{"id":24809,"date":"2017-09-18T23:29:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T23:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24809"},"modified":"2017-09-18T23:29:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T23:29:23","slug":"spicer-makes-fun-of-himself-whats-the-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24809","title":{"rendered":"Spicer makes fun of himself … what’s the big deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Count me as one American who has no problem with former White House press flack Sean Spicer making a surprise guest appearance at the 2017 Emmy Awards show.<\/p>\n

I didn’t watch it live. I have no interest in entertainment awards shows.<\/p>\n

But I heard about Spicer’s surprise cameo this morning. I saw the clip of him coming onstage behind the kind of mobile podium that the comedian Melissa McCarthy made famous in her “Saturday Night Live” skits mocking the embattled press secretary.<\/p>\n

I heard about the “mixed reaction” to Spicer’s appearance. I also saw a column in this morning’s New York Times by one of my favorite columnists, Frank Bruni, who is just outraged that Spicer would do such a thing.<\/p>\n

Good grief, dude. Get a grip.<\/p>\n

I thought Spicer’s act at the Emmys was damn funny. I laughed out loud when I saw it this morning.<\/p>\n

What does it tell me about this guy? It tells me he has a sense of humor. It tells me he doesn’t take himself super-seriously. He was able to poke fun at himself. I also could argue that in showing a self-deprecating side, he also poked a bit of fun at his former boss, Donald J. Trump, the president of the United States of America.<\/p>\n

To the critics of Spicer’s guest gig at the Emmys, I want to say only to chill out. The guy was damn funny.<\/p>\n\n

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Count me as one American who has no problem with former White House press flack Sean Spicer making a surprise guest appearance at the 2017 Emmy Awards show. I didn’t watch it live. I have no interest in entertainment awards shows. But I heard about Spicer’s surprise cameo this morning. I saw the clip of … Continue reading Spicer makes fun of himself … what’s the big deal?<\/span> →<\/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":[13],"tags":[1424,1580,7318,6796,4294],"class_list":["post-24809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-emmys","tag-melissa-mccarthy","tag-sean-spicer","tag-snl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24809","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=24809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24810,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24809\/revisions\/24810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}