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- Naturally, the media followed. And after the TV segments were done, Spicer literally hid with his staff behind a tall hedge trying to decide what to do. (Oh, to have been a spider in that hedge.) “After Spicer spent several minutes hidden in the bushes behind these sets,” as a major American newspaper writes of a senior White House official, he emerged, told reporters to turn their lights and cameras off, and answered questions in the dark, between two bushes, for about 10 minutes.
As I read in another article about this, it would be a funny TV show. Except it's not. In real life, it's terrifying and not funny at all. Well, I have to admit, I lol'ed at the image. Still, more terrifying than funny.It seems Spicer was originally planning on revealing the firing in an emailed statement, but some sort of technical issue prevented him from sending it fast enough. So he did the reasonable thing and shouted the news to reporters who happened to be hanging out outside his office at the time, then immediately retreated to his office and locked the door.