.MaddowBlog: The first White House press secretary to have it easy during a scandal.
Over the last half-century, there have been more than a few instances in which White House press secretaries, serving during presidential scandals, would’ve preferred to have very different jobs. During Watergate, Iran-Contra, the Clinton impeachment affair, and plenty of other controversies, the White House briefing room was filled with reporters demanding answers to tough questions, pushing press secretaries who often weren’t sure how to defend their boss in the Oval Office.
[Grisham said] the press briefings under Sean Spicer and Sanders had become “theater,” with reporters using the opportunity to ask questions of the government as a chance to become “famous.” For what it’s worth, there’s all kinds of evidence of Trump failing spectacularly to demonstrate loyalty toward “his people.” For that matter, it’s not the job of White House reporters to be “good” to presidential press secretaries.
It led The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser to publish some tweets of her own, featuring questions the press secretary might consider answering:
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