April 11, 2017 01:32 PM UTC

Spicer: Assad Worse Than Hitler, Yes Really, I'm Doubling Down

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• by: Colorado Pols

Jaws from coast to coast are agape this afternoon following an unbelievable Passover White House press briefing, in which Press Secretary Sean “What Do I Have To Do To Get Fired” Spicer claimed that…we’ll let CNN explain to make sure we get it right:

White House press secretary Sean Spicer, in an effort to shame Russia’s alliance with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his use of chemical weapons, said Tuesday Adolf Hitler “didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons” during World War II.

While Hitler did not use chemical weapons on the battlefield, Hitler and the Nazis used gas chambers to exterminate Jews, disabled people and others.

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

The comment immediately reverberated online and audible gasps could be heard in the press briefing room after the Spicer made the comment.

Spicer attempted to correct himself…very, very badly:

Reporters in the briefing room offered the Holocaust as an example of chemical weapons use.

“He brought them into the Holocaust centers, I understand that,” Spicer said.

“But in the way that Assad used them, where he went into towns and dropped them down to innocent in the middle of towns,” he added, defending his statement. “I appreciate the clarification, that was not the intent.”

The comment did not clear up the controversy, especially considering Spicer seemingly referred to concentration camps as “the Holocaust center.”

Obviously, Hitler did most certainly use chemical weapons against his own people, and those people were innocent–though we realize that some supporters of President Donald Trump might take issue with that last assertion. Either way, the overwhelming historical consensus is that yes, Adolf Hitler was considerably worse than Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and that includes being worse in the specific arena of use of chemical weapons against innocent civilians.

And please. For the love of everything decent in the world. Put Sean Spicer out to pasture.