Katie Zacharia Is Fired After 5 Days as White House Press Secretary(www.nytimes.com)

28 pointsby mikelgan3 hours ago3 comments

toomuchtodo3 hours ago
Half of a Scaramucci!
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- mft_3 hours ago
  :)
  He was lightheartedly discussing this on the podcast he shares with Katty Kay the other day.
  I suspect a Scaramucci is too well embedded by now, and Ms. Zacharia is otherwise too unknown. His legacy is probably safe!
  - jacquesm2 hours ago
    Of course. He had twice as long to get his name out there. There probably is an optimum. What was the name of that previous press secretary again, the one before half a Scaramucci?
- jacquesm3 hours ago
  Hehe, that's exactly what I thought. It's going to be very hard to beat this one.
treetalker2 hours ago
Outlasted by the cabbage!
pmdulaney3 hours ago
Some people's brains semi turn off when they speak in front of a crowd. I would say that there was some hubris involved -- not on her part but on Trump's. Ten hours of training probably would have made all the difference. There is perhaps an unconscious sense that exceptionally attractive people are also exceptional in their skills.
- pirates2 hours ago
  Exceptionally attractive is not the phrase many would use to describe her. I think a particular person likes this particular look and that’s as much thought that goes into it.
- mono442an hour ago
  do people really write '--' if they want to write an em dash or has the comment been just generated by an ai?