{"id":98171,"date":"2017-04-12T21:48:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T01:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=98171"},"modified":"2025-01-28T14:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:22:13","slug":"congressman-spicer-comments-not-without-some-validity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/12\/congressman-spicer-comments-not-without-some-validity\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman: Spicer comments &#8216;not without some validity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_90969\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90969\" style=\"width: 853px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/White-House-spokesman-Sean-Spicer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90969\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/White-House-spokesman-Sean-Spicer.jpg\" alt=\"A North Dakota congressman says White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's remarks about Adolf Hitler and Syrian President Bashar Assad are \u201cnot without some validity.\u201d (Screenshot of a White House video on Youtube)\" width=\"853\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/White-House-spokesman-Sean-Spicer.jpg 853w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/White-House-spokesman-Sean-Spicer-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/White-House-spokesman-Sean-Spicer-768x428.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-90969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A North Dakota congressman says White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer&#8217;s remarks about Adolf Hitler and Syrian President Bashar Assad are \u201cnot without some validity.\u201d (Screenshot of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2kagnaxYUPc\">White House video on Youtube<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BISMARCK, N.D. \u2014 A North Dakota congressman says White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer&#8217;s remarks about Adolf Hitler and Syrian President Bashar Assad are \u201cnot without some validity.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy ventolin inhaler online <a href=\"https:\/\/neramedprep.org\/scripts\/css\/ventolin-inhaler.html\">https:\/\/neramedprep.org\/scripts\/css\/ventolin-inhaler.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Republican Rep. Kevin Cramer says he wasn&#8217;t trying to excuse Spicer&#8217;s remarks, which he called \u201ca bad illustration\u201d and \u201cstupid.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy stromectol online <a href=\"https:\/\/neramedprep.org\/scripts\/css\/stromectol.html\">https:\/\/neramedprep.org\/scripts\/css\/stromectol.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spicer was widely criticized after Tuesday&#8217;s White House briefing when he told reporters that Hitler \u201cdidn&#8217;t even sink to using chemical weapons.\u201d Critics noted the remark ignored Hitler&#8217;s use of gas chambers to kill Jews during the Holocaust, and Spicer apologized.<\/p>\n<p>Cramer commented on Spicer&#8217;s remarks Wednesday in an interview with Scott Hennen, a conservative radio host in North Dakota.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy voltaren online <a href=\"https:\/\/neramedprep.org\/scripts\/css\/voltaren.html\">https:\/\/neramedprep.org\/scripts\/css\/voltaren.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Later, Cramer told The Associated Press he thinks Spicer meant to say \u201cHitler didn&#8217;t use chemical weapons in warfare &#8230; which is technically true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cramer, in his third term, is seen as a potential challenger to Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. \u2014 A North Dakota congressman says White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer&#8217;s remarks about Adolf Hitler and Syrian &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":90969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[12837,14224],"class_list":["post-98171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-bashar-assad","tag-sean-spicer","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286517,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98171\/revisions\/286517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}