Showing posts with label Nazi Germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nazi Germany. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Sean's bad day.

Image result for sean spicer images        I like to joke that "I have never had a bad day in my life". I mean just waking up every day means that you have already had a good day, right? 

But even I have to admit that some of my days have been worse than others.

There was the time (while still a teenager) that I took a date to a fancy restaurant thinking that I had enough to pay for the meal, only to realize, after we were seated at the table and looking at our menus, that I couldn't even afford one of the appetizers.

Other days come to mind. Like that Sunday in 2005 when I watched #5 puke over himself in the fourth quarter costing my Birds their first ever Super Bowl.

Still, those days are nothing like the day that Sean Spicer had today.

"The White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, set off an intense backlash on Tuesday when he suggested that President Bashar al-Assad of Syria was guilty of acts worse than Hitler and asserted that Hitler had not used chemical weapons, ignoring the use of gas chambers at concentration camps during the Holocaust. Mr. Spicer later apologized.

During his daily briefing for reporters, Mr. Spicer was defending President Trump’s decision to order a missile strike on Syria by trying to lend gravity to the actions of Mr. Assad. American officials accuse the Syrian president of using sarin gas, a lethal chemical weapon, in an attack on a rebel-held area of Idlib Province last week that killed dozens, many of them children.
 
But 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.
 
“We didn’t use chemical weapons in World War II,” Mr. Spicer said. “You know, you had someone as despicable as Hitler who didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons.”
 
He continued, “So you have to, if you are Russia, ask yourself: Is this a country and a regime that you want to align yourself with?”' [Source]
 
Huh???
 
Dude it's Passover! Stop it!
 
Four corrections and an apology later did not make Spicer's comments any less outrageous  and controversial.
 
But this is part of a bigger pattern with this administration and those on the right. This normalization of all things Nazi . It's actually kind of scary if you think about it, and this might actually explain Spicer's outrageous statement. It just didn't seem that out of the main stream to him to make such a declaration about Hitler.   
 
If I were to take a poll and ask who had a worse week between Pepsi, United, or Sean Spicer, who would you choose?  Personally, I would have to go with Sean. United and Pepsi are corporations and they will bounce back. Folks who like to drink Pepsi products will keep drinking them, and United is one of the airlines with a monopoly in this country. They will take a PR hit, but they will ride it out. Folks won't stop flying.  
 
Sean, on the other hand, is a terrible spokesperson working for a terrible president, who-- you heard it here first-- will soon be out of a job. 
 
"I was obviously trying to make a point about the heinous acts that Assad had made against his own people last week, using chemical weapons and gas. Frankly, I mistakenly made an inappropriate and insensitive reference to the Holocaust, for which there is no comparison," Spicer said. "And for that I apologize. It was a mistake to do that."
 
Shake it off, Sean. Tomorrow is another day. For your sake I just hope that our president isn't tweeting tonight. 
 
*Pic from cnn.com
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

The company you keep.

"...neurosurgeon and newfound conservative icon Ben Carson told Breitbart TV that America currently resembles Nazi Germany.


During the annual New York Meeting on Monday, Carson reportedly mentioned that we “live in a Gestapo age.” After the event, Fox News contributor Mallory Factor asked the doctor what he meant.
His response [emphasis added]:
I mean, [we are] very much like Nazi Germany. And I know you’re not supposed to say ‘Nazi Germany,’ but I don’t care about political correctness. You know, you had a government using its tools to intimidate the population. We now live in a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe. And it’s because of the PC police, it’s because of politicians, it’s because of news. All of these things are combining to stifle people’s conversation. The reason that is so horrible is because the only way you have harmony and reach a consensus is by talking. But if, in fact, people are afraid to talk, you never reach consensus. And instead you grow further and further apart. And that’s exactly what’s happening, creating a horrible schism that will destroy our nation." [Source]


Dr. Ben, here is the thing; I don't want to have a talk with anyone who uses Nazi analogies when talking about a government he opposes in this particular country.


Those comments were asinine and full of hyperbole. As far as I am concerned the good doctor is no different than Gil Switzer.


And in case anyone was wondering, Gil Switzer is the dude down in Georgia who hates this president so much that he found it necessary to fly the Nazi flag in his yard as a sign of protest.


"A Georgia man infuriated his neighbors recently after he decided to fly the Nazi flag in his back yard in protest of the dictator he believes President Barack Obama has become.


Warner Robins, Ga., resident Gil Switzer insisted that he is neither racist nor anti-Semitic, but that he believes Obama “shows the features and the behavior of a dictator,” specifically Adolph Hitler. To show his distaste for the president’s actions, Switzer has taken to flying a swastika.


His neighbors told WXIA-11 that they want the flag take down because, in spite of Switzer’s assertions to the contrary, they do believe it demonstrates racism." [Source]


So Dr. Carson has gone from a well respected neurosurgeon to a babbling right wing buffoon.
This saddens me, because Dr. Carson is a member of the church that I grew up in. He is also a man who I had an enormous amount of respect for because of his talent and hard work to get to where he is, professionally.

I actually met him once and found him to be a gentleman.  

Sadly, though, being a good doctor does not necessarily make him a good legislature or a good policy maker.

He should stick to what he does best: Being a doctor. Not going around making a fool of himself by parroting over- the-top rightwing talking points.