Trump spokesman makes horrific Hitler gaffe at White House

White House press secretary Sean Spicer speaking about the Assad regime’s chemical attacks, the White House, yesterday:

Someone as despicable as Hitler didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons …

That is wrong. At the Killing Centres, US Holocaust Memorial Museum website:

In some killing centres, carbon monoxide was piped into the chamber. In others, camp guards threw “Zyklon B” pellets down an air shaft … Usually within minutes after entering the gas chambers, everyone inside was dead from lack of oxygen.

Spicer continues to speak for some reason. The White House, yesterday:

When it comes to sarin gas, (Hitler) was not using the gas on his own people the same way that Assad is doing.

Wrong. German Jews During the Holocaust 1939-1945, US Holocaust Memorial Museum website:

In all, the Germans and their collaborators killed between 160,000 and 180,000 German Jews in the Holocaust, including most of those Jews deported out of Germany.

Spicer just kept talking at the White House, yesterday:

He brought them into the Holocaust centres, I understand that.

They weren’t Holocaust centres, they were death centres. At the Killing Centres, US Holocaust Memorial Museum:

The Nazis established killing centres for efficient mass murder … killing centres (also referred to as “extermination camps” or “death camps”) were almost exclusively “death factories”.

Spicer tries to say sorry and yet he’s able to make another mind-blowingly stupid mistake. CNN, yesterday:

I needed to make sure I clarified and I was not … a distraction from the President’s decisive actions in Syria and the attempts he’s making to destablise the region.

New York Post columnist John Podhoretz on Twitter, yesterday:

Sean Spicer is not a Holocaust denier or an anti-Semite or anything sinister. What he is, is a blithering idiot.

We can all agree Hitler used chemical weapons, but can we agree Stalin was a monster? Appears not. Controversial University of Sydney tutor Jay Tharappel on Twitter, November 21, 2014:

Yes, Stalin was the biggest mass murderer of Nazis in history, sorry that this offends you.

You may have heard of Jay after he accused an Armenian-Australian of wanting a “second Armenian genocide”. Daily Telegraph, yesterday:

University of Sydney casual tutor Jay Tharappel launched the attack on Daily Telegraph political reporter Kylar Loussikian for exposing close links between academic Dr Tim Anderson and Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.

If you think Assad is cool, Stalin must be a great dude … Tharappel on Twitter, November 21, 2014:

Most of the claims against him are exaggerated or false.

Yes, Joseph Stalin was bad. Stanford University website, September 23, 2010:

Stalin had nearly a million of his own citizens executed, beginning in the 1930s. Millions more fell victim to forced labour, deportation, famine, massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin’s henchmen.