L’affaire Scaramucci

Two comments about the Scaramuucci incident yesterday:

First, a guy that doesn’t know to manage whether he’s on or off the record when he heads off on a street-punk tirade with a reporter from an unfriendly news outlet is probably not a good choice to be communications director.

Being Trump’s Mini-me is not a qualification.

And second, like the definition of a diplomat as someone sent abroad to lie for his country, a White House spokesman is someone who steps up to lie for the President.

Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders went out of the lawn yesterday to tell a Fox reporter that the Scaramucci flame-out wasn’t the focal point of those in the White House.

“This isn’t something that is all-consuming for us or our staff,” she said.

Puh-leeze, Sarah!

Try to show at least a modicum of respect.

“Most of us in the White House are focused on who has a job out it the country, not who has a job here,” she said.

Right.

Anybody who has been on the inside of a media firestorm knows better.

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