{"id":20419,"date":"2017-03-17T21:37:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T21:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20419"},"modified":"2017-03-17T21:37:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T21:37:04","slug":"how-long-can-spicer-keep-defending-the-indefensible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20419","title":{"rendered":"How long can Spicer keep defending the indefensible?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I believe it&#8217;s a reasonable question: How much longer can Sean Spicer keep defending a president who is unable to tell the truth?<\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump keeps trotting out whopper after whopper, putting his press secretary in a patently untenable position of having to defend what he <em>must<\/em> know is a lie.<\/p>\n<p>Brent Budowsky, a contributor to The Hill, posits the notion that Spicer should quit and that he well might become one of the president&#8217;s most high-profile casualties in his ongoing war with the truth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/pundits-blog\/the-administration\/324499-spicer-should-resign-as-white-house-press-secretary\">Here is Budowsky&#8217;s essay for The Hill.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I believe Spicer has\u00a0principles. Sadly &#8212; in my view, at least &#8212; he\u00a0seems to have\u00a0taken some sort of secret oath to bury them while he briefs the media about the president&#8217;s torrent of untruths.<\/p>\n<p>The Barack Obama wiretapping fiction is the latest example. Spicer surely <em>knows<\/em> the president doesn&#8217;t have a shred of evidence to back up his allegation that Obama wiretapped his offices at Trump Tower. Then he is forced to dance this rhetorical jig with the media about so-called &#8220;air quotes&#8221; around the word &#8220;wiretap,&#8221; meaning that Trump didn&#8217;t mean what he said.<\/p>\n<p>How long can this guy Spicer, who was Republican National Committee press secretary before joining the White House staff, continue this charade?<\/p>\n<p>Everyone has his or her limits. <em>Everyone<\/em>. Even White House press spokesmen.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe it&#8217;s a reasonable question: How much longer can Sean Spicer keep defending a president who is unable to tell the truth? Donald J. Trump keeps trotting out whopper after whopper, putting his press secretary in a patently untenable position of having to defend what he must know is a lie. Brent Budowsky, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20419\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How long can Spicer keep defending the indefensible?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[540,1424,3967,6796,5249,6973],"class_list":["post-20419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-rnc","tag-sean-spicer","tag-white-house-press-office","tag-wiretapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20420,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20419\/revisions\/20420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}