What is he trying to do? Make Assad look worse than Hitler?
Assad is JV compared to Hitler.
Yep. You nailed it. In addition to making a ridiculously stupid statement about Nazi's not using gas the larger underlying point Spicer was trying to make was also a fail. As you say Assad is JV compared to Hitler.
Hey -- no one is perfect and Spicer had a bad day. He is a great communications director but just botched this one.
and Hitler was JV compared to Stalin. Your point?