Sean Spicers selective apology tour
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Source: Think Progress
Apr 12
Sheldon Adelson gets a mea culpa for Spicers 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. Theres 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 Spicers 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
George II
(67,782 posts)canetoad
(17,088 posts)But I reckon that statement about Hitler and gas came straight from DFT.
cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)just a bit atleast as far as the assholyness and reckless stupidity area goes.
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)Lithos
(26,397 posts)Those who express any calories to call him on this shit got zero.. Those who are convenient tools got gold.
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Mc Mike
(9,106 posts)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.
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