Fire the man. Or let him resign. I don't care. But do it now.

Do it for reasons that are nothing short of humane. He's overmatched out there, by his job, by the sheer venality and incompetence of the president* he serves, and by the English language. Fire Sean Spicer. Do it now, for his own good, before he says something that causes some group to storm the Press Briefing Room and light him on fire.

Throw the damn towel!

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From The Washington Examiner:

"You had someone as despicable as Hitler who didn't even sink to using chemical weapons," Spicer said in response to questions about the implications of Assad's chemical attacks.

Then he made it worse.

Hitler was "not using the gas on his own people in the same way that Assad is doing."

"His own people." On Passover.

There is no way for White House to spin this. It is, or ought to be, a career-killer for a spokesperson. I don't know what they teach folks in Flack School but, surely, don't talk about Hitler from behind a podium with a presidential seal on it has to be no worse than Lesson Number Three. My guess is that's been an iron rule for White House press secretaries since V-E Day.

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Press Sec. on Hitler/Assad comments: "He was not using the gas on his own people the same way...he brought them into the Holocaust centers." pic.twitter.com/mO9EsWM4QT — ABC News (@ABC) April 11, 2017

Spicer was clearly trapped up there by the administration's ever-evolving rationale for blowing up a Syrian cafeteria the other day. He was trying to turn a simple act of sophisticated destruction into a blow for humanity and a landmark in the fight against tyranny. (Why shouldn't he? After all, many very important pundits called it exactly that.) But the Syrian government was back using the airfield the next day, and the administration seems to be on both sides of a civil war in which one side is backed by Russia.

No spokesman in the history of the world—not even St. Paul, who was probably the best one ever—could sell this lemon of a story. So Spicer went groping after some threadbare bit of historical justification and fell all the way down the well. He has to go, for his own good.

His apology was no better:

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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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