I was struck by this account from Fox News of White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's "reset" with the press after his disastrous debut on Saturday:
Spicer joked Monday that he wouldn’t be claiming his predecessor Josh Earnest’s title as most-popular press secretary any time soon, and went on to acknowledge he made a factual mistake.
“Knowing what we know now, we can tell that WMATA’s numbers are different,” Spicer said, referring to the agency that controls the Metro system. He said he was operating off stats given to him, and didn’t pull them from “thin air.”
He also noted the media routinely publish corrections, and said the administration “should be afforded the same opportunity.”
Of course, that didn't stop Spicer from berating Time Magazine during Saturday's presser after one of their reporters corrected a story which stated that Trump had removed a bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. from the Oval Office. Instead of acknowledging the correction, Spicer called it "irresponsible and reckless." It would appear that the Trump Administration has erected a one way sign in the White House Press Room.
In The Lord's Prayer we ask God to "forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." So while Spicer asks the press to forgive his trespasses he is not so quick to forgive those who trespass against Trump.
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