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Spicer apologizes for 'insensitive' reference to Holocaust

What Spicer said was dumb-ass but I seriously doubt it was meant derogatorily towards Jewish people or meant to deny the Holocaust.

I actually feel bad for the guy. By all accounts he's a decent human being who's been put in a position of being the mouthpiece for a man who changes his mind on important issues as often as he changes his underwear. It can't be easy being him.
Just not sure if his constant are product of the environment he has to work in or if he's simply unqualified.
 
Ikari said:
lol, could you imagine what this country would look like if it were run by DP? Probably on par with the Trump Administration.
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Case in point. Hyperbolic statement with little substance. I might have agreed with the first part, since it offends everyone equally, but then you had to add the second part just to insult Trump.
 
Gaius46 said:
What Spicer said was dumb-ass but I seriously doubt it was meant derogatorily towards Jewish people or meant to deny the Holocaust.

I actually feel bad for the guy. By all accounts he's a decent human being who's been put in a position of being the mouthpiece for a man who changes his mind on important issues as often as he changes his underwear. It can't be easy being him.
Just not sure if his constant are product of the environment he has to work in or if he's simply unqualified.
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Of course it wasnt, he just wasnt thinking before speaking. Thats our comment section culture. Everyone thinks the everything coming out of their mouth is truth and clever. And Spicer needs to learn his lesson, think, and act professionally.
 
jonny5 said:
Case in point. Hyperbolic statement with little substance. I might have agreed with the first part, since it offends everyone equally, but then you had to add the second part just to insult Trump.
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Obama is out, he's old material.

partisans...they have no sense of humor.
 
I cannot imagine anyone being as stupid as Spicer in this situation.

I know he didn't mean it in a hateful way, but geeeeeeees!
 
danarhea said:
Spicer has apologized for making that quote, but Jewish groups are still demanding that Trump fire him.

I will defend Spicer here. He isn't a holocaust denier. He is just a ****ing moronic asshole.

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Yeah, I agree. What that shows us though is that is how Spicer thinks; he doesn't measure what he's saying because he;s constantly on the defensive and he's constantly on the defensive because he doesn't know what he's talking about in any given situation.
 
Fire him immediately.

What a dolt.
 
danarhea said:
Spicer has apologized for making that quote, but Jewish groups are still demanding that Trump fire him.

I will defend Spicer here.

He isn't a holocaust denier. He is just a ****ing moronic asshole.

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spicer isnt even that

The hyper offended lefty Jews are the morons

It was an innocent remark
 
Mac77 said:
spicer isnt even that

The hyper offended lefty Jews are the morons

It was an innocent remark
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You do know it struck a chord with conservative Jews, right?
 
Fiddytree said:
You do know it struck a chord with conservative Jews, right?
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I know that spicer apologized for the remark

Which is his call to make

But it was an innocent remark that harmed no one
 
Mac77 said:
I know that spicer apologized for the remark

Which is his call to make

But it was an innocent remark that harmed no one
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But conservative Jews called him many names, including a "blithering idiot."
 
Fiddytree said:
But conservative Jews called him many names, including a "blithering idiot."
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If they remain in their right minds on everything else but go bonkers over this nonsense I can live with that
 
danarhea said:
Spicer has apologized for making that quote, but Jewish groups are still demanding that Trump fire him.

I will defend Spicer here. He isn't a holocaust denier. He is just a ****ing moronic asshole.

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I agree. It would be funny, but his incompetence really isn't acceptable, and this incident is just the latest in a long line of stupid mistakes by a person who really cannot afford to make them in that position. He should have been fired long ago.
 
Mac77 said:
If they remain in their right minds on everything else but go bonkers over this nonsense I can live with that
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And your infinite wisdom defines "bonkers," does it? I would prefer a bit more competence.
 
Spicer speaks for the president and the US. And both are almost incoherent.

The only thing he has going for him is that his vocabulary is greater than the 200 words his boss uses.;)
 
Fiddytree said:
And your infinite wisdom defines "bonkers," does it? I would prefer a bit more competence.
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You are a trump hater so your opinion does not count with me.

But if you can quote some conservatives Jews who want to lynch spicer I will try to set them straight
 
Mac77 said:
You are a trump hater so your opinion does not count with me.

But if you can quote some conservatives Jews who want to lynch spicer I will try to set them straight
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Scorn and hate are not the same thing. Trump isn't worth the effort of hate. His lovers don't understand it.
 
Cardinal said:
My feelings on this administration are not especially...positive. That said, this is getting blown out of proportion.

Spicer is an unbelievable idiot, but I watched the video and I didn't see or hear a holocaust denier, I saw a guy who panicked because he had no idea what the narrative was supposed to be. Between the fact that nobody in the entire administration is on the same page, and that it is impossible for someone in his job to have a clue whether distrust of Assad and/or Putin fits into any cohesive existing policy due to Trump's personal feelings about Putin, the FBI's ongoing investigation into collusion with Russia and the public's concern for that potential collusion, Spicer simply didn't know what to do.

Is it beneficial to praise or condemn Assad? Is he supposed to praise or condemn Putin? Does a position on either deepen or lessen the collusion scandal? He doesn't know because I sincerely doubt he's even briefed by the President.

And so Spicer just kept ad libbing it, eventually and inevitably sticking both feet thoroughly into his mouth.

So his problem is that his job is an impossible situation and he's not bright enough to navigate it. But that guy's no holocaust denier.
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Stop saying what I want to say.

Spicer's problem is that he was too aggressive at the outset, often clashing with reporters, such as the attendance at the inauguration; it was a 'non-issue' in the first place and only served to further erode trust by the media of he and Trump.

With that chasm wide open, and the arrogance displayed relations entrenched as a war zone. In say, Reagan's, Clinton's etc., this would have been a blip, a giggle for the day and that's all.

Trump and company believe they don't need the media, which anymore can be true, but a stupid strategy as we see here, a relatively minor slip [face it, he's right....thought of chemical weapons weren't even considered) but he mentioned "Hitler", usually a trigger and now he's being wall papered again over two or three days.

No one will ever base their decision on something like this. But it is another straw on the load to be carried by those voters we don't hear from, the 'undecided" or those who are too busy to take the time. The straws add up.

If anyone has the time read about the Johnson administration, the one where he had to run and how that 'great society' thing became a joke. It was actually a rather fair piece of legislation, but by that time there had been too many issues, too many straws on the pile.
 
Fearandloathing said:
Stop saying what I want to say.

Spicer's problem is that he was too aggressive at the outset, often clashing with reporters, such as the attendance at the inauguration; it was a 'non-issue' in the first place and only served to further erode trust by the media of he and Trump.

With that chasm wide open, and the arrogance displayed relations entrenched as a war zone. In say, Reagan's, Clinton's etc., this would have been a blip, a giggle for the day and that's all.

Trump and company believe they don't need the media, which anymore can be true, but a stupid strategy as we see here, a relatively minor slip [face it, he's right....thought of chemical weapons weren't even considered) but he mentioned "Hitler", usually a trigger and now he's being wall papered again over two or three days.

No one will ever base their decision on something like this. But it is another straw on the load to be carried by those voters we don't hear from, the 'undecided" or those who are too busy to take the time. The straws add up.

If anyone has the time read about the Johnson administration, the one where he had to run and how that 'great society' thing became a joke. It was actually a rather fair piece of legislation, but by that time there had been too many issues, too many straws on the pile.
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Trump might as well fight with the media since they are his sworn enemies and no amount of pandering to them will change that.
 
Mac77 said:
Trump might as well fight with the media since they are his sworn enemies and no amount of pandering to them will change that.
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Define "pandering"


Is there an American out there that DOESN'T believe everything is a conspiracy?

IF te media are his sworn enemies, it was Trump did the swearing and for a very clever reason. The fat pig knows everything out there about him is exaggerated and he's too shallow to try to defend it, so he created a demon in the media...

and all the tin soldiers fell into line chanting the party mantra.

American conservatives aren't just predicable, they're a cliche'.
 
Mac77 said:
Trump might as well fight with the media since they are his sworn enemies and no amount of pandering to them will change that.
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Trump fired the opening shot and believes that any media that doesn't toe his line and swallow his 'alternate facts' is the enemy.....

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!
3:48 PM - 17 Feb 2017
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