Posted on 04/12/2017 4:41:39 PM PDT by ErikJohnsky
Alan Dershowitz, a prominent Harvard Law School professor and liberal author, slammed the Democratic National Committee as hypocritical for politicizing White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s Hitler gaffe while ignoring its own problem with anti-Semitism. Mr. Dershowitz said on “CNN Tonight” that he’s willing to give Mr. Spicer “a pass” after the press secretary initially suggested during a briefing Tuesday, which also marked Passover, that Adolf Hitler didn’t use chemical weapons during WWII.
“What happened here is the guy screwed up,” Mr. Dershowitz said, according to a clip published by Real Clear Politics. “He apologized, and he apologized from his heart, and I am prepared to give him a pass on this.
“I’ll tell you who I am not prepared to give a pass on this,” he continued, “the Democratic National Committee that has immediately decided to politicize this and send out immediate tweets saying, ‘We can’t tolerate anti-Semitism or even a whiff of anti-Semitism.’ This is the Democratic National Committee, who has as its co-chairman Keith Ellison, who didn’t recognize the fact that he was working for an anti-Semite, [Louis] Farrakhan. This is just hypocrisy, and I think we should not make politics out of this.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/07/world/middleeast/a-weapon-seen-as-too-horrible-even-in-war.html
A Weapon Seen as Too Horrible, Even in War
By STEVEN ERLANGERSEPT. 6, 2013
EXCERPT
No Western army used gas on the battlefield during the global slaughter of World War II. Hitler, himself gassed during World War I, refused to order its use against combatants, however willing he and the Nazis were to gas noncombatant Jews, Gypsies and others.
If I were in Spicer's brain, I'd guess that in his mind, as in mine, he wasn't thinking that Hitler gassed his own people because to Hitler, the Jews weren't his people.
That's the statement I would've come back to the idiot Press Corpse (and I DO mean corpse as in dead!).
It seems clear to me...Spicer was trying to point out that Assad,unlike Hitler,used gas in a *combat* scenario.He worded his comment poorly (and who hasn't done *that* on occasion?) and now the Trump Derangement Crowd is attacking.
LIBS HAVE CHUTPAH, THEIR LIB UNIVERSITYS ARE HOTBEDS OF BDS WHICH WOULD DESTROY ISRAEL, AND DAVID HOROWITZ CAN’T SPEAK AT THESE SCHOOLS. NO.2 AT DNC IS ELLISON, AND HE DENIES THE HOLOCAUST LIKE HIS PAL FARRAKHAN. AND SPICER FORGOT THE GAS USE 75 YEARS AGO WAY BEFORE HE WAS BORN AN OVERSITE, AND THE LEFT HAS PHONY OUTRAGE. GIVE ME AND SEAN A BREAK.
SEAN NEEDS TO GO INTO THE PRESS ROOM WITH A WHIP A CHAIR AND A PISTOL TO PROTECT HIMSELF. SEAN HAS THE TOUGHEST JOB IN WASHINGTON DC.
My first words to the person who said that to me.
He did not chemically attack the enemy, nor the German people. He killed the people that were the object of his derangement.
A distinction within a distinction, but unintentional.
Bring your gas chamber or mobile execution van, and I'll bring a knife.
We'll see who wins the duel. 😀
These people are dangerously deluded.
He would have to share the last honest liberal award with Pat Cadel !!!!!
Why do it yourself? A bum would do it EAGERLY for 100 bucks.
Plus, you could videotape it, and make a mint.
And split it with the bum, after the fact.
I almost feel like Diogenes sometimes carrying around a lantern during the daytime, looking for an honest man; except I’m looking for a Democrat with integrity.
Maybe I’ve found one.
Ironically, if not Hitler's, they really were Germany's people. German Jews were quite assimilated until their persecution began in earnest in Nazi Germany.
Note to x
First, I am on Spicer’s side. But, second , this Hitler
comparison meme dispute has occurred over and over and
over again. When a Republican invokes Hitler he/she has
a much higher chance of getting crucified for it. We
all know it and so should Spicer. Personally, I am not
beyond making what some would choose to consider an
insensitive remark, especially in these hyper PC times.
However, this is truly low hanging fruit. The good news
for Spicer is that, true to form, the libtards including
the media lackies over play their hand and Sean will make
it thru OK.
Finally, my college degree is in history and I remember
enough about history issues to know that before displaying
my ignorance on national TV, I should do a little
review of my sources. This applies to all the abuse of
history done by the left, as well as, the right.
People who compare Trump and Bush to Hitler and Mussolini don’t have much credibility when criticizing Spicer for comparing Assad to Hitler.
“Democrats will politicize the day of the Second Coming when it happens.”
We’ll, most will still be here.
It's okay to bring up the Crusades and excoriate Christians. But never bring up Hitler.
By others you mean Christians, priests, nuns, disabled. Millions of them.
I understand in that brutal senseless carnage of WW1, German Jews fought the same war as their German comrades. Hitler must have been stark raving mad to have picked on the Jews. After two successes in Austria and the Sudaten.He then had troops invade Poland. The war was on, he had about six years to live.
On the subject at hand. Well said Dershowitz. Why Sean Spicer did not invoke the 1st Amendment to the Constitution is a pity. What could the scumbag press have done to him anyway?.....nothing!
I agree “he worded his comment poorly”. But if you
think about it there is almost no way to word it properly
to that crowd even though your explanation was pretty
damn good in my book. Those disgusting liberal bastards
will twist and conflate everything they can get away
with and I’m sure Sean learned a valuable lesson. Dabble with
Hitler and poison gas etc and you will pay for it if
you are GOP and just trying to make a comparison.
I watched a few minutes of that dude, Rachel Maddow’s show last night. I know, I know.
Rachel spent about 5 minutes trying to be funny and mocking Spicer. It was disgusting, turned the channel.
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