Do you think America should be quick to forgive Sean Spicer?

I think that people who think he was lying (once, twice, on a regular basis?), while doing his job in the White House, will probably be wary of believing anything that comes out of his mouth for the rest of his life.
I think there are many people who are.

Also, when one takes a job that (may) entail lying, or twisting the truth/facts, one needs to take that into consideration.
People might take you less serious, from then on.

Of course not. All public officials should be held to a high standard. Incompetence, disinformation, and involvement in corruption (especially corporate corruption) should not be tolerated at all, except if they confess/detail/testify about how they were coerced into participating in corruption.

It’s no more “just doing a job” than any other professional wrongdoer is “just doing a job”. The way to be forgiven is to stop being corrupt and call out what you did, why, and what they did to get you to do that.

When media and pop culture and their audiences ignore the known and even blatant and obvious ways that corrupt public officials fail to represent us in atrocious ways, they directly enable and even normalize and encourage more of the same corruption and abuse.

Far more powerful than the vote is everyone’s free speech and ability to not sit still and validate the blatant corruption and misdeeds of our public officials, and the media that enables them, and the corporations that pay them, etc.

I find it more upsetting having Spicer joke about what he did than if he just kept quiet. It is as if he is admitting that he lied, but sees it as no big deal, as something to get a few laughs over. It does not count as an apology. It reminds me of Trump, who will never apologize for anything that he says. If he is caught saying something untrue, he will blame it on someone else.

Absolutely not. He is another person with no moral compass and an opportunist. We have elevated people like this for to long. Liars and corrupt officials should never be normalized.

Spicer still doesn’t seem to grasp the responsibility he had as Press Secretary. He shouldn’t be on a podium smiling and joking, he should be in a dark corner hanging his head in shame.

The Shameful Embrace of Sean Spicer at the Emmys
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/opinion/the-shameful-embrace-of-sean-spicer-at-the-emmys.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0

He was given a tough job. He had to try to be the smartest man in the press room (he wasn’t), and he had to say what The Donald wanted (lies). I wish he had the stones to stand up for his beliefs, but he didn’t.
That said, I wouldn’t give him a talk show, but I do appreciate self ridicule.

He actually looked like a tortured soul every time I watched him speak while he had that job. I could be very wrong. But it’s really neither here nor there for me. I’m sure he will be fine in life and he doesn’t need my forgiveness.