Amazon Post fluff piece on Anthony Scaramucci
The Surprisingly Tolerable Second Act of Anthony Scaramucci
How to bounce back when 11 disastrous days in the White House has turned you into a national punchline. (Hint: Self-awareness helps.)
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The Mooch came in with a mission: Find — and fire — whoever was leaking to the media. That quest would lead to his downfall when he called then-New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza late one evening, demanding to know who had leaked a small piece of news. It devolved from there: He launched into an extended, obscene tirade, lambasting his fellow West Wing aides in graphic terms. The Mooch thought it was off the record, but he and Lizza had never discussed it. (He insists it was “implied” and that Lizza knew this.) In the time I spend with him, he brings up this moment approximately 47 times. He felt betrayed by Lizza, whom he thought he could trust. “You’re talking to an Italian American from the next town over whose dad knows your dad for 50 years,” he says. “Al Scaramucci and Frank Lizza were close friends.” (Lizza told me he’d never heard the name Scaramucci until he met the Mooch at CNN one night. “I don’t know who his family is,” he says.) Another time, of Lizza’s publishing the conversation: “Was that a nice thing to do?”
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After his first, and only, news conference, the late-night hosts had a field day with his tough-talking persona. Seth Meyers called him “the human embodiment of a double-parked BMW,” while Stephen Colbert likened him to “a lawyer whose ad is above the urinal.” Sean Spicer resigned as press secretary in protest of Scaramucci’s dearth of communications experience. Priebus followed days later.
He’s honed quippy, self-deprecating laugh lines — he’s got “orange Cheeto stain” on his hands from his association with Trump; he thought his White House tenure would last “longer than a carton of milk” — and uses them constantly. Throughout our time together, everyone in his orbit seems utterly taken with him. “He’s one of those guys who’s always going to try to charm you, even if you don’t agree with him,” says Bill Maher, who does not agree with him most of the time. Scaramucci appeared on Maher’s HBO show last year, and they became friendly, going to a Mets game together. “He’s a likable guy,” Maher says.
>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/07/22/feature/the-surprisingly-tolerable-second-act-of-anthony-scaramucci/
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Interesting article, what is much more interesting to me is Rod Rosenstein's response on Twitter
@RodRosenstein
Replying to @eyokley @Scaramucci and @rebeccarnelson
“Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.” - Phaedrus (Plato)
4:05 AM · Jul 23, 2019 · Twitter for iPhone
>https://twitter.com/RodRosenstein/status/1153516359491493889
Now where have we seen this before?
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Another piece of the puzzle just clicked into place, anons.