Ol’ Spicey gets treated with frost

“In misconstruing the facts of the Holocaust — Nazi Germany’s brutally efficient, carefully orchestrated extermination of six million Jews and others — Mr. Spicer instead drew a torrent of criticism and added to the perception that the Trump White House lacks sensitivity and has a tenuous grasp of history.”

 

Sean Spicer Raises Outcry With Talk of Hitler, Assad and Poison Gas
The New York Times

 


 

Ol’ Spicey gets treated with frost
By press folks who see him as lost.
He knows nothing of history…
Google could solve the mystery,
If he’d just type the word “Holocaust!”

© 2017 Thomas Horton

 


He has shown that he’s vulgar and crass

Spicer said he has not spoken to the president about his widely condemned mistake from the podium Tuesday during the White House press briefing.

 

‘I sought people’s forgiveness because I screwed up,’ he said in a subdued tone.”

 

Sean Spicer: ‘I’ve Let the President Down’

 

Graphic by Rafael Barker


 

 

He has shown that he’s vulgar and crass,
And he surely knows how to harass;
But, for once, he’s outdone
By his own hired gun
Splitting hairs over murder by gas.

© 2017 Colleen Anderson

 


Dismissive of Holocaust Victims

“Answering a question about Russia’s potential complicity in the Syrian chemical attack last week, Spicer stretched for a Nazi Germany comparison.

 

‘You had someone who was as despicable as Hitler who didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons,’ he said. ‘So you have to, if you are Russia, ask yourself is this a country that you and a regime that you want to align yourself with.’

 

Er, what? Hitler, of course, used lots and lots of chemical weapons — in the sense that he ordered the executions of millions of Jews in gas chambers during World War II.

 

Given that history, Spicer was asked later in the briefing to clarify his comments. In trying to do so, he made it worse.

 

[…]

 

Spicer’s Hitler comments virtually ensure another news cycle lost to an unforced error.”

 

Sean Spicer just forgot the 1st rule of politics: Never compare anything to Hitler
CNN


 

Dismissive of Holocaust victims,
the lapdog delivered his dictum
with one fatal flaw:
He forgot Godwin’s Law.
(Hey Trump, arncha sorry you picked him?)

© 2017 Mary Boren