This Guy Can't Last Much Longer

It's just one Spicer gaffe or story after another.

Notice the flag pin at Friday's briefing.

Spicer came under fire just hours earlier for commenting on the Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report within an hour of its release – a violation of a 1985 federal rule. Spicer told the press he posted the tweet out of “excitement” about the positive job figures.

  RT

Specifically, Spicer broke the Office of Management and Budget's Statistical Policy Directive No. 3, adopted in 1985.

"Except for members of the staff of the agency issuing the principal economic indicator who have been designated by the agency head to provide technical explanations of the data, employees of the Executive Branch shall not comment publicly on the data until at least one hour after the official release time."

  LA Times

Honestly, that might be one of the two regulations they can dump for every new one they add.

Spicer said his understanding of the rule was that it was designed to avoid affecting the stock market.

But that's not the reason.

The rule dates back to the Nixon administration.

Concerned about the credibility of government statistics, federal officials in 1969 called for a one-hour delay in comments on economic data.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics website, the rule was designed to "preserve the neutrality and objectivity of the statistics."

Because one hour can do that, you know. WTF?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.