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Right Wing Continues to Fantasize About Obama
NJDC Blog —
... know this? It is hard to imagine that an ambassador would use such a sophomoric and immature analogy when conversing with a head of state or writing a strategy memo for his superiors. Why should a column in a major Israeli daily paper, Yediot Aronot, be any different? There could be kids reading it in addition to dignitaries.
But that’s exactly what the right wing is reduced to these days: promoting myths, Nazi comparisons, and absurdly inappropriate analogies. Exactly how does this elevate our political ...
Glenn Beck Likens Criticism of Fox News To The Holocaust
TPMCafe —
The Obama administration offered some mild criticism of Fox News the other day (it called its reporting opinion and not news and labelled it a de factor arm of the GOP. Glenn Beck responded by likening this onslaught to the murder of Six Million Jews.
Beck said: "When they're done with Fox, and you decide to speak out on something. The old, 'first they came for the Jews, and I wasn't Jewish' {comes to mind}."
Here is the clip.
By now we should all be used to the right's use of the millions of holocaust victims (Jews, gays, Gypsies, Poles, etc), as ...
BlogTalk: What Is Up With This Hitler Talk?
The Caucus —
... titled “future leaders” is empty. What is it with these Nazi references? Of course, they persisted against Republicans in the last administration, too. But lately, they seem more prevalent. Fox News’ Glenn Beck compared the White House decision to shun his network (remember when the President went on five Sunday talk shows and skipped Fox?) to the seeds of the Holocaust. Media Matters, the left’s watchdog against the right, captured it , with Mr. Beck saying: When they’re done with Fox, and you decide to speak out on something. The old, “first they came for the Jews, and I ...
Cavalcade of Nazi Comparisons Continues
NJDC Blog —
... Hathaway admitted to posting signs likening Obama to Hitler on three northern Idaho schools
GOP Senatorial Candidate Peter Schiff (R-CT) compared his campaign to fighting against the Nazis in WWII.
Representative John Linder (R-GA) published an opinion piece in Politico comparing Obama to Hitler and Mussolini
Fox News’ Glenn Beck declared on his radio show that Obama’s treatment of Fox News resembles the Nazis’ treatment of Jews during the Holocaust. This comes after he ...
How Fox Distorts The News To Promote The Republican Party Line
Liberal Values —
... has also listed a sampling from October alone:
…here’s a recent example of where the Fox News family broke from the standards of professional journalism and clearly pushed a falsehood.
Here’s another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and ...
A Guide for the Perplexed
Comments from Left Field —
... quite like ABC. Here’s [...] another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and ...
Beck, conservative media use violent rhetoric suggesting White House will retaliate against Fox News and opponents
The Hollywood Liberal —
... think they’re going to leave you alone if you want to ask a tough question? Do you really think that a man who has never had to stand against tough questions and has as much power as he does — do you really believe after he takes out the number one news network, do you really think that this man is then not going to turn on you? That you and your little organization is going to cause him any hesitation at all not to take you out?” [Premiere Radio Networks’ The Glenn Beck Program , baselessly suggested that people who reportedly claimed to have received unsolicited email from ...
Fox News paints White House criticism of Fox as diversion to distract from health care reform debate
The Hollywood Liberal —
... think they’re going to leave you alone if you want to ask a tough question? Do you really think that a man who has never had to stand against tough questions and has as much power as he does — do you really believe after he takes out the number one news network, do you really think that this man is then not going to turn on you? That you and your little organization is going to cause him any hesitation at all not to take you out?” [Premiere Radio Networks’ The Glenn Beck Program , 10/13/09 ] Rove: “[T]hey’re going to come hard at you, and they’re going to cut your legs off.” ...
I'm Sure This is Good News for Republicans
Booman Tribune —
Irrational Exuberance in Anti-Obama Hatred
NJDC Blog —
NJDC’s Press Secretary, Aaron Keyak, published a piece in The Huffington Post about the Republican Party’s failure to rein in Holocaust rhetoric and anti-Semitism. Keyak writes:
The National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) has been keeping track of the vile Holocaust/Nazi/fascist/treasonous/anti-Semitic/racist rhetorical comparisons leveled against President Barack Obama and other Democratic leaders; I feel dirty just overseeing the collection of this data. While some in the Republican Party claim ...
Aaron Keyak: Irrational Exuberance in Anti-Obama Hatred
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Dissent may be patriotic; hate and racism aren't.
The National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) has been keeping track of the vile Holocaust/Nazi/fascist/treasonous/anti-Semitic/racist rhetorical comparisons leveled against President Barack Obama and other Democratic leaders; I feel dirty just overseeing the collection of this data. While some in the Republican Party claim to have distanced themselves from this hate speech, it is incumbent on the party opposing the President to unequivocally disown this sort of rhetoric and ...
Top Five Inaccuracies of RJC’s 11/10 Blog Post
NJDC Blog —
... are part of a much broader movement against health care insurance reform. Additionally, the “cranks” often appear at—or in some cases are invited to—official events sponsored by Republican leaders.
Despite conservative dismissal, there do appear to be rhetorical connections between swastika carrying protestors at various events throughout the country and syndicated conservative pundits such as Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, both of whom have repeatedly invoked the Holocaust. ...
