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| GIANGRECO: Reconsider his fate? |
But in the sense that stuff all too quickly becomes ancient history in the modern-day news cycle, we see that Giangreco’s real offense may be that he was way too mild in dealing with Donald J. Trump.
BECAUSE
ONLY THE hard-core idiotic ideologues are going to be ranting and raging about
that snotty Chicago sportscaster whose offense, when you come right down to it,
is that he agreed with someone else that Trump is – to put it mildly – not a
decent public official.
For
Trump is the one who on Friday had a spectacle made of himself when his
spokesman, Sean Spicer (a.k.a., Melissa McCarthy, in drag) made a point of
deliberately excluding specific newsgathering organizations from his daily
press briefly.
The
only point of which, by the way, is to make the day’s official pronouncements
for the benefit of news media organizations!
As
it turns out, the Chicago Tribune’s White House correspondent (who also does
duties for the Los Angeles Times and the other newspapers that are a part of
Tronc, Inc.) was among those given the boot.
WHO’S
TO SAY why? There probably isn’t a real reason why, other than they were there.
Or maybe Trump thinks he’s snubbing Barack Obama’s hometown newspaper? It’s all
a batch of nonsense.
But
one day after the ABC-owned station in Chicago suspends their sports guy
without pay because he was too harsh about Trump, the president goes and does
things that make him seem even more petty and pathetic than we’d ever imagined.
Now
perhaps I should make one point clear. Maybe there’s a chance that Spicer took
his Friday actions (which limited White House news access to organizations like
the Washington Times that want to view the Trump presidency as something
heroic) without Trump’s advance knowledge or approval.
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| TRUMP: Too easy to take pot shots at! |
Although if that turns out to be true, he ought to be canned for putting his boss in an embarrassing predicament.
BECAUSE
THERE’S NO way this controversy of selectively picking and choosing news orgs
based on which ones are willing to plant their lips on your bottom does
anything other than make the boss look petty and childish.
It
makes me wonder if Giangreco is now somehow owed an apology for the negative
actions taken against him on Thursday? Or at least to be put back on the
payroll and allowed to work again!
For
the record, Giangreco agreed with a Toronto Star reporter who used a Twitter
account to call Trump, “a hateful, corrupt, ignorant simpleton.” To which
Giangreco used his own account to say, “so obvious, so disturbing. America
exposed as a country full of simpletons who allowed this cartoon lunatic to be
elected.”
Which,
by some standards, is a fairly mild thing to write. Anybody who scours the
Internet knows full well that much nastier, and cruder, comments are written
every day. Including about Trump himself. Truly effective leaders, both in business and government, are the types of people who can rise above it all.
YOU’D
THINK HE’D be a “big boy” and capable of handling this – what with him
supposedly being the overly successful international business executive. But it
seems he’s not.
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| How over-the-top could Melissa McCarthy (as Spicer) be this week? |
Which is why he has his people hand-picking which reporter-types are permitted to hear the official pronouncements being spewed by the spokesman. Because that is the truth of the situation – the reporters excluded didn’t miss anything of substance.
Most
news briefings, particularly those of the D.C. persuasion, as so loaded with
gunk and partisan spin as to be functionally worthless for getting legitimate information.
Any federal reporter worth anything is not relying on the briefing for stories.
Which
may be the way in which Trump winds up putting his own boot up his behind –
reporters excluded from the briefing will have time to pursue real information
that may well wind up making the president look even more ridiculous and realize
he should have just let the reporters into the briefing to begin with.
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