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'I apologize, It was a mistake' Sean Spicer grovels amid mounting calls for him to quit (Tr.)
Daily Mail ^ | 4-11-2017 | David Martosko

Posted on 04/11/2017 6:13:15 PM PDT by brucedickinson

Press Secretary Sean Spicer went on CNN to fight for his job after favorably comparing Adolf Hitler with Bashar al-Assad at today's White House briefing.

Spicer had said unlike the Syrian strongman, the 1940s Nazi dictator 'didn't even sink to ... using chemical weapons,' leaving reporters in disbelief and causing some critics to call for his head.

'I apologize, it was a mistake to do that,' Spicer said to the network's Wolf Blitzer, whose own parents survived the Holocaust. Blitzer's paternal grandparents were killed by the Nazis at Auschwitz.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: adolfhitler; assad; chemicalweapons; crime; hitler; seanspicer; spicer; whpresser
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To: brucedickinson

When did apologizing become groveling?


21 posted on 04/11/2017 6:20:09 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (SandyInPeoria just doesn't sound right... yet here I am.)
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To: ColdOne

That was a 1 layer epidermis paper cut.

Big deal...


22 posted on 04/11/2017 6:20:12 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: brucedickinson

Holocaust Center was a dumb term to use.


23 posted on 04/11/2017 6:20:20 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: brucedickinson

Hang in there, Sean. In a month, they’ll be griping about something else. And remember what Trump said when the p*ssy-grabbing tape came out: “I never quit.”


24 posted on 04/11/2017 6:21:27 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: Maine Mariner

“Well it just goes to show everyone the double standard in the left wing media. A Republican makes a mistake speaking off the cuff and the left demands his or her resignation. If a similar mistake was made by a left wing progressive, the MSM would ignore it.”

Yes. Always the case.


25 posted on 04/11/2017 6:21:53 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: brucedickinson

Spicer ain’t going anywhere - quit the stupid nitpicking.


26 posted on 04/11/2017 6:21:59 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: brucedickinson

Oh yawwwn.


27 posted on 04/11/2017 6:22:11 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: ifinnegan

We all make mistakes; and if we are recorded every day by people waiting for a “gotcha!” moment, we are going
to be caught.

But we all know he isn’t an anti-semite, and that he wasn’t denying the Holocaust, and that the administration is not anti-semitic. And it is is a lie to say that it is (worse than any mistake Spicer made.)


28 posted on 04/11/2017 6:22:28 PM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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To: brucedickinson

He probably forgot about Hitler sending poison gas through shower vents. One can’t recall ever atrocity committed by totalitarians at the drop of a hat.


29 posted on 04/11/2017 6:22:47 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Let's not squander the golden opportunity of 2017.)
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To: Organic Panic

We know how this works - you apologize “for anyone who may have been offended” and the forget about it.


30 posted on 04/11/2017 6:23:29 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: brucedickinson

Okay, he stepped in it. I can’t say it’s not a big deal, but I don’t think he should step down over it.

It’s my take he was probably focused on domestic and military actions in Germany and abroad, and wasn’t focused on the death camps.

He should apologize and be allowed to move on.

I’m sure he feels bad about it. I would.


31 posted on 04/11/2017 6:23:30 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: arthurus

True. The apology was a huge mistake. You would think he would have learned that from his boss.


32 posted on 04/11/2017 6:23:36 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: RC one

Yeah, really

Shouldn’t the CongressClown who thought Guam might tip over quit? How about MadMax Waters who has shot her mouth off left and right recently?

How about the calls for Madonna to get lost after dreaming of blowing up the WH? Or the Drexel U “professor”?

hilLIAR and her cronies with their unsecured server and emails? Huma? Podesta?

Good grief, Spicer made an honest mistake. Everyone knows what he meant, it wasn’t used in a battle context.

Give it a rest. If this is “all they have” then they are not doing their jobs. Investigate the Dimocrats for corruption, now that takes some work and brains. Up to the tasks, MSM? I think not.


33 posted on 04/11/2017 6:24:06 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW! BOYCOTT Mexico nba NFL PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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To: brucedickinson

DON’T APOLOGIZE TO THESE STUPID FRIGGIN LIBERAL IDIOTS!!!!

So only liberals can define Hitler and how bad Hitler was...???

And I guess it’s okay for liberals to proclaim that anyone they disagree with is “literally” Hitler, too, right?

I get that it he fouled up his talking point, but geez louise. And really now— there are plenty of despots throughout world history who could arguably be described as “worse than Hitler”. You could carry on a debate forever on the subject.

Liberals are so freakin stupid !!!!! With their small, boxed-in tiny, little minds.


34 posted on 04/11/2017 6:24:33 PM PDT by bryan999
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To: brucedickinson

Repubs will start demanding his resignation in 5-4-3...


35 posted on 04/11/2017 6:24:58 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: brucedickinson

If you apologize even A LITTLE, this type of person is hugely emboldened and demands more and more and more.

Better not to apologize or explain at ALL.


36 posted on 04/11/2017 6:25:16 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Organic Panic

Exactly!!!

Why the EFF do these flunkies get to define Hitler???

Give me a break!!!


37 posted on 04/11/2017 6:25:34 PM PDT by bryan999
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To: brucedickinson
1940s Nazi dictator 'didn't even sink to ... using chemical weapons,'

This is true.

38 posted on 04/11/2017 6:25:46 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: brucedickinson
"don't mention the war. I think I got away with it..."


39 posted on 04/11/2017 6:26:11 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: SamAdams76
The apology was a huge mistake. You would think he would have learned that from his boss.

Or Nathan Brittles.

40 posted on 04/11/2017 6:27:04 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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