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Scaramucci's Rant Should Terrify Trump Voters
A president needs to attract talented people. His new communications director will make that task even harder.
Mouthing off.
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“Colorful language,” he called it. That’s how the new White House communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, described remarks of his that Ryan Lizza quoted in the New Yorker on Thursday.
“Degraded” seems to me a better adjective. To speak that way in private is a flaw. To speak that way in the capacity of a public official -- a communications official at that -- is to further coarsen our culture.