The Shameful Embrace of Sean Spicer at the Emmys<br />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<br />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.”<br />His words alluded, obviously, to his fictitious claim — at his very first news conference<br />as the White House press secretary — about the crowds for Trump’s inauguration.<br />This is bigger than any one awards show, as many outraged observers have smartly tweeted<br />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.<br />So Spicer and Anthony Scaramucci and Corey Lewandowski are all graduating to greater recognition and riches, never mind<br />that they willingly promoted, ignored or sugarcoated actions and pronouncements by Trump that went well beyond the established norms of partisan politics<br />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<br />and whether it’s a felony in Hollywood to consume more than 300 calories a meal, because it sure looks that way.
