Spicer: Well Hitler never gassed his own people...

[MineralMan]

Really Sean? Really? Are you truly that stupid and uninformed?

You should tender your resignation at once!

Feh!

[Lunabell]

1. The whole administration needs to resign.

This makes me sick.

[MineralMan]

3. That, too. But Spicer needs to go TODAY!

On Passover he says that? Really? WTAF?

[L. Coyote]

41. The heat is on, but that is fine.

Jared Kushner lied on his security clearance forms -- a federal felony with a penalty of five years

[JTFrog]

2. Fuck every single last one of these traitors and actors.

No one is that fucking ignorant. Everything they do is staged.

[MineralMan]

6. Indeed!

D'accord!

[Zoonart]

4. On Passover no less...

Should all resign in disgrace...failing...SAD.

[TheBlackAdder]

81. Look on the bright side. At least he acknowledges the holocaust. Most Trumpers deny it happened!!

[GallopingGhost]

5. I missed today's vomit spew.

Please tell me he didn't really fucking say that.

[MineralMan]

7. He did. He said, "Even Hitler didn't resort to gassing."

Freaking moron. Either that, or he's a rabid anti-Semite. I don't care. He needs to resign or be fired, and that needs to happen TODAY!

[AgadorSparticus]

10. +1000!!!!

[GallopingGhost]

19. Wow.

Let's hope so. The backlash from this ought to be pretty severe.

[dalton99a]

21. What killed 1.2 million Holocaust victims:

[MineralMan]

23. Yeah. That.

Fuck Spicer!

[dembotoz]

36. well hell the can does say giftgas....some kind of present?

[dalton99a]

38. Gift is German for poison

[ProfessorPlum]

85. Always loved that factoid

Gives the words Gift Shop a special poignancy.

[marybourg]

101. Well I guess they weren't

"his own people".

[smirkymonkey]

86. No effing way!

Nobody can possibly be that clueless, so does that make him a Holocaust denier?

That is just beyond the pale.

[grantcart]

17. He did

it was an obvious gaffe

a reporter read to him what he said and he made a correction on the spot

later he apologized for an "off the cuff" remark. His whole job is to respond "off the cuff".

particularly galling is that it was made days before Passover and the day after the seder.

[kytngirl]

66. That's their problem...

Speaking "off the cuff". Nobody in this administration THINKS before they speak, and then when they try to clean sh*t up, they make it worse. Most ignorant, pathetic, sorry-ass bunch of folks to ever occupy the White House. The whole lot of 'em.

I will never, ever believe Trump is a Wharton graduate. The man cannot string 10 words together to make a correct sentence. And he had the gall to ask to see O's college transcript. SNL said they had a terrible time getting him to read the cue cards and even understand the jokes!

[LuckyLib]

77. Well said. "Most ignorant, pathetic, sorry-ass bunch of folks to ever occupy the White House."

Trump is a Wharton graduate. Not the esteemed MBA program, but the undergraduate program. That gets conveniently lost when folks state that they have a degree from Wharton.

[Ilsa]

63. He tried two more times to fix it, but he inevitably just proved

how stupid and insensitive he is.

[mcar]

8. How does one walk that back?

Soulless flack.

[MineralMan]

11. I don't think it's possible.

When something like that is spoken, it's an indication of a deep-seated something that is missing in a person.

I hope the media carries this as a lead story tonight.

[mcar]

22. Here's his clarification

There was not — he brought them into the Holocaust centers, I understand that. But I’m saying that in the way Assad used them, where he went into towns, dropped them down to innocent — into the middle of towns. It was brought — the use of it. And I appreciate the clarification there, that was not the intent.

[MineralMan]

26. The "Holocaust centers?"

Jebus! The man is a total moron. "Holocaust centers?"

FFS!

[mcar]

42. Sometimes there are no words

[MineralMan]

43. Oh, there are many words. Most of them I don't usually

use in public. But, there are words.

[mcar]

47. Even those are not descriptive enough

That said, I, a 58 YO mom/self-employed freelance writer, has developed quite a potty mouth since November.

[beveeheart]

109. 16 years ago when W was selected, I was 57 and developed that same potty mouth.

I calmed down over the last 8 years, but now every other effing word......

[hatrack]

50. "Vernichtungslager" - learn it, Sean, fucking learn SOMETHING . . .

Extermination Camp is the English, though it doesn't really quite get the full "Teutonic flavor" of the original.

[MineralMan]

51. Exactly. 'Holocaust center,' indeed.

Spicer is an abject moron, without enough historical sense to fill a thimble.

I truly believe he does not even know the extent of the Holocaust. He may have heard of it, but has no concept of what it means. Like Trump, he is deliberately ignorant. In that way, he truly does speak for Trump.

[murielm99]

64. Oh, FFS.

He needs to go sit down someplace. He is making it worse.

[LisaM]

52. I think it is indicative of a larger problem.

This gang doesn't care to see things in historical context and they are massively unprepared to answer questions (of course, they probably don't think they need to).

Aside from the obvious insensitivity of this remark, it shows a real lack of preparedness. It's a slap in the face to the American people to wander out to press conferences so singularly unable to process questions or answers in an intelligent way.

[mcar]

59. None of them are prepared

Incompetent, evil morons.

[left-of-center2012]

62. The "Holocaust centers?"

Sounds like day care or after school programs.
They were death camps!

[Docreed2003]

65. WTF is a "holocaust center"???

Seriously....can the guy not say concentration camp? Is he that freaking clueless?

[mcar]

68. It is mind boggling

[Hekate]

89. It's a kind of day-spa, I'm sure. With discipline. What. An. Asshole.

[Docreed2003]

92. And an amazing golf course...especially the back nine

[Ilsa]

93. Oh, you know, like the exclusive African multi-generational vacations

to southern Dude plantations with bad accommodations. Sadism included. And they kept getting bumped from the return home sailing.

[Docreed2003]

97. Exactly....

Sadly, if you ever tour a plantation home today, literally every one I've ever been to says "The slaves were treated like family"...

[Ilsa]

100. Yeah, I suppose they'd have to admit there was "incest", too.

[bobGandolf]

70. So it's okay to do in "Holocaust Centers"

Just not right in the middle of a town.

There is no way out of this one.

[mcar]

74. Right?

Yeah, the death camps were bad but the poison wasn't dropped from a plane.

[smirkymonkey]

88. I know, what's the effing difference?!

A miserable death is a miserable death. I doubt very much the victims were choosy about the locations.

[Thor_MN]

99. Systematically rounding people up, stealing their belongings, then gassing them is somehow better?

What an idiot.

The moron supporters are saying "Hitler didn't use chemical weapons on the battlefield" like that means something. It's totally beyond their capabilities to comprehend that Assad gassed civilians, not combatants, so technically, Assad didn't use chemical weapons on a battlefield either.

[mcar]

102. What a stupid clarification

These people are soulless morons.

[L. Coyote]

45. You don't. You get fired.

Which means you tender your resignation.

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

9. Spicer obviously believes German Jews were not Germans.

[MineralMan]

12. Well, yes.

Just like Hitler. That's what he thought, too.

[Tom Rinaldo]

25. The quote is abhorrent either way, but did he really say "on his own people"?

I know he said something along the lines of "even Hitler didn't sink to the level of using chemical weapons". If he added the latter words also he was directly echoing Nazi ideology. Amazing either way - in a very ugly way.

[MineralMan]

28. Yes, he did. Here's the quote, from CNN, which shows the video:

"I think when you come to sarin gas, he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that Assad is doing."

There's a link in this thread.

[delisen]

15. That is what he revealed about himself-his prejudice about the "Other'"

I wonder who he thinks the "Other" is among Americans.

[Angry Dragon]

18. that was my thought

who knows what Spicer believes or even if he thinks

[karynnj]

34. No Germans ...and probably not "innocent"

Ivanka should tell her dad that it included even beautiful babies ... like her own.

[lunatica]

44. Her husband and his family are Jewish

I believe their kids are being brought up as Jews.

[karynnj]

48. and she converted --- which was my point

I do not see how her dad can look those grandkids in their eyes if he does not fire this idiot. The second statement is far worse -- and note that he knew it too - because he backtracked after saying the word "innocent" -- but did not bother to immediately clarify that the Jews were guilty of NOTHING .. and being taken away to be tortured and killed in the "holocaust centers" was not less wrong than had they been gassed in their home towns.

In fact, the point was that the killing was NOT RANDOM. They were not just in the wrong place. The same could be said in Syria. Assad's coastal village was not gassed - a town near Homs was. (Homs was also where Assad's father massacred people.)

Trump needs to fire this guy. Maybe after Passover, Trump will hear from BiBi.

[lunatica]

49. I concur

but I also think he should have been fired 3 months ago for all the other stupid things he says.

If there was any doubt about his stupidity I think this last statement pretty much obliterated the doubt.

[Ilsa]

96. Pregnant women were sent to the "showers" as well. NT

[JCanete]

71. that was my takeaway. nt

[Squinch]

13. No, he didn't! Tell me he didn't!

I hate these ignorant pigs.

[MineralMan]

20. "Hitler 'was not using the gas on his own people the same way that Assad is doing'"

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/11/politics/sean-spicer-hitler-assad-gas-chemical-weapons/

White House press secretary Sean Spicer, in an effort to shame Russia's alliance with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his use of chemical weapons, said Tuesday Adolf Hitler "didn't even sink to using chemical weapons" during World War II.

While Hitler did not use chemical weapons on the battlefield, Hitler and the Nazis used gas chambers to exterminate Jews, disabled people and others.
"You had someone who was despicable as Hitler who didn't even sink to using chemical weapons," Spicer said. "So you have to, if you are Russia, ask yourself is this a country and a regime that you want to align yourself with."

{snip}

Spicer, asked later in the briefing for a clarification by a reporter about the comments that Hitler did not use chemical weapons, said: "I think when you come to sarin gas, he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that Assad is doing."

[Squinch]

24. Why do we have to listen ANY of the things that spew forth from the hole on this

slug's face?

[SaschaHM]

14. I am amazed at how much of an incompetent idiot Spicer has shown himself to be.

[Cattledog]

16. Wow! This idiot needs to go!

But don't count on it. Telling lies is a plus in this administration..

[burnbaby]

27. get out!

Did he really say that?

[Freethinker65]

29. Wow. He was even given an opportunity to correct what he said and he made it worse

He does not belong is his job, but then again neither do most of the people in the current administration.

[0rganism]

30. he did NOT just say that, did he?

oh fuck it, i guess the real question is "who cares if he did?"

[gademocrat7]

31. Spicer is a nitwit.

I have never seen such ignorance. It is disgusting.

[world wide wally]

32. Spicer just thinks Hitler didn't consider Jews as "his own people"

[MineralMan]

40. Right. They were the Untermensch

I'm sure Spicer thinks that there is an Untermensch population in this country, as well. Those "not like us" cannot be "our people," you see, in his mind.

[radius777]

106. well, Hitler did also gas ethnic Germans,

such as the sick, disabled, gays, dissidents, etc - anyone considered inferior to the Nazi idea of racial/cultural/spiritual purity.

It's what these white nationalists don't get, that under an ethno-nationalist state anyone (including themselves and their families) can be defined as 'not pure enough' for any reason at any time, and then purged (killed, jailed, etc) from the system.

[randr]

33. The ignorance of this lsos and his minions continues to grow into a

festering boil. Our nation is infected with stupidity of the most vile nature.

[Johnny2X2X]

35. His explanation made it worse

His own people? WTF? What people is that Spicer? The pure Aryan race that you yourself strive for?

And as if gassing people in gas chambers by the millions isn't way worse than what Assad/Putin did in Syria.

This is just another nod to the Neo Nazi supporters Trump and company so value, pure and simple. And on Passover!

[riversedge]

37. Lawrence O'Donnell: Sean Spicer is a profoundly stupid liar working for a profoundly stupid liar

Spot ON!




Lawrence O'Donnell ‏Verified account @Lawrence 1h1 hour ago

Sean Spicer is a profoundly stupid liar working for a profoundly stupid liar.
370 replies 3,617 retweets 8,257 likes

Link to tweet

Xerophile Retweeted
Scott Conroy‏Verified account @ScottFConroy 2h2 hours ago

This is the day Sean Spicer became Press Secretary.
171 replies 3,983 retweets 11,119 likes



Charles Johnson‏Verified account @Green_Footballs 4m4 minutes ago

I guess it just never occurred to Sean Spicer that an apology might be the best way to handle this one.
2 replies 1 retweet 4 likes

[dalton99a]

39. +1

[uponit7771]

46. +1

[notdarkyet]

55. Stupid, ignorant. He should quit immediately.

[milestogo]

79. + 100000000

[bucolic_frolic]

53. Did he add "We're not about to gas you either?"

Projection goes into everything they do

[Runningdawg]

54. Better dust off that bunny suit

if you want to stay employed at the white house spice boy!

[patrickharris]

56. Unbelievable

seems like he makes at least a few crazy mistakes each day. Wish I could be that bad at my job and still be employed.

[MineralMan]

57. They're not really mistakes. That's what he thinks.

Nobody with any knowledge of history would ever say such a thing. He is an ignorant, crude man, with no qualifications for being a presidential spokesperson.

He should be fired, forthwith, but probably will not be.

[gopiscrap]

98. you are so right-welcome to DU

[lark]

58. Mind boggling in it's total stupidity.

Guess everyone at the WH loves and admires Hitler like their boss does? It figures.

[MontanaMama]

60. I don't know which is more upsetting.

That he would be ignorant enough to make this statement or that he might possibly believe what he said? Both are horrifying. You're correct, Spicey needs to go. Maybe Jared will whisper in 45's ear?? We're due for another staff shake up. It's been a whole week since the last one.

[3catwoman3]

61. "Really Sean? Really? Are you truly that stupid and uninformed?"

It certainly looks as if he is.

He also says "newk-yoo-ler."

[DinahMoeHum]

67. O.M.F.G.

WTF was he thinking??????

[JCanete]

69. wow, this fool. You would think that would pass even our ever lowering threshold of indecent and

idiotic.

[BigDemVoter]

72. No, Hitler didn't gas "his own people."

He just gassed 6 million untermenschen . . . Nothing to see here. . . Move along.

[greytdemocrat]

73. Man!

Just unbelievable...

[Fritz Walter]

75. If the reporters there had ANY integrity, they'd have walked out immediately

By allowing him to continue to display his (at best) ignorance or (at worst) antiSemitism, they provided the megaphone to him and his Shitgibbon of a boss.

Shame on them!

[LuckyLib]

78. This is my take exactly. They need to demonstrate complete and utter disdain for

the charades they are participating in. Walk out in protest at the abject ignorance, and call it like it is each and every day.

[SticksnStones]

84. I disagree...their job is to tell us it happened...

To keep the WH's feet to the fire. The WH would love to make the story about the press reacting. That's a distraction.

Let the pundits react. Let the people shame and blame and vote them out ~

The press must witness and report. It's vital they keep watching, listening and taking notes ~

[OldHippieChick]

76. My brain is still hurting trying to figure out what in the

hell a "holocaust center" is. A center for the mass destruction of people? Where on earth did he come up w/ that term? My guess is that he has no idea the meaning of "holocaust", but it just makes it so hard for me to lift my jaw off the floor and chew enough aspirin.

[SticksnStones]

80. What can one infer from a WH spokesperson

who doesn't have already, as part of his vocabulary, the ability to discuss the holocaust for a sentence or two?

Oh they'll counter he misspoke...but he doesn't even have at his ready, a command of the most basic of words to speak on the topic.

Why do you suppose that is? Why should speaking about the Holocaust throw him off so easily?

[stevenleser]

82. My grandparents and uncle were killed by the chemical weapons Spicer said Hitler never used

My grandparents and uncle who I never got to meet were killed by the chemical weapons Spicer said Hitler never used along with many other loyal Germans. My grandfather fought for Germany in WWI and was awarded the Iron Cross.

He was repaid by being sent to the gas chambers with his wife and one of his two sons.

[sprinkleeninow]

83. Perhaps by 'his own people' he meant any people of non-Jewish descent.

I have no other words for hideous and foul utterings from them and in goings-on by them.

It's so very distressing to my spirit.

[gopiscrap]

87. Hitler didn't gas his own people?

Jesus fucking Christ, I have distant relatives who can tell you otherwise!

[moondust]

90. Here ya go, Spicey.

The gas van was invented and used by the Soviet secret police NKVD in the late 1930s during the Great Purge. It was later widely implemented as an extermination method in Nazi Germany to kill those the regime deemed enemies of the state, mostly Jews.

It gets worse from there.

[Glimmer of Hope]

91. Omg. Just resign already. Why are you on CNN?

[nikibatts]

94. This is grounds for immediate firing. That level of stupidity and insensitivity

ought to be grounds for firing if there ever was one. Apologize ok. But stay on the job NOT!!!

[radical noodle]

95. Aw, don't be unfair to Sean

He actually represents the stupidity of the entire administration.

[leftyladyfrommo]

103. Wow! That is going to go down right along

with Ronald Reagan saying trees cause pollution.

Good one, Spicer.

[xor]

104. He's not a very intelligent person.

[mainstreetonce]

105. I refuse to believe

that he didn't have a conversation with Trump first. They discussed why Assad was worse than Hitler.

[JCinNYC]

107. Bingo.

Thats it
Hadnt thought about that possibility
Maybe not trumpstain himself, but you can bet that Spicer just repeated a phrase he picked up while listening to those boobs in the WH. They love that locker room talk and had that meme going round the last few days.
Little did they think that Spicey would be dumb enough to repeat it in front of the world.
Hes just the class idiot.
Better dust off the bunny suit Spicey

[Worktodo]

110. Yes like he's reflecting an internal discussion

And there's a lot he's parroting here:

"Hitler didn't sink to that level"
"Holocaust Centers"
"Hitler didn't gas his own people"

It's all really disgusting. Yeah there are gaffes. But this seems to go beyond that. And it's not the first time either.

[uponit7771]

108. +1

[area51]

111. I said it in another thread,

and I'll repeat it here. Man up, Spicer, and step down.