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tavalon

(27,985 posts)
5. Spread this one far and wide
Thu Apr 13, 2017, 04:02 AM
Apr 2017

And don't worry about people bitching about Facebook. That happens to be the new media. That's why we must be very careful about our reporting on Facebook. We are, as strange as it sounds, the new media. Follow old media's standards. It's all we have left of them. Source well, and report.

 

WinkyDink

(51,311 posts)
6. Spicer's multiple apology-gaffes notwithstanding, he revealed a mind-set, an apathy towards history
Thu Apr 13, 2017, 04:09 AM
Apr 2017

and to Jews, that must be prevalent in this White House, never mind Jared, or Bibi, or what have you. Who the HELL has ever said "Holocaust centers"??

No Jewish victims mentioned ON REMEMBRANCE DAY?

Spicer did not mis-speak in the sense of saying what he did not mean.

He mis-spoke in the sense of not caring about truth, history, and decency.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
9. Exactly. Germany's Jews weren't Hitler's "own people"? And
Thu Apr 13, 2017, 04:54 AM
Apr 2017

"Holocaust Center"?? It sounds like he views those as some kind of tourist destination.

The president's spokesman denying the evils of Nazi Germany in front of cameras, instead of ony among fellow sympathizers in private, is just more proof that he is unbelievably incompetent.

The fact is, of course, that the Third Reich's extreme fascist, antisemitic and genocidal behaviors were the product of an extreme right that is represented by a number of people within the Rump administration and even his inner circle, and of course in some of his most ardent supporters.

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