his former boss. It didn't "normalize" him, it pitied him.

[More_Cowbell]

6. Spicer doesn't deserve pity

He was a government employee lying to the public.

[zipplewrath]

8. Actually, it was showing up here that was pitiful

They were making fun of him, and he is so desperate to be liked he showed up just to be with the "in kids". It was pitiful really.

[scipan]

7. I didn't watch but I think it's funny.

People's outrage detectors are set too low a lot lately.

[riversedge]

5. CNN: Hollywood just enabled Sean Spicer and that's not funny.............

Hollywood just enabled Sean Spicer and that's not funny



http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/18/politics/spicer-emmys-speech/index.html


Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large

Updated 11:40 AM ET, Mon September 18, 2017




(CNN)When Sean Spicer rolled a faux presidential podium onto the Emmys stage Sunday night in Los Angeles, a collective gasp went up among the assembled celebrities. Was it really him?? What would he say???

Spicer played his part perfectly -- insisting that "this will be the largest audience to witness the Emmys, period -- both in person and around the world." The crowd laughed. He went backstage and palled around with the beautiful people.
Here's the thing: Not only was the Spicer bit not funny, it shouldn't have happened at all.
Consider, first, the nature of the "joke" here.

Spicer was doing a send-up of his insistence -- the day after President Donald Trump's inauguration -- that "this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period."

That assertion, in the earliest days of the Trump presidency, was a lie. Spicer knew it. But, because Trump was unhappy with the coverage of his inauguration -- and the crowd comparisons to Barack Obama's first inauguration -- he sent Spicer out to lecture the press about how they were fake news. (They weren't.)

That first lie of the Trump White House -- and on such a dumb thing! -- set the course of the administration. Spicer (and, of course, Trump) repeatedly misled or outright lied -- and, even as they were doing it, tried to suggest that they were telling the truth and that the media was in the wrong. (They weren't.).................................





CNN Politics‏Verified account @CNNPolitics 37m37 minutes ago

Sean Spicer's Emmy cameo wasn't funny at all | Analysis by CNN's Chris Cillizza http://cnn.it/2ff5Q23

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[Neema]

9. It reminded me of when Dubya

"looked" under his desk for the WMDs. Like going to war and causing the deaths of untold thousands of people is something to joke about. And people laughed at the time? WTF?