Sean Spicer's comments on Hitler shredded by single MSNBC chyron

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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.

"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.

Spicer, given a chance to clarify his statements, followed up with this:

When you come to sarin gas, there was no, [Hitler] was not using the gas on his own people the same way Assad is doing. I mean there was clearly -- I understand your point, thank you, I appreciate that -- there was not, in the ... he brought them into the holocaust centers, I understand that. But I'm saying in the way that Assad used them where he went into towns, dropped them down to innocent, into the middle of towns, it was brought -- so, the use of it. I appreciate the clarification there it was not the intent.

And later, this statement:

"Also, they weren't called 'Holocaust centers'" was probably too many words to squeeze into MSNBC's graphic.

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