Sean Spicer Schools Reporter With Hilarious Response
By Kyle Drennen | March 10, 2017 | 4:06 PM EST
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During Friday’s White House press briefing, Bloomberg correspondent Justin Sink pressed Sean Spicer on whether the administration was “too excited” by a positive February jobs report released that morning: “Obviously you guys were excited by the jobs report, but maybe a little too excited. Both you and the President tweeting within an hour of the jobs data coming out, which is a violation of the federal rules....what do you say generally to critics who say the risk of doing this is politicizing what should be kind of non-partisan, by-the-books job data?”
Spicer pointed out the absurdity of the question and even referenced his Saturday Night Live alter-ego portrayed by Melissa McCarthy: “I think tweeting out, ‘Great way to start a Friday, here are the actual numbers that you all have reported’ is a bit – I mean, don't make me make the podium move.” The entire press corps, including Sink, erupted in laughter.
The press secretary continued: “I mean, honest to God, like every reporter here reported out that we had 235,000 jobs, 4.7. There isn't a TV station that didn't go live to it, so to tweet out, ‘Great way to start a Friday,’ I think, yes, the President was excited to see more Americans back to work.”
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