The Shameless Sean Spicer Hitler Hypocrisy

Press secretary Sean Spicer publicly apologized several times for this comment about Bashar Assad, the murderous dictator of Syria: "You had someone as despicable as Hitler who didn't even sink to using chemical weapons." Spicer got hammered for supposedly minimizing the horror of the Holocaust.

MSNBC's Chris Matthews, in 2013, made the exact same comment about Syria's Assad: "It's been enforced in the Western community, around the world -- international community for decades -- don't use chemical weapons. We didn't use them in World War II. Hitler didn't use them. We don't use chemical weapons. That's no deal." What, no outrage?

Democrats and liberal media routinely compare Republicans to Hitler and Nazis, and Republican policies to fascism. They've done so for decades. Here are just a few examples:

During the 1964 presidential race, Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater accepted an invitation to visit an American military installation located in Bavaria, Germany. On "CBS Evening News," hosted by Walter Cronkite, correspondent Daniel Schorr said: "It is now clear that Sen. Goldwater's interview with Der Spiegel, with its hard line appealing to right-wing elements in Germany, was only the start of a move to link up with his opposite numbers in Germany." When Goldwater accepted the Republican nomination, Democratic California Gov. Pat Brown said, "The stench of fascism is in the air."

After Republicans took control of the House in the mid-'90s, Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., compared the newly conservative-controlled House to "the Duma and the Reichstag," referring to the legislature set up by Czar Nicholas II of Russia and the parliament of the German Weimar Republic that brought Hitler to power.

About President George W. Bush, billionaire Democratic contributor George Soros said, "(He displays the) supremacist ideology of Nazi Germany," and that his administration used rhetoric that echoes his childhood in occupied Hungary. "When I hear Bush say, 'You're either with us or against us,'" Soros said, "it reminds me of the Germans." He also said: "The (George W.) Bush administration and the Nazi and communist regimes all engaged in the politics of fear. ... Indeed, the Bush administration has been able to improve on the techniques used by the Nazi and Communist propaganda machines."

Former Vice President Al Gore claimed the Bush administration employed "digital" storm troopers, the paramilitary arm of Hitler's Nazi Party: "(George W. Bush's) executive branch has made it a practice to try and control and intimidate news organizations, from PBS to CBS to Newsweek. ... And every day, they unleash squadrons of digital brownshirts to harass and hector any journalist who is critical of the President."

NAACP Chairman Julian Bond played the Nazi card several times. Speaking at historically black Fayetteville State University in North Carolina in 2006, Bond said, "The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side."

After the 2012 Republican National Convention, California Democratic Party Chairman John Burton said: "(Republicans) lie, and they don't care if people think they lie. As long as you lie, (Nazi propaganda minister) Joseph Goebbels -- the big lie -- you keep repeating it."

In 2012, then-Chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party Dick Harpootlian compared the state's Republican governor to Hitler's mistress. When told that the Republicans were holding a competing press conference at a NASCAR Hall of Fame basement studio, Harpootlian told the South Carolina delegation, "(Gov. Nikki Haley) was down in the bunker, a la Eva Braun."

Following Donald Trump's election, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius invoked a comparison to the three-night murder spree in 1934 Germany carried out by the Nazi regime, saying about Trump's then-evolving transition team: "I think there is kind of a 'Night of the Long Knives' quality as this Trump team sorts out who is going to be on top, who is going to have the president-elect's ear."

Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said of then-President-elect Trump, "His ... senior adviser (Steve Bannon) is a Nazi. ... It's a big word. I don't usually use it unless somebody's really anti-Semitic, really misogynist, really anti-black."

Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the newly elected second-in-command at the Democratic National Committee, compared then-President George W. Bush and 9/11 to Adolf Hitler and the destruction of the Reichstag, the German parliament building: "9/11 is the juggernaut in American history and it allows ... it's almost like, you know, the Reichstag fire," Ellison said. "After the Reichstag was burned, they blamed the Communists for it, and it put the leader of that country (Hitler) in a position where he could basically have authority to do whatever he wanted."

The Spicer/Hitler-reference hysteria serves as just the latest example of left-wing hypocrisy, double standards and selective outrage.

Spicer was close to correct in what he said. According to Wikipedia, Hitler didn’t use chemical warfare in battle though he did one in Russia near the end of the war. Some say he didn’t want to because he was gassed in WW1.

I read somewhere that they gassed the concentration camp inmates because formerly they killed them by firing squad and the shooters couldn’t stand doing that on such a large scale.

But Hitler’s cruel experimentation with humans, the mass elimination of Jews and others ... Spicer shouldn’t have made the comparison.

Hitler didn't use chemical warfare in battle
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That's what he meant, of course.

I had read several historians take on this particular decision by Hitler. He had been informed that the British had massive stockpiles of lethal gas. That should his forces use it against allied forces, there would be a massive retaliation.

Another view is and conceded highly debatable is of Hitler's own experiences in France WW1. Gas was used by both sides. Some soldiers were blinded, but careful treatment by medical means, cured them. It was recorded that some soldiers became so distraught they could not see for much longer than normal. Their sight returned eventually. It was not documented as far as I know, but some say Hitler was temporarily gassed. He was a dispatch runner.

Sad, sad, it is that Sean Spicer could have stood on the 1st Amendment to the Constitution. Told them to move on, and stood firm. The awesome power of political correctness, is a menace. Two women candidates in Canada standing for leadership of the Conservative Party recently were wiped out. They teared up before left wing tools of the Justin Trudeau crowd. When interviewed on CBC.

Every one, please excuse this rant.

Didn't Churchill want to use poison gas but was overruled?

Yes, in Northern India years before, gas had been used against rebellious tribesmen. Churchill knew of their fanaticism and cruelty to prisoners. He had no compunction for any cruel agonizing suffering from gas attacks.

He then wanted the massive Royal Air Force bomber squadrons equipped with poison gas. His hatred of the Germans- with justification for their civilian targets in the UK, drove him to this. Top military advisers cautioned him against it.

Churchill is quoted as saying "Amongst the victors, there are NO war criminals". He was right, he conceded if the war was lost he would have faced legal retribution. Or worse.

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