Emmys slammed for bringing out Sean Spicer

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It was Stephen Colbert’s idea — he and his producer knew there would be blowback. But they probably weren’t expecting a whole bunch of celebrities to tweet their outrage. “It was a sickening, cynical laugh grab, a fantastic ‘get’ that was probably meant to make the Emmys look good for convincing someone other than an entertainment industry star to show up for a gag,” says Christina Cauterucci. “But the main beneficiary of the joke was Spicer. America has barely heard from him since he left the administration at the dawn of the Mooch era, his brief and disastrous turn in the spotlight was very much over. Sunday’s sketch brought Spicer back into the public consciousness as an affable pal who’s in on the joke. If he, like us, sees the humor in the lies he spread and the aggressive attacks on the press he led, he can’t be all that bad, right?”

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