White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer came under fire Tuesday after saying that Adolf Hitler "didn't even sink to using chemical weapons" against his own people like Syrian strong man Bashar Al-Assad.Right. German Jews were among the first to be marched into the gas chambers (though to the Nazis, those Jews weren't Germans because the German government had stripped them of their citizenship). So I guess that putting people into enclosed rooms before gassing them to death, as opposed to dropping gas bombs from aircraft, is a distinction in Spicer's fetid mind.
He later sought to clarify his remarks in three separate statements.
Spicer, speaking from the White House podium at the daily press briefing, said that Hitler, whom he called "despicable," did not use "the gas on his own people the same way Assad used them."
There also seems to be a distinction, in his pathetic cluster of crainial neurons, between Zyklon B and Sarin gases.
"The Holocaust Center" is Spicer's euphemism for extermination camps.
Saying that what Assad had done was worse then the Holocaust, which is apparently what Spicer was ineptly trying to say, is tantamount to denial of the Holocaust.
And all of this during Passover?
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OK, two things: First, the way the underlying fascism sort of kept poking its head out of Spicer's frantic backpedaling... the implication that those gassed by Hitler weren't "his own people" or "innocent" the way the Syrians were under Assad, and the way Spicer couldn't quite stop himself from starting to say them once he realized he wasn't speaking to the Bannonites in the White House where such language isn't a problem.
And second, how many more millimeters has he opened up between the media and the investigation of Russian collusion with this display?
I don't want to turn into a conspiracy theorist here, but it seems like every time Trump or one of his crew say something outrageous and offensive, there is something else happening that is being distracted from. Sort of Roy Cohn-ish as a tactic, and not anything I'd put past them for a second.
-Doug in Oakland
Doug, they aren't that smart.
Spicer "Godwin"ed himself.
(L)Rod
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I love the phrase "Holocaust Centers." It sounds like a recreational facility and goes with the irony of the phrase "Albeit macho frei" above the gates at various concentration camps.
Somebody send Spicer out to take a nice cleansing shower.
Yours very crankily,
The New York Crank
Whoops, that's a typo. The sign over the concentration camps was, Albeit macht frei. And I didn't do it. The auto correct did it. I just caught it trying to screw me again.
Send auto correct to the showers, too.
Yours very crankily,
The New York Crank
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