Sean Spicer's comments on Hitler shredded by single MSNBC chyron
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer had a particularly Sean Spicer-y press conference on Tuesday afternoon, mistakenly telling reporters that Hitler never used chemical weapons.
He's since clarified — twice — but as the controversial flub unfolded, MSNBC was ready with a spot-on retort in the form of a succinct breaking news chyron.
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"You had someone as despicable as Hitler who didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons," Spicer said, comparing Hitler to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, who has been accused of dropping chemical weapons on his own people. Uh, not so much, MSNBC's chyron basically said.
MSNBC with the winning chyron. pic.twitter.com/BxVFpBooVF
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) April 11, 2017
Spicer, given a chance to clarify his statements, followed up with this:
And later, this statement:
A clarification on his clarification, @PressSec says this: pic.twitter.com/w0wmfFA0Do
— Elizabeth Landers (@ElizLanders) April 11, 2017
"Also, they weren't called 'Holocaust centers'" was probably too many words to squeeze into MSNBC's graphic.
