Report: WH Official Called Shooting A ‘Reprieve’ From Admin Coverage

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 03: The south facade of the White House,  including the Truman Balcony,   October 3, 2016 in Washington, DC.   (Photo by Brooks Kraft/ Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 03: The south facade of the White House, including the Truman Balcony, October 3, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brooks Kraft/ Getty Images)
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After the cable news networks turned their attention away from the scandals plaguing the White House to a deadly school shooting in Florida last week, one White House aide reportedly felt a sense of relief.

“For everyone, it was a distraction or a reprieve,” an unnamed White House official told the Washington Post. “A lot of people here felt like it was a reprieve from seven or eight days of just getting pummeled.”

The comment referring to the school shooting as a “reprieve” invited quick denunciation on Twitter, with several media figures pointing out the insensitive remark.

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  1. I’m sure “reprieve” was just a poor choice of words. What the staffer meant to say was “welcome relief.”

  2. Sociopaths, all of them. More like vampires than human beings. It’s sickening.

  3. Avatar for gajake gajake says:

    It’s a malady that’s almost universal among Republicans - the inability to hear the words that come out of one’s own mouth.

  4. Need a new variety of psychopathy in the DSM 6: Repug Inhumanity.

  5. Glad to see the WH has its priorities in order. Murdered school kids? Not important. Golf game? Top o’ the list.

    It’s all about TwoScoops and his coterie of grovelling lickspittles.

    ETA: And now Jr is advising Dad “don’t go wobbly on guns”. I detest, with the heat of a thousand suns, all three of the arrogant, tone-deaf, conceited, self-important eldest children but of all of them, the one I most fervently wish to see go down, and go down hard, is Junior. :rage:

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