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Sean Spicer literally hid in bushes to avoid the press yesterday

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https://theweek.com/speedreads/697923/sean-spicer-literally-hid-bushes-avoid-press-yesterday

Sean Spicer literally hid in bushes to avoid the press yesterday

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After an interview with Fox Business on Tuesday night from the White House grounds, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer "disappeared into the shadows, huddling with his staff behind a tall hedge" to avoid an encounter with the press, The Washington Post reports.

"To get back to his office, Spicer would have to pass a swarm of reporters wanting to know why President Trump suddenly decided to fire the FBI director," James Comey, the Post writes. Spicer wasn't eager to answer that question; he had shouted out the news at about 5:40 p.m. from the press briefing room, then locked himself in his office to avoid doing so.

But Spicer couldn't stay hidden forever. Once outside, he tried "speed-walking up the White House drive to defend the president" with Kellyanne Conway and Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, but was pounced on by the press:

After Spicer spent several minutes hidden in the bushes behind [the Fox News and CNN outdoor sets], Janet Montesi, an executive assistant in the press office, emerged and told reporters that Spicer would answer some questions, as long as he was not filmed doing so. Spicer then emerged.

"Just turn the lights off. Turn the lights off," he ordered. "We'll take care of this. ... Can you just turn that light off?"

Spicer got his wish and was soon standing in near darkness between two tall hedges, with more than a dozen reporters closely gathered around him.

[...] Exactly 10 minutes after he started answering questions, Spicer stopped. "Anyway," Spicer said abruptly, "thank you, guys." [The Washington Post]​

Spicer gets a brief reprieve from his ongoing nightmare Wednesday — Huckabee Sanders will hold the press briefing while Spicer is at the Pentagon the rest of the week for Navy reserve duty. Whatever it takes. Jeva Lange
 
I liked that joke from the comedian at the white house correspondent's dinner about how Sean is planning on faking his own death 😀
 
Fanatical Meat said:
This weekends SNL should be epic
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Or the opposite. When reality descends into what would previously have been considered to be completely absurd, then where has comedy got to go from there? The only idea I can think of would be some kind of cross between spoofing the X-Files Deep Throat scenes and mixing it up with 'Scary Movie' with the ghost-face killer attempting to hide:


Even then that doesn't get to the crux of the point, being the spokesperson for one of the most powerful figures on the planet is reduced to hiding in the bushes rather than do his job. The mind boggles.

I would have thought that Spicer would just resign rather than do anything as humiliating as that. Any hope for a future job in a similarly lofty position is basically gone now, whereas before this it would have been a semi-reasonable argument to say that he maintained professionalism even when trying to cover for a complete pleb.
 
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I saw a late night bit earlier. I'm not sure which show but at the end one potential FBI Director candidate was Don T-Dogg Rump or similarly named it was Trump in disguise as Dog the bounty hunter.
 
Fanatical Meat said:
I saw a late night bit earlier. I'm not sure which show but at the end one potential FBI Director candidate was Don T-Dogg Rump or similarly named it was Trump in disguise as Dog the bounty hunter.
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Wouldn't take much to morph those two.

Edit: waiting for those Photoshop creative juices to flow.
 
SNL could honestly do a spoof episode at this point where they didn't actually act anything. Just have an hour of legit footage and a talking head explaining what happened that week. No need to mess with perfection.
 
[DHT]Osiris said:
SNL could honestly do a spoof episode at this point where they didn't actually act anything. Just have an hour of legit footage and a talking head explaining what happened that week. No need to mess with perfection.
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that's pretty much what they've been doing, adding in the occasional beyond reality gag, but overall, they're just re-creating reality.
 
Sorry no link but I saw a Facebook book post about (Melissa) Sean Spicer driving the podium around NYC

Edit here's the video

 
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