CBS Goes Low, Hurls Personal Insults at Spicer Over Hitler Blunder

Nicholas Fondacaro | April 11, 2017
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Tuesday was an, unfortunately, embarrassing day for White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, after he made a self-admitted “blunder” while trying to compare Syria’s Bashar al-Assad to Adolf Hitler. Spicer claimed that not even Hitler used chemical weapons on his own people, even though he did during the Holocaust. In response, all three of the liberal Big Three networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) lead their evening programming with the gaff. But CBS got bizarrely personal by mocking him directly and even questioning his intelligence.

Another blunder from the podium,” announced Anchor Scott Pelley during the CBS Evening News opening tease, “White House errors of historic proportions.

After the tease, Pelley kicked the show off by gleefully mocking Spicer’s misfortune and touting the hassle he was creating for President Trump. “The job of the White House press secretary is to articulate the positions of the president and to clean up the occasional presidential mess,” he joked, “They are not supposed to create any messes for the president. But it happened again today…

Pelley went on to scold Spicer, stating: “The Holocaust, apparently, was not on Spicer’s mind today, and to make matters worse, this is the Jewish holiday ‘Passover.’

That chide was soon followed up by reporter Nancy Cordes who got in her own shot at Spicer with: “It isn't often that Hitler is compared favorably to anyone, but it happened today when the White House press secretary was condemning Syria's Bashar Assad for gassing his own people.” 

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