Hey, What's The Hurry? Hitler's Birthday Isn't 'Til Next Wk.!

Jim Morrill / The Charlotte Observer:

NC lawmaker calls Abraham Lincoln a ‘tyrant’ like Hitler  —  A day after setting off one firestorm, a Cabarrus County lawmaker set off another Wednesday by calling Abraham Lincoln “the same sort (of) tyrant” as Adolf Hitler.  —  Republican Rep. Larry Pittman of Cabarrus County made the comparison …

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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:   NC Republican Lawmaker Compares ‘Tyrant’ Abraham Lincoln To Hitler

Jeffrey C. Billman / News, Indy Week:   N.C. Representative Larry Pittman Calls Abraham Lincoln the “Same Sort [of] Tyrant” …

Peter Holley / Washington Post:   A Southern lawmaker called Lincoln a ‘tyrant’ and compared him to Hitler

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 Colin Campbell / Raleigh News & Observer:
NC legislator compares Hitler to Abraham Lincoln in Facebook post

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David Ferguson / Raw Story:   Republican NC state legislator: Abraham Lincoln was a ‘tyrant’ like Hitler for ending slavery

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Taegan Goddard / Political Wire:   GOP Lawmaker Compares Lincoln to Hitler

Mark Abadi / Business Insider:   A North Carolina lawmaker called Abraham Lincoln a ‘tyrant’ and compared him to Hitler

WSPA-TV:   NC lawmaker compares Hitler to ‘Tyrant’ Lincoln

 MJ Lee / CNN:
GOP congressman says Spicer ‘needs to go’ after Hitler comments

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Esther Yu Hsi Lee / ThinkProgress:   Republican congressman calls for Sean Spicer to be fired

Karma Allen / ABC News:   GOP Rep. Mike Coffman says Sean Spicer ‘needs to go’

Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:   Sean Spicer apologizes again for Hitler comment, says ‘I let the president down’

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:   Sean Spicer's embattled tenure as press secretary reaches its most precarious moment