Tur Can Poke Fun at Spicer’s History Gaffe, But She Has Her Own List of Them

Nicholas Fondacaro | April 11, 2017
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For White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, Tuesday was filled with embarrassment after he made a historical gaffe when trying to compare Bashar al-Assad to Adolf Hitler. During MSNBC’s MTP Daily, fill-in host Katy Tur poked a little fun at the Press Secretary. “Sean Spicer stepped in it a little while ago at the press briefing room when he compared or tried to make a comparison to Hitler saying: ‘not even Hitler gassed his own people with this type of gas,” she told reporter Hallie Jackson. Tur might want to be careful throwing those stones since she herself has had an issue with recalling more recent history.

Back on February 20, Tur got into something of an argument on air with Florida Republican Congressman Francis Rooney. During a discussion about possible Russian connections to Trump’s campaign, Rooney tried to remind Tur that President Obama had made a promise to Russian President Vladimir Putin to be “more flexible” after the 2012 election. Tur then infamously blurted outI'm sorry, I don't know what you're referring to, Congressman.

After a couple uncomfortable moments, Tur ended the segment. Soon after, she took to Twitter to explain her ignorance. Her excuse was: “To be fair, I didnt [sic] touch politics in 2012. I almost exclusively covered fires and shootings in NYC area.” “And I'd rather be honest about what I know and don't know in the moment,” she wrote in a second tweet. But that wouldn’t be the last time she would make a flub when it came to history. 

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