According to the institute, Spicer is supposed to be engaging students in discourse on topical issues of today by giving bright young minds a look at the inner workings of White House communications.
Instead, according to a student who attended one of Spicers Q&A sessions, The entire thing was just a defense of every waking moment he served. He is a flack once more, only this time for himself.
Over the course of this week, Spicer has been holding court during breakfasts, lunches, dinners and lectures to pass along to the groups of commingling graduate and undergrad students the many lessons of public service he digested along with all those pieces of gum in his time at the White House. HuffPost spoke with several of these students, who have been granted anonymity because the sessions were off the record, per the Harvard institutes standard visiting fellow rules. The school probably didnt need to worry too much. As one student explained, Hes incredibly inarticulate, so it was really difficult to take any sort of notes.
The Harvard Kennedy School features a mostly liberal student body, and its students were particularly upset over the schools decision to rescind Chelsea Mannings fellowship while keeping that of both Spicer and former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. Despite that, everyone HuffPost spoke with said the questions Spicer received were relatively tame. No questions were pre-screened, but the sessions moderators had full control over who was able to get in a question.
Spicer, for his part, had his talking points ready. The students HuffPost spoke with emphasized that, regardless of the question, Spicer tended to circle back to a few familiar themes. Benghazi, for instance. ... Lets not forget, though, that this is about the students. And what are the students taking away from this encounter with a master of his field? I learned that the media was not misrepresenting him in how they were talking about him six months ago, said one Harvard Kennedy School student. I was kind of expecting him to be better than how he was portrayed through the press, but he was pretty much just as slimy and weaselly as Id thought he was.
I learned that the media was not misrepresenting him in how they were talking about him six months ago, said one Harvard Kennedy School student. I was kind of expecting him to be better than how he was portrayed through the press, but he was pretty much just as slimy and weaselly as Id thought he was.