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youtube.com - 15 days ago

Rep. Israel Condemns Tea Party Protest Holocaust Signs (video)

— youtube.com — Rep. Steve Israel (D - New York) condemns the use of Holocaust images by Tea Party protesters and calls on Republican leaders to apologize. (more) Rep. Israel Condemns Tea Party Protest Holocaust Signs ...

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washingtonmonthly.com - 16 days ago

Note the date

— washingtonmonthly.com — NOTE THE DATE.... Today, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) hopes to lead a small army of right-wing activists around Capitol Hill, in the hopes of derailing health care reform. But let's not lose sight of the context here -- Bachmann has... (more) Note the date

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talkingpointsmemo.com - 16 days ago

Getting Whackier

— talkingpointsmemo.com — Sigh, I knew this would get fun. As you know, Rep. Michele Bachmann is planning her mega-Capitol Hill Tea Party tomorrow followed by Bachmann leading Tea Partiers through the halls of Congress demanding Congress not take away their health care.  ... (more) Getting Whackier

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Talking Points Memo:  The Freak Show We Live In

Think Progress:  Jewish Organizations Condemn GOP For Standing By As Tea Party Protesters Waved ‘Vile’ Anti-Semitic Signs

Ben Smith's Blog:  ADL decries 'failure of Republican leadership' on Holocaust imagery

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The Freak Show We Live In
Talking Points Memo — ... It's a pretty unhappy commentary that it has to be reported as news that people are taking issue with the use of pictures of the Dachau death camp as an illustration of the horrors of health care reform. But, alas, such is the world we're living in. Today Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) criticized Rep. Bachmann for the Holocaust imagery --- and really, what the hell is going on here? People carrying banners with Dachau and the crowd chanting "Nazi, Nazi" when the President and key Dems are mentioned. And GOP leaders just stand their whooping it up like it's all good stuff? ...

Jewish Organizations Condemn GOP For Standing By As Tea Party Protesters Waved ‘Vile’ Anti-Semitic Signs
Think Progress — ... of Nazi and Holocaust rhetoric” and called out GOP leaders who stood in plain view of the signs but ignored them. The Simon Wiesenthal Center demanded that the rally organizers “publicly repudiate the use of Nazi and Holocaust imagery.” Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) made similar comments in a video he posted on YouTube, singling out the rally’s organizer, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN): ...

ADL decries 'failure of Republican leadership' on Holocaust imagery
Ben Smith's Blog — ... Democrats have pressed the GOP to condemn the imagery and another sign claiming Obama "takes his orders from the Rothschilds," an apparent anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. ...