David Muir is Getting Brutally Trashed by His ABC Co-Workers for Trying to Look Jacked While Covering the LA Fires

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I suppose that even in an age where no one born before the 1960s still gets their information from nightly network broadcasts, TV news is still a heartless, savage wildnerness. An animal pack in which everyone's competing to become the Alpha. The one who gets to eat first, drink first, and mate with all the most desirable, fertile females first. 

In an ecosystem like that, all the competitors are constantly on the lookout for signs of weakness. In their prey, in one another, and in the leader of the herd. So when ABC News' top dog David Muir embarrassed himself with this bit of obvious vanity in the middle of unimaginable property loss and human suffering:

… you didn't have to be Jane Goodall to know that the other animals were going to pounce:

Page Six - We’re told people at the network were “embarrassed and horrified” by the gaffe. Multiple insiders pointed to Muir’s Instagram account, which features the physically fit newsman regularly broodily mugging in form-fitting T-shirts with extra-short sleeves that show off his physique. 

But sources also told us that the fashion-world move of cinching a jacket is par for the course for one of ABC’s leading men. 

A source told Page Six of the anchor: “His narcissism is quite large in the sense of this kind of thing. …

The insider added, “Just look at [Muir’s] Instagram.”

Thank you for the suggestion, ABC News insider. Let's do that:

Hubba hubba. David Muir, you honeydripper! 

Let's get one thing perfectly clear. I don't begrudge this guy for looking amazing on his 'Gram. If I looked like him instead of Mr. Burns' male secretary, I'd be filing my account with Thirst Traps of myself squeezed into smedium tees in the middle of vacation destinations and war zones too. Knock yourself out, you bohunk.

The other difference of course is he's trying to be taken seriously as a Journo in the middle of a major catastrophic event. As we will continue to read, the people who work for the same media outlet don't appreciate him turning their whole operation into a national fooking laughingstock:

Another insider pointed out Muir’s uniform of a “tight black T-shirt” when he’s out in the field. But “I’ve never seen those jackets made to look like a firefighter jacket, that matches the first responders,” they said of his ABC-branded fire outfit. 

A third insider also directed us to Muir’s Instagram feed, telling us of the jacket cinch incident: “It’s pathetic. All flexed muscles and posing. He’s actually ‘Zoolander’ meets ‘Anchorman.’ He forgets he is the face of ABC News, not Abercrombie & Fitch!” …

One insider mentioned the irony of “trying to look ‘hot’ during a fire … It’s outrageous,” they said. 

“[Covering the fires] shouldn’t be about vanity. It should be about people losing their homes,” the second source said. 

As I'm posting about this for the second time, I have but one regret. And that's not making the Zoolander/Anchorman comparison first. It's perfect:

It's just so perfect. I can't look like Muir does and no one's sending me to cover historic events. But by golly, these pop culture references were both right in the middle of my strike zone. And I left the bat on my shoulder. My only excuse is that until about 36 hours ago, I barely new this narcissistic twat existed. These people venting their spleens to the NY Post instead of "No commenting" their lead anchor must have had those bullets chambered up just waiting for the chance to aim and fire. And he gave it to them. 

Now it's a matter of seeing if this guy goes back on the air wearing his sweet, fashion-forward, faux-firefighter's jacket. And if so, whether he lets it hang naturally or pins it up again. My guess is he's already had a tailor made one already rushed to the scene. You don't cover up a bod like that, no matter how many people are killed or burned out of everything they own. If you did, that would be the real tragedy.