Nazis

If you’ve ever found yourself pondering this question, then you should probably get yourself to the “How to Take Back America Conference” in St. Louis on Sept. 26. The Minnesota Independent’s Andy Birkey reports that once there, you will be able to attend a number of eye-opening workshops, in addition to the “Nazis and Communists” [...]

Via HotAir, which pitches it as a “marine go[ing] nuclear on Democrat over Obamacare,” here’s a video making the rounds on the right: David Hedrick, a “member of the silent majority,” accusing the Democrats of being Nazis at a town hall held by Rep. Brian Baird (D-Wash.).
I’ll remind you, a little history lesson. The Nazis [...]

Hours before The Associated Press ran its piece yesterday on the protester in Hagerstown, Md., calling for the death of President Obama, “Michelle and her two stupid kids,” TWI commenter “Dave,” who apparently attended the Ben Cardin town hall, had the story.
His sign didn’t just say ‘death to obama.’ It also said ‘death to michelle [...]

Gabriel Winant’s interview with “birther queen” Orly Taitz is a fun read, and I notice that she used the forum of a “you’ve got to be kidding me” profile to claim that “it was an outrage that she’d seen an image of her juxtaposed to a swastika online, because she’d lost relatives in the Holocaust.”
What [...]

Ed Morrissey and John McCormack, two smart conservatives, have two dishonest responses to this morning’s discovery that a popular “Obama=Hitler” poster was created by the cult of fringe Democratic activist Lyndon LaRouche. Morrissey calls the LaRouche poster “the origin of the ‘Nazi’ references at a handful of town-hall protests.” McCormack calls the LaRouche activists “left-wing [...]

A conservative Michigan blogger is accusing Democrats and “union thugs” of “planting” a man holding a sign comparing President Obama to Adolf Hitler at a town hall meeting held by Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.). The evidence: One FreeRepublic.com member claimed to see the man (who was African-American) passing out Dingell literature.
The truth is a little [...]

The Anti-Defamation League is out with a statement shaming Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives for bringing Nazi and Hitler comparisons into the debate on health care. ADL’s national director Abe Foxman takes direct aim at the radio talk show host for his extended comparison, on yesterday’s show, between the modern Democrats and the Nazis, like [...]

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 [...]

On Tuesday, Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-Mo.) held a press conference on the “cash for clunkers” program and was met by “dozens” of conservative protesters trying to drown him out. The protest was organized by the St. Louis Tea Party, whose Bill Hennessy told protesters the location, the time, and what to bring (”Sign ideas: Cash [...]

During President Obama’s Cairo trip earlier this month, the press corps finally uncovered the truth about President Obama: by saying “shukran” — the Arabic word for “thanks” — to an Arabic-speaking audience, he secretly converted to Islam. Today the story gets even curiouser.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited the White House today. And by the White [...]