Sean Spicer Attacks WaPo for Not Printing NY Times Exclusive; Twitter Ridicules Him
Not a single mention of big Democrat donor #HarveyWeinstein in hard copy of @washingtonpost pic.twitter.com/qfktuhSfRF
— Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) October 6, 2017
Former Press Secretary Sean Spicer doesn’t tweet often, but when he does, it’s usually to vent about the evils of liberal bias in the media. And on Friday, Spicer was apparently outraged that the print edition of The Washington Post made no mention of bombshell sexual harassment allegations against film mogul Harvey Weinstein.
He tweeted a photo (see above), of the alleged misdead, pointing out that Weinstein is a Democratic Party donor.
Of course, what the communications professional apparently doesn’t understand is that the Weinstein story is a New York Times scoop — and while the Post covered the story extensively on its website, papers are not prone to aggregating a rival’s exclusive in their print edition.
As CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski helpfully explained:
Reworking an aggregation of another outlets exclusive for print isn’t exactly easy.
— andrew kaczynski ? (@KFILE) October 6, 2017
None of this is to mention that Spicer’s former boss, President Donald Trump, has had his own fair share of sexual harassment accusations.
Social media mockery was, as usual, swift and severe:
Congrats, Sean, you have found today’s Dumbest Take
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 6, 2017
1. Because it was a NY Times scoop.
2. You covered for a serial sex offender.
— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) October 6, 2017
What Sean’s saying is it takes a real lowlife to downplay sex crimes, let alone do public relations for sex criminals. https://t.co/vAE2OHg9sA
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) October 6, 2017
They broke a big sexual harassment story last year around this time. Do you remember it? https://t.co/K6c3Xwxgvr
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) October 6, 2017
You’re reading the wrong paper.
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) October 6, 2017
Watching the family members and employees of ***Donald Trump*** go after Weinstein is something else.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 6, 2017
— darth:™ (@darth) October 6, 2017
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