Sean Spicer's surprise cameo at Emmys sparks outrage: 'We're normalising him already?'
'Spicer gets a recovery tour after lying to the public for months'
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Your support makes all the difference.After the initial shock of seeing Sean Spicer on stage at the Emmys wore off, viewers began to question the ethics of his cameo.
The former White House press secretary got a big laugh for his comment about the audience for the ceremony being bigger than the one for his old boss' inauguration, but many weren't ready to laugh about him allegedly knowingly lying to the public.
"Sean Spicer gets a recovery tour after lying to the public for months but the first woman nominee is supposed to go into hiding," one viewer tweeted, referencing defeated Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
"Ugh NO to Sean Spicer. It's so great that we can embrace someone who used a powerful position to abuse the press and lie to America," author Mark Harris added, with former Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor concluding: "Sean Spicer sold his soul to work for Trump and repeatedly lied from the podium. Hilarious!"
The 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards invited us to laugh with Spicer, a somewhat contradictory move given many awards were dished out to people like Alec Baldwin and Kate McKinnon who have spent the year mocking him and the Trump administration.
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