Hillary and other leftists: Sean Spicer racist and sexist for not taking reporter April Ryan's nonsense

Ryan was a lot less substantive and a lot more obnoxious

Tuesday's exchange was Sean Spicer was different. Ryan was a lot less substantive and a lot more obnoxious in asking Spicer about how he intends to repair what she called Trump's "image" problem. Spicer's response was basically that any "image problem" Trump might have exists only in the minds and via the mouths of the media, who continue to talk endlessly about certain things that are either a) irrelevant; or b) not even true. The exchange was testy, mainly because Ryan kept stepping on Spicer's responnse both verbally and nonverbally. And guess who has re-emerged from whatever hole she crawled into to declare Spicer racist and sexist as a result? You should have known she'd be the thing that wouldn't leave: So we're told that Spicer was being racist and sexist for the way he dealt with Ryan here. OK. Let's see the actual exchange for ourselves:

Questions about this:

1. Did Spicer at any point refer to Ryan's race? No.
2. Did Spicer at any point refer to Ryan's sex? No.
3. Who kept interrupting the other? Ryan asked a question, Spicer tried to answer it. Yes, they were both shouting over each other, but it was Ryan who kept cutting Spicer off as he tried to give her a detailed answer. You don't see all the head-shaking but Spicer obviously does and considers it just as much a part of the interruption as her tried to shout followup questions when he's not done with his initial answer.

What we've got here is exactly what it looks like: A tense, testy exchange between a reporter and the White House press secretary, brought on by a frankly obnoxious question that's impossible to answer effectively without doing exactly what Spicer did, which is to turn the question back on the press. Ryan doesn't like that so things get tense. Fine. But why should anyone think Spicer would have handled it differently if a white male reporter had asked the same question, or had continually interrupted his answer, or had sat there shaking his head dismissively as Spicer was trying to answer? He wouldn't, and you know it.

Real reason they're so furious today. Their ammo is being revealed as powerless, and everyone is starting to notice

The standard the left is trying to set here is that minorities and women can only be handled with kid gloves, and that anyone who mixes it up with them is racist by definition even if the matter at hand has nothing to do with race or sex and makes no reference to it. And if that's going to be the standard by which we have to operate, what exactly does the left think of female and minority reporters? As for the question itself, it's obnoxious in the extreme precisely because it's one of those unfalsifiable notions the press likes to toss out there. The president has an image problem! Russia! Wiretapping! So much! It won't go away! If it won't go away, it's because they are resolved to keep talking about it even if there's nothing there to talk about. That's Spicer's point. How can you repair an "image problem" that's created and kept alive solely by the will of the press? You can't, nor should you even take seriously the notion that it's your problem to fix. The stupid Russia thing "won't go away" because they don't want it to, not because there's anything to it. Trump has decided to let it be their problem, and they're butthurt that he's not jumping through hoops trying to satisfy them. Because Trump learned two things during the campaign: 1. You can't satisfy them. 2. Them being satisfied doesn't matter as much as politicians have long assumed it does. And that's the real reason they're so furious today. Their ammo is being revealed as powerless, and everyone is starting to notice.