White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Wednesday that anybody questioning the success of a counterterrorism raid in Yemen is doing "a disservice" to the U.S. commando killed during the operation.
"Yemen has withdrawn permission for the United States to run special operations and ground missions against suspected terrorists in the wake of the recent raid there that claimed so many civilian lives," NBC News' Kristen Welker asked Spicer during his daily press briefing. "Do you stand by your assessment that it is a success?"
"It's absolutely a success, and I think anyone that would suggest it's not a success does a disservice to the life of Chief Ryan Owens," Spicer replied.
"But even Senator John McCain—" Welker began.
"I understand that. I think my statement's very clear on that," Spicer said. "I think anybody who undermines the success of that raid owes an apology and ... [it's] a disservice to the life of Chief Owens."
That's what happens when you surround yourself with incompetents and wastes of space AND put them in charge. The rank and file who just want to do their jobs don't take kindly to it and all of a sudden everybody knows everything.
Constant venting to outsiders is also a way to stay sane in the madhouse.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Wednesday that anybody questioning the success of a counterterrorism raid in Yemen is doing "a disservice" to the U.S. commando killed during the operation.
"Yemen has withdrawn permission for the United States to run special operations and ground missions against suspected terrorists in the wake of the recent raid there that claimed so many civilian lives," NBC News' Kristen Welker asked Spicer during his daily press briefing. "Do you stand by your assessment that it is a success?"
"It's absolutely a success, and I think anyone that would suggest it's not a success does a disservice to the life of Chief Ryan Owens," Spicer replied.
"But even Senator John McCain—" Welker began.
"I understand that. I think my statement's very clear on that," Spicer said. "I think anybody who undermines the success of that raid owes an apology and ... [it's] a disservice to the life of Chief Owens."
White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Wednesday that anybody questioning the success of a counterterrorism raid in Yemen is doing "a disservice" to the U.S. commando killed during the operation.
"Yemen has withdrawn permission for the United States to run special operations and ground missions against suspected terrorists in the wake of the recent raid there that claimed so many civilian lives," NBC News' Kristen Welker asked Spicer during his daily press briefing. "Do you stand by your assessment that it is a success?"
"It's absolutely a success, and I think anyone that would suggest it's not a success does a disservice to the life of Chief Ryan Owens," Spicer replied.
"But even Senator John McCain—" Welker began.
"I understand that. I think my statement's very clear on that," Spicer said. "I think anybody who undermines the success of that raid owes an apology and ... [it's] a disservice to the life of Chief Owens."
By that reasoning of course, Trump does a disservice to the military who have died in Iraq over the last decade when he absolutely questions the success of that war. "Disaster" is I believe the term he uses.
I don't know, I think this was Spicer's worst moment today.
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Sean Spicer just now: I can only hope that if Coretta Scott King was still with us, that she would support Senator Sessions's nomination.
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With DeVos, I'm reminded of medieval times when only the clergy were allowed to read. Only now, the ones in power can't read. The world has really turned on its head!
If nothing else Trump has made Gorsuch's hearing more difficult. You can expect question after question of the Dems trying to make him say Trump is wrong. And when he does say Trump is wrong, is Trump going to bash his own nominee?
Oh look, we'll get to find out even before the hearings
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Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch on Wednesday called President Donald Trump’s recent attacks on the judiciary “demoralizing and disheartening” in a private meeting with Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.), the senator said, in remarks confirmed by the team tasked with ensuring the judge’s confirmation.
Sen. Blumenthal, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the former Connecticut attorney general, said he asked Mr. Gorsuch to respond to Mr. Trump’s recent outbursts after a federal judge temporarily blocked his executive order to suspend entry of travelers from seven majority-Muslim countries out of national-security concerns.
The White House referred a request for comment back to the confirmation team
In advocating for their cause, many activists engage in extreme protest behaviors – defined here as protest behaviors that are highly counter-normative, disruptive, or harmful to others, for example the use of inflammatory rhetoric, blocking traffic, damaging property, and disrupting other citizens’ everyday activities (c.f., 5). Past research suggests such tactics are effective in attracting media coverage of a movement, helping draw attention to its central concerns (6-9). However, here we argue that while extreme tactics may succeed in attracting attention, they typically reduce popular public support for the movement by eroding bystanders’ identification with the movement, ultimately deterring bystanders from supporting the cause or becoming activists themselves.
Or, in other words,
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@lhfang
Milo gained nearly twice the Facebook followers in the week after Berkeley blackbloc (around 400k) than two years of the Intercept existing.
... Utterly predictable.
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