"I don't think Sean Spicer is an anti Semite or Holocaust denier . . . ."

[Stinky The Clown]

". . . . But he was a complete moron today."

Charlie Sykes, on with Brian Williams tonight.

[madaboutharry]

1. Spicer is not smart.

His intellect is average, like everyone else over there. Even Kushner, with the Harvard degree his daddy bought for him, is average.

No one in The White House is intellectual. That's why it's a mess.

[Behind the Aegis]

2. Maybe, maybe not.

There are many varieties of anti-Semites. Not all are swastika-painting skinheads or gravestone defiling assholes. Same goes for Holocaust deniers; not all are along the vein of David Icke and his ilk. What is quantifiably known is this man is a complete dipshit and ignorant as the day is long, and is as stupid as a outlet licking half-wit!

[leftynyc]

17. He's definitely been influenced by

the alt-right - those cretins are always desperate to downplay hitler and the holocaust. Bannon probably gave him that article in newsmax that made the comparison

[Docreed2003]

3. While I agree Spicer is no intellectual giant....

Today's bizzare statement, coupled with the bizarre "Holocaust centers" comment, reeks of an alt right shout out. To say such a thing during Passover week is even more disgusting.

[Chevy]

6. Was in an article in Newsmax on Sunday

about comparing the two.

[murielm99]

7. That is what my husband has been saying.

He thinks Spicer was influenced by and reflecting the alt-right, or what I prefer to call the white supremacist-bigoted outlook, of the current White House. I refuse to soften what they are by using the term alt-right.

The fact that Spicer has enjoyed a reputation as a nice guy has nothing to do with it. A nice guy to a white person like me can still be a bigot toward POC.

I don't know how Ivanka and her husband fit into all this. It is just as contradictory and confusing as everything else they do.

We must keep calling them out on all the abnormal, contradictory things they do. Maybe we can get rid of them early, but I will not hold my breath.

[duncang]

12. Been hanging around bannon too long. nt

[Skittles]

4. the man minimized HITLER'S culpability

that's pretty damning evidence of SOMETHING

[malaise]

11. That simple n/t

[mzteaze]

5. Some are...

Some are trying to make it out as if this wasn't what it was....

I will say, he managed to use every possible term that links with what those in the alt-right use. So, you can try to write it off as a "misstep" but honestly he's managed to intentionally or unintentionally mangle so much easily researchable facts - it's very hard to just write it off as a mistake.

He's no intellectual giant but he ain't as much of a fool as some want to paint him either. Painting him broadly with the fool's label really undercuts the severity of his actions IMHO.

[world wide wally]

8. What's after Holocaust centers?..... Torture malls?.....The Dept of degradation?

[orleans]

9. i seem to be stuck on the phrase "holocaust center"

just can't shake it.

how much of a fucking asshole idiot do you have to be to refer to the concentration camps as holocaust centers?

in sean's tiny little piece of shit mind would that be like a rec center without the fun? or a senior center? or more like a day spa perhaps?

he runs his mouth in his blathering idiot way and pukes out total crap



(note to admins: please never take away the puke smiley)

[madville]

10. If you bring up Hitler

you have automatically lost the argument or had no point to begin with.

[Ilsa]

13. I'm with Lawrence on keeping him....

45 doesn't deserve a smart, eloquent press secretary who knows what he's talking about or how to communicate it.

Rachel did a segment too. She confessed to it being a tough job, but said Shifty Spice (my nickname) wasn't up to it. She talked about him getting acronyms wrong, too.

[Barack_America]

14. Only anti-Semetic holocaust deniers have "Holocaust centers" in their vocabulary bag.

And such a person should not be speaking for the POTUS, regardless of how much a POS he happens to be as well.

[Johnny2X2X]

15. He was repeating what he heard

This reeks of someone who heard something around the White House and repeated it without really thinking about it.

[KingCharlemagne]

18. Or who learned his history from pseudo-anonymous Facebook posts, i.e. Alt-facts - nt

[Warren DeMontague]

16. It was just such an asinine thing to say, it's hard to make heads or tails of it.