Reich From the Beginning

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Friday, August 07, 2009 at 12:39 pm

Glenn Greenwald is doing some good work right now, following up on a post about the 2004 frenzy over MoveOn.org’s “Bush in 30 Seconds” contest — when a few anonymous people submitted videos comparing Bush to Hitler, and a media firestorm erupted — by asking some of the people who attacked MoveOn about Rush Limbaugh’s comparison of Democrats to Nazis. In 2004, the American Jewish Congress criticized MoveOn for letting something “morally outrageous” onto its Website. Today:

The Limbaugh comments comparing Obama (and Pelosi) to Hitler and the Nazis are grossly offensive and intolerable. They reflect a nasty and hyperbolic tendency on our political culture, one which makes reasoned discourse impossible, confuses disagreement with evil, and which makes it impossible to distinguish evil from ordinary politics.

Greenwald is still hounding the people who attacked MoveOn, and I’m especially interested to hear from the Anti-Defamation League. They’re one of the few such groups who can generate instant national headlines by accusing someone of trivializing the Holocaust. For Limbaugh to accuse the party that scored 77 percent of American Jews’ votes in 2008, a party of which every Jewish member of Congress except Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) is a member, of being modern Nazis, goes far, far beyond what a MoveOn contest loser did in 2004.

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lindasprowl
Comment posted August 8, 2009 @ 8:29 pm

Right-wing EXtremists are sabotaging all attempts by Congress to clarify or define details of the health care reform bill at States' town hall meetings. Only policemen can handle these out-of-control Republicans who have been stirred to a frenzy by Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Newt Gingrich and the others. All pretense of actually being interested in a discussion about health care reform is completely blown. The Republicans are all about violence and doing harm to anyone who gets in their way. This is not an example of democracy but rather, lynch mob action simply because they loss an election. Can you imagine what it would be like if they were still in control? Please do something. These people are threatening the President's LIFE. Why aren't they being arrested? They are now threatening ANYONE who happens to be in their way. They've bought all the guns and ammunition around the country. They are disturbing the peace. This WILL escalate. Why aren't they being arrested? Are the police selling US out?


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Comment posted August 12, 2009 @ 6:35 pm

It's too bad context and comprehension seem to be foreign concepts in our country today. If you bother to listen to Limbaugh's comments, he is responding to Speaker Pelosi's statement that the Town Hall protesters are carrying swastikas – a clear implication that they are Nazi-like in their approach and/or philosophy. So Limbaugh responds with:

“Nancy Pelosi is the Speaker of the House. She is very powerful, one of the most powerful people in the country. This is what I mean by unraveling. She's running around now claiming that we're Nazis, that not only are we an unruly mob but that people are showing up wearing swastikas…She's basically saying that we are Nazis. She is saying that the people who oppose this are Nazis, and I'm going to tell you what. I'm going to run down the list here later on in the program, but this party, the Democrat Party and where it's taken this country, the radical left leadership of this party bears much more resemblance to Nazi policies than anything we on the right believe in at all, and I'll go through that list in just a second.”

and then describes why he feels that the Left in America has more similarities to the Third Reich than the Right. But remember – it was in response to something said by the Speaker of the House. And in case it has escaped your notice, one is an elected leader and one is a self-described entertainer. You can decide who bears the higher burden for maintaining the proper level of dialog in America…


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Comment posted August 25, 2009 @ 1:21 am

There's one problem with your argument.

There were, in fact, protestors carrying swastikas. There's no implication or anything else there, just a statement of fact. And in response to this, instead of condemning anyone who would trivialiaze the holocaust by employing the symbolism of the Nazi Party for political purposes, Limbaugh turns around and, ironically, starts comparing Pelosi to the Nazis.

Seriously, think this through. Was Pelosi supposed to just ignore the fact that Nazi symbolism was (and is) being used in a debate about health care? Don't you see how that is dangerously irresponsible? To then reply by actually making Nazi comparisons is dishonest to the extreme.

Limbaugh is very, very bad for this republic, the very nation that protects his right to say whatever he wants. What an incredible whore.


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