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riversedge

(69,707 posts)
Wed Apr 12, 2017, 11:12 PM Apr 2017

Sean Spicers selective apology tour

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Source: Think Progress






Apr 12

Sheldon Adelson gets a mea culpa for Spicer’s Holocaust remarks. The Anne Frank Center does not.


White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has spent the past 24 hours on an apology tour after he downplayed the magnitude of the Holocaust during a Tuesday press briefing. His stops on the tour include a special, one-on-one apology to casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who is Jewish.

Oddly enough, Adelson — who has given a fortune to supporting both the Republican Party and the Israeli right — seems to be the only person who warranted a personal mea culpa from Spicer. There’s no indication that Jewish members of Congress or Jewish organizations in the United States have received similar apologies; the White House has not replied to a request to comment.

A spokesperson for Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), one of the dozens of lawmakers who condemned Spicer’s remarks on Tuesday, told ThinkProgress that Nadler had not heard anything from the White House — nor, as far as he knew, had any other Jewish members of Congress. An aide to a Democratic senator said much the same thing.

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Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/spicer-apologized-to-a-jewish-megadonor-but-not-to-jewish-members-of-congress-410ded8bfd83

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Sean Spicers selective apology tour (Original Post) riversedge Apr 2017 OP
As far as I'm concerned, if he said it he was thinking it. George II Apr 2017 #1
Sean isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer canetoad Apr 2017 #2
Ha, thats an understatement. In fact Sean reminds me of the guy in this video cstanleytech Apr 2017 #5
So Much For Trying To Improve tRump's First 100 Days... Grassy Knoll Apr 2017 #3
Truth is this Lithos Apr 2017 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author truthisfreedom Apr 2017 #6
He also apologized to dRump for 'letting him down'. Mc Mike Apr 2017 #7
The facsist bullshittery tour... reflection Apr 2017 #8
Locking... DonViejo Apr 2017 #9

George II

(67,782 posts)
1. As far as I'm concerned, if he said it he was thinking it.
Wed Apr 12, 2017, 11:14 PM
Apr 2017

canetoad

(17,088 posts)
2. Sean isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer
Wed Apr 12, 2017, 11:25 PM
Apr 2017

But I reckon that statement about Hitler and gas came straight from DFT.

cstanleytech

(26,080 posts)
5. Ha, thats an understatement. In fact Sean reminds me of the guy in this video
Thu Apr 13, 2017, 01:18 AM
Apr 2017

just a bit atleast as far as the assholyness and reckless stupidity area goes.

Grassy Knoll

(10,118 posts)
3. So Much For Trying To Improve tRump's First 100 Days...
Wed Apr 12, 2017, 11:42 PM
Apr 2017

Lithos

(26,397 posts)
4. Truth is this
Thu Apr 13, 2017, 12:27 AM
Apr 2017

Those who express any calories to call him on this shit got zero.. Those who are convenient tools got gold.

L-

Response to riversedge (Original post)

Mc Mike

(9,106 posts)
7. He also apologized to dRump for 'letting him down'.
Thu Apr 13, 2017, 06:15 AM
Apr 2017

Saw that on the screen crawl under the Maddow show, yesterday.

Their lies are so laughable, transparent. Sheisskopf dRump puts sheisskopf Spicer in as our country's official spokesnazi. We didn't want him in there, dRump did.

Then Spicer says something stupid and nazified, and everyone in the country weighs in on how much we hate him. Which prompts him to give his apology to dRump.

dRump 'is the real victim, here'.


This is 3 in a row from the dRump admin, in terms of blatant antisemitism and Holocaust denial. It isn't a gaffe. First they didn't mention Jewish victims in their Holocaust Remembrance Day statement. Then dRump 'hosted' a passover celebration, without attending, and neither did his 'Jewish' daughter and junior-prez son-in-law. Now his official mouthpiece pretends not to know that zyklon b was used against German Jewish civilians, and says he thinks that death camps were 'holocaust centers'.

This isn't surprising, they aren't 'blundering' into doing these things, they're doing them because dRump is a nazi. He's always pointing to his 'Jewish family', to say 'nobody can call me anti-semitic'. He can stick them up his ass. His only actual interactions with Jewish people are with his organized crime buddies.

This anti semitism is purposeful. He was forced to jettison anti semite Flynn and demote anti semite Bannon, and his copious number of nazi adherents are really unhappy about losing their seat at the table. So he's dog whistling pro-nazi antisemitism to his froggie posting fans, to try and keep them on board.

reflection

(6,286 posts)
8. The facsist bullshittery tour...
Thu Apr 13, 2017, 08:41 AM
Apr 2017

is waiting to take you away....
Waiting to take you away

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
9. Locking...
Thu Apr 13, 2017, 09:50 AM
Apr 2017

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