Much has been said about Sean Spicers surprise appearance at the Emmy Awards Sunday night. Those in attendance and those of us at home were shocked when host Stephen Colbert momentarily called Spicer on stage to deliver a joke at his own expense. He repeated the infamous lie about inaugauration-crowd size, but with an Emmys spin. The reactions were hilarious, but there was also instant anger over the way the media was once again normalizing very dangerous parts of the Trump administration. Spicer knowingly lied to the American public for seven months about a vast number of things. A one-off joke at the Emmys cant make up for the damage hes done.

But what struck me most during the telecast, and the subsequent rush to pontificate on the normalization of Spicer, was the relative radio silence about another uncomfortable normalizing moment smack dab in the middle of one of the evenings highlights: a 9 to 5 reunion featuring Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, and Dolly Parton together on stage. I heard relatively few people saying anything about a moment I also found quite unnerving.