Sean Spicer on Citing Atlanta Terror Attack That Never Happened: I 'Clearly Meant' Orlando

[DonViejo]

Source: ABC News



By MATTHEW CLAIBORNE Feb 9, 2017, 12:09 AM ET

Kellyanne Conway isn't the only member of the Trump administration citing a terror attack that never happened: White House press secretary Sean Spicer is just as guilty, having recently alluded three times to an attack in Atlanta.

Spicer first made an Atlanta reference during a January 29 appearance on ABC's "This Week," telling chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz, "What do we say to the family who loses somebody over a terroristic (sic) -- to whether it's Atlanta or San Bernardino or the Boston bomber? Those people, each of whom had gone out to a country and then come back." And the head-scratching continued the next day while on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," when he argued that there are too many instances of terrorism in the U.S, "whether you're talking about San Bernardino, Atlanta."

Seemingly unfazed by the previous two mentions of a terror attack in Atlanta, Spicer again cited such an attack during a press briefing just hours after his MSNBC interview.

He mentioned Atlanta after being asked by a reporter why countries with terrorist ties are not included in President Trump's travel ban. "We're reviewing the entire process over this period of time to make sure that we do this right," Spicer said. "But I don't think you have to look any further than the families of the Boston Marathon, in Atlanta, in San Bernardino to ask if we can go further."


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[unblock]

1. no worries. it's not important for the folks in charge of nuclear weapons to get a city name right.

[justhanginon]

10. If I lived in Moscow Idaho I would seriously start thinking about

a bomb shelter. And there are evidently 25 more towns and cities with the name Moscow in them.

[jmowreader]

23. Especially considering Moscow's political leanings

It's one of the few liberal towns in North Idaho, and it contains The Devil's Breeding Ground (you know, a university)!

[ck4829]

2. But there was a terrorist in Atlanta - Eric Rudolph

What does your government plan to say to the family who loses somebody over the next Dylann Roof, Adam Lanza, Robert Lewis Dear, Jason Dalton, or Eric Rudolph?

[mindfulNJ]

3. Clearly.

Maybe since you are the friggin SPOKESPERSON you would learn how to friggin SPEAK.

[IronLionZion]

4. But no mention of Charleston, Sandy Hook, Aurora, the Wisconsin temple

and any of the horrible mass murders committed by white males.

Not sure what the Orlando attack has to do with refugees or immigrants since the perp was neither. Maybe ban everyone who has ever been born in New York, starting with Donald J. Trump?

[mpcamb]

5. Boston Marathon perps emigrated from Russia, if we're naming countries for the terror list.

[mwooldri]

20. Kyrgyzstan.

Though "former Soviet Union" would be valid when referring to the two people who bombed the Boston Marathon.

[mpcamb]

30. The family was Chechen but I think 'emigrated through Russia' may be correct.

"Tsarnaev was born in Kyrgyzstan. As a child, he emigrated with his family to Russia and then, when he was eight years old, to the United States..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzhokhar_Tsarnaev

In 2001, the family moved to Makhachkala, Dagestan, in the Russian Federation, on the Caspian Sea.

(same source)

[GusBob]

6. They both end in the same vowels so I can see how one would get confused

NOT

[jmowreader]

26. Maybe he thinks he's from southern Rhode Island

Old Army joke: my battalion commander in the 101st Airborne had a severe New England accent. We had a battalion formation every month, and Cactus Jack was talking about some damn thing when he said, "those of us from the south..." All of us started looking at each other... "You know, southern Rhode Island."

Sean Spicer isn't worthy to shine Cactus Jack McGuinness's boots.

I knew people in NC who vacationed in "Orlanda," and maybe that dumbass Spicer was told to mention the Orlando bombing by someone who says it that way.

When he first mentioned it, I thought he was talking about the Olympics bombing. Why he would mention either attack is a slight mystery. Atlanta was over 20 years ago and committed by Trump's Kind of People (I wonder if anyone sent Eric Rudolph a MAGA hat) and most of the people who died in Orlando were Living Non-Trump-Approved Lives.

[underpants]

7. Hey, the vowels and consonants match

Remember when W's fiasco misspelled their post 9/11 war plans for "Saudi Arabia" as "Iraq"?

Mistakes happen. Words are hard.

[EarthFirst]

8. You didn't clearly mean shit, Spicer!

Spicer knows that the Deplorables will spread his message regardless of whether or not a retraction is ever given.

It's a method of propaganda that they know to be an effective way to spread a message.

They know it's effectiveness.

Followed up by a few "fake news" "lying press" tirades -it's all part of a well-planned strategy on their part.

Once it's whispered once, there's no putting it back in the bag; it becomes a message of gospel that the Deplorables have no problem spreading with never-ending question.

[louis-t]

12. In fact, the name of the city doesn't matter.

It's the fear-mongering that matters. City name is unimportant. Misrepresent an attack by a white drumpf lover as a Muslim attack? Look for more of that, too.

[EarthFirst]

18. This is exactly true!

The Deplorables have already been conditioned.

The message has already been programmed...

From here, it's simply a never-ending effort to delegitimize the Lügenpresse, translated "lying press/media"

...and the machine rolls on!

[forgotmylogin]

29. He clearly doesn't pay attention.

Which is why they believe terror attacks are "underreported".

[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. Did I say "launch from the subs"? I meant "who wants to go to Subway for lunch?" NT

[cstanleytech]

11. What about the Charleston terrorist attack Sean? You know, the one that happened at the

Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.

[Motley13]

13. Maybe he is referring to the one in 1996

committed by a good Christian white guy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Olympic_Park_bombing

[Blue Idaho]

14. He clearly meant

"I have no idea what I'm talking about."

[Tommy_Carcetti]

15. Tony Orlando? nt

[jmowreader]

27. Be nice. My mom still listens to him.

[SnowCritter]

16. Well, they sound so much alike

At-lan-ta. Or-lan-do.

Yup, I get 'em confused all the time. It's like "one hundred" and "one thousand" - I can't tell the difference.

[randr]

17. With his boss questioning his masculinity he is rattled

Expect him to over compensate from now on.

[RobinA]

19. We Nuked

Amsterdam? We clearly meant Afghanistan. Any lousy high school student would know that.

[yellowcanine]

21. Atlanta, Orlando, Bowling Green, whatever. All just words to the Trump team.

Words useful for scaring the crap out of people so that they will support the Trumpian "solutions."

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

22. They're either fking up or lying at all times.

Incompetent at what we need them to be good at and experts in everything that will hurt the country.

[milestogo]

24. Because Florida and Georgia are so hard to tell apart -

being right next to each other and all.

[CakeGrrl]

25. Orlando...where the shooter was AMERICAN?

But then again, the Trumpsters don't care for facts. They just want to block out brown scary people with guns.

The incompetent leading the stupid...

[jmowreader]

28. And the victims weren't GOP-approved?

People celebrated when Pulse got shot up. All of those celebrating probably voted for that asshole if they voted for anyone.