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Spicer: "Even Hitler didn't sink to using Chemical Weapons" (Actually, he did)
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Each news outlet has their own assigned seating. Most of the time, these news outlets send the same person to do these pressers, but sometimes they sent alternates. But yeah:
This was the seating chart for after Trump was immediately inaugurated. It has changed a bit since then, but I don't have the updated one at my disposal.
April Ryan is the Washington Bureau Chief for "American Urban Radio Networks", so from there you can guess where the other people in the image are.
2Smashed4U
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I was wondering why that gif looked like it was from 10 years ago and how they all managed to keep the same assigned seats for so long
Principate
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I like how this is the only rely you bothered to answer. Not the rest.
"Hissy fit" implies she's having a gross overreaction to a comparatively insignificant situation, as opposed to dealing with the absolute bile projected from the spokesperson for one of the most powerful men on the planet.
Trojita
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They probably were.
2Smashed4U
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Wasn't April Ryan the reporter Trump said that shitty thing about the black caucus to, like he assumed they all knew just knew each other or something like that?
Holy shit, someone edit this so they're facing each other.
peteykirch
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Then how come everyone else in frame can sit there stone faced?
Not having convulsions.
I don't really care what she does, but it's a little extreme, the way she reacted you'd swore Spicer called her mother a terrorist or something.
yep that was her. "are you going to arrange the meeting?"
oh man, that presser... that was one of the bigger trainwrecks
Extreme? Fuck that shit. This is the most grotesquely dishonest administration of the past hundred years of American History, and it's barely 80 days in. Literally every day they are showered with dozens of lies. They should be screaming Spicer down in outrage at the way he has debased the respectability of the institution. Spitting in his face at the WH calling the press an enemy of the American people.
April Ryan's expressions cannot go far enough to properly express the bullshit having to deal with this WH on a daily basis is. Better than the sick journalist fucks who chuckle and normalize this treasonous administrations daily vomit.
Velcro Fly
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He could have called her mother any name under the sun and it wouldn't have been as bad as what he actually said.
old manatee
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Yeah, it's like Spicer denied that Hitler gassed Jews or something. What a drama queen.
2Smashed4U
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Each news outlet has their own assigned seating. Most of the time, these news outlets send the same person to do these pressers, but sometimes they sent alternates. But yeah:
This was the seating chart for after Trump was immediately inaugurated. It has changed a bit since then, but I don't have the updated one at my disposal.
April Ryan is the Washington Bureau Chief for "American Urban Radio Networks", so from there you can guess where the other people in the image are.
It's interesting that none of the west coast papers are ever really included in these things, like the LA Times or anyone.
Maybe because she'll be one of the first ones they come for once the police state is in full effect.
I still can't wrap my head around the fact that Hitler popped up in this discussion about Syria. Like who the hell brought this comparison into the discussion? Besides thinking that it's a good idea to use it in public, but somebody actually thought that Hitler can be used as a benchmark for evilness in a positive way or something. WTF?
Maybe that was the day Trump told her to tell the other black people in the Congressional Black Caccus to come meet with him cause she obiviously knows them all, or the day Spicer berated her like a child because she wouldnt accept his words as truth..
peteykirch
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Except what you see in the gif didn't happen today when Spicer denied Hitler gassed Jews.
BlastProcessing
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Holy shit, you were being serious. You should send her a note on proper behavior; I'm sure she would appreciate it.
He said something worse than just accusing her mother of terrorism, to be honest.
Her reaction isn't extreme, it's weirder to see others NOT react similarly.
Maybe it happened during one of the five thousand two hundred and eighty three other comically outrageous lies Spicer has vomited since inauguration day?
Or like going to fake media outlets on Skype, perhaps?
I'd argue that her reactions are actually rather tempered, considering the situation, but honestly her "convulsing" is too minor to get into deep discussion about how "professional" it is. If her reactions were really that bad, we'd be seeing it all over right wing media.
Yeah, the White House Press Secretary just downplayed the Holocaust, followed by his office bungling the clarification 4 times, but let's deride the black woman who decided to make faces showing her disgust instead.
What in the hell is wrong with some people?
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Well, there it is.
What in the hell is wrong with some people?
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Well, there it is.
Veritigo_X
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Jesus. Are you okay peteykirch?
Holy shit.
peteykirch
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Nope, it was 2 months ago.
It might've been during his first presser where he claimed Don's Inauguration was the largest attended ever
Have you ever seen a child throw a hissy fit? That woman's looks of disgust are not anywhere near what I'd call a hissy fit and the fact you keep trying to paint it as is if she's performing for camera's she can't even know are focusing and actually shooting her. Seriously what's your game here?
peteykirch
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Because I found her reaction funny?
It's not common to see a reporter just start making faces and what not like that.
AnathemicOne
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You can be damned sure the West Coast press wouldn't have such BS thrown at then face to face.
I see you're well versed on how fucking obscene this administration is. Perhaps it is because she's a black woman expressing anger and frustration outwardly and this makes you nervous?
Who cares, really? Her reaction is not worse than what she is reacting to, unless you're trying to make that argument?
Speaking of unprofessional. Do you throw that much shade at Trump, the president of the United States that does on near nightly twitter rants? Just wondering. Trump and his administration have set the bar so low at the White house I'm not even sure how that lady is registering for you at this point.
Right so why the fuck is this your stance....the stream of bullshit coming out who ever is that podium justifies that response.
2Smashed4U
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SeaOfMadness
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He completely ignored the fact that Hitler employed gas chambers for what I can only guess could be one of two reasons:
1) He'd forgotten about their existence and/or didn't realize there were gas chambers at all
2) He knew about them, but figured that they weren't as bad as dropping chemicals by plane because they weren't "his own people"
At absolute best, he's woefully ignorant.
At worst, he's a denier/diminisher
Either way, he's not fit to be in that position. Period.
peteykirch
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No, I just find it funny and different since we aren't used to seeing professional reporters react that way.
I have no issue with her making faces and what not, I really don't.
It's just well...different?
The reporters ideally are supposed to be indifferent and just report the facts, no matter how much you disagree with what you're being told, you're not supposed to show bias.
I know it's the idealist answer and is pretty much a farce nowadays, but I don't know.
You forgot the bit where gas chambers are the important distinction between a chemical weapon and god knows what
The way this thread went from being focused on Spicer stupid, ignorant and hurtful comments to "You know, maybe he was into something" to "look at the black lady throwing a hissy fit while the rest of the people look professional" is just amazing.
Me reading the last page:
Don't forget "Well TECHNICALLY, gas chambers aren't weapons."
Man with Knife
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The lady behind the blinking lady is always throwing a hissy fit during these pressers.
Weren't you the guy that threw a hissy fit because an Amazon package got delivered two hours late during holiday season? lol
If that's a "hissy fit" then she's remarkably restrained considering she has to suffer through listening to these idiots on a regular basis.
Neuromancer
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Well peteykirch, it's not common to have to listen to the absolute nonsense coming out of these press events either.
She's not showing bias. She's showing disbelief, surprise and anger the same as most Americans are probably feeling every day right now.
Muffin1611
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My point still stands. Nazi Germany developed them early on, was the first nation to do so, and had the capacity to manufacture them in kilograms and tons, as only war party. That was in the late thirties. I'm fully aware that the Alliance caught up later on, Hitler could have used it before that though.
peteykirch
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I didn't throw a hissy fit, I just wanted to make sure the company know they didn't live up to their shipping guarantees.
Aaah, there it is.
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