No, it's not, quite. I don't know if I can describe the difference without getting into politics which is apparently as unwelcome here as humour, but here goes.

No, it's not, quite. I don't know if I can describe the difference without getting into politics which is apparently as unwelcome here as humour, but here goes. I am trying to be apolitical here. Baghdad Bob and Sean Spicer were really quite different. OK so you are partly right on two fronts. One, there was a Baghdad Bob moment right at the beginning, the whole "largest crowd ever PERIOD" rant, but even the presentation and the sentiment of that were rather different. It had no humour, it was an angry, hectoring, nasty, shouted attempt to bully and control. Two, he failed at it in spectacular fashion, which did lead to him being car-crash television in kind of the same way BB was, except he'd so severely soured his relationship with the press corps that you were watching a man slowly shrinking, rather than a man in control of the limelight. But Spicer also was just plain bad at his job, ignorant of history, incompetent, indifferent or unkind on screen to the people he spoke to, had terrible presentation, no theatrics, no presence, and he told humdrum, lazy, formulaic lies among his charmless distribution of the day-to-day humdrum stuff. Not comparable to BB. No one believed in him, but the press corps went there expecting to -- needing to -- be told the truth. Apolitically: a really bad press secretary, in short. Out of his depth. Trump's own press conferences were much more like Baghdad Bob in tone and approach; Trump inflated the truth, told huge, flowery, dramatic lies, timed press conferences to distract, and used one ridiculous hoax claim to distract from the fallout from another. Theatrics, performance. A weird amount of car-crash TV control from sheer, unprepared brinksmanship and BS (in the specific sense of indifference to the distinction between truth and lies). Like with Baghdad Bob, the truth was never being approached; it's not what the Trump press conferences were even for. I often felt a little sorry for Sarah Huckabee-Sanders, who to be clear told the same sort of lies as Spicer, but at least you could tell it made her uncomfortable to do it, and you could tell she cared about the press corps as people. She especially hated clearing up after a Trump press conference.