On Friday as CNN’s Wolf Blitzer cut away from regular programming to cover the daily press briefing at Mar-a-Lago, a strange thing happened. The camera first showed a visibly irritated Sean Spicer giving instructions that the briefing would be done off camera. But then the pool camera, rather than just turn off, panned off of Spicer and focused on this gigantic container of cheese balls in the press area instead, all while the audio was still live:
Spicer said he wanted to do the briefing off camera so the pool camera shot this giant container of cheese balls instead pic.twitter.com/c5Br9M0JLk
— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) April 7, 2017
After a few seconds, CNN cut back to Wolf. But as you can see from the number of RTs and likes, the cheese-ball presser was a hit, including with many reporters.
https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/850401173488242689
I love this https://t.co/qPNAyoy7L9
— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) April 7, 2017
Well at least the container of cheese balls is transparent
**rim shot** https://t.co/IzXk2URWjR
— Tim Mak (@timkmak) April 7, 2017
Look out @PressSec your potential replacement has all the qualities Trump likes — orange, unhealthy, and doesn't know more than 26 words https://t.co/S592UlOXha
— Matt MEET THE PRESS IS SANCTUARY FOR LIARS Negrin (@MattNegrin) April 7, 2017
Oh wow cheese balls great
— Matt Gurney (@mattgurney) April 8, 2017
Hey y'all know how much I love cheese balls @KaciAitchison @BhavishaPatel https://t.co/Z4kZlz35cf
— Liz Dueweke ? (@LizDueweke) April 7, 2017
American life has become a televised tragicomedy. https://t.co/PBQ4ofHlor
— Brendan McGuirk (@BrendanMcGuirk) April 7, 2017
What a time to be alive. https://t.co/QExfYz5MCD
— Katie Levans (@katie_levans) April 8, 2017
It certainly is.
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