Comments on: TX Eagle Forum Compares President to Hitler

By: TFN

TFN — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:24:01 +0000

Do as I say writes:

The media are currently apoplectic about the Obama-as-Hitler references at town hall meetings across the country.

As we have reported again and again, they are often incorrectly ascribing these references to talk radio host Rush Limbaugh and conservatives – as it is lunatic fringe Leftist Lyndon LaRouche that is making these Obama-as-Hitler posters and comparisons.

So Ben Stein and Glenn Beck are LaRouchites when they compared President Obama to Hitler and Mussolini?
http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=40816
http://mediamattersaction.org/smears/200909170014
http://gawker.com/5347396/glenn-becks-hysteria-reaches-new-heights-with-obama-saddam-comparison

And Rush Limbaugh is a LaRouchite, too?
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200908060021

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200908100022
http://mediamatters.org/research/200908070023

Wow. Who knew?

The truth is that the kooky fringe right — which includes people like Beck, Limbaugh, Stein and Cathie Adams — frequently compare President Obama and his actions to Hitler, Mussolini, the Nazis and the fascists. And yet, the Republican Party of Texas has now named one of those fringe right-wingers — Adams — as their leader.

By: Do as I say... Not as I do

Do as I say... Not as I do — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:22:41 +0000

Bush as Hitler, Swastika-Mania: A Retrospective
http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=612

The media are currently apoplectic about the Obama-as-Hitler references at town hall meetings across the country.

As we have reported again and again, they are often incorrectly ascribing these references to talk radio host Rush Limbaugh and conservatives – as it is lunatic fringe Leftist Lyndon LaRouche that is making these Obama-as-Hitler posters and comparisons.

But this collective media conniption at references to the President as Der Fuhrer is a new development. Back in the George W. Bush days, the Jurrasic Press was far less reviled by the often made Bush-as-Hitler comparisons, and indeed some saw similarites.

As you can see in the video at right. Anyone remember CNN’s Susan Roesgen? She is the recently ex-CNN reporter who made a name for herself by assaulting on-air April 15 TEA Party protesters this past Tax Day.

But this clip is from January 13, 2006, with Ms. Roesgen reporting from New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina. During which she says, in reference to a man in a giant Bush head with a Hitler mustache (and devil horns):
“City officials aren’t the only ones wondering when federal money will materialize. Catholic school girls marched on Jackson Square. They and their teachers say more money is needed to fix the levees, and they hoped the President would stop by after his meeting with business leaders. But while a look-alike showed up with a wad of cash, Mr. Bush did not.”

“Look-alike?” Where’s the outrage? Where’s the indignation?

Like LaRouche today, these were Leftists making the comparison. And the media didn’t seem to mind.

What has changed between then and now? Oh yes, the Party of the occupant of the Oval Office.

Some Presidents, it seems, are more equal than others.

—Seton Motley is Director of Communications for the Media Research Center and Contributing Editor for NewsBusters.org.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/seton-motley/2009/08/13/cnn-video-2006-bush-hitler-mustache-no-outrage-called-look-alike

By: Cytocop

Cytocop — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:16:02 +0000

Donna complained about the president – any president – speaking directly to students and how offensive that is to her. Well, advertizers have been addressing kids directly over the airwaves for decades. “Hey kids, you need to buy this, because it’s cool.”

I guess when the broadcast message is capitalist (i.e. buy this, buy that), that makes the direct contact with kids OK.

Charles, the health care lies will never see the light of day as long as corporate interests and their lobbyists are in control.

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:30:41 +0000

I enjoyed watching that jerk who started all of this, the head of the Florida Republican Party, squirm when the news media gave him the 3rd degree bout why none of his “dangerous stuff” was in the speech. At one point, I honestly think his skin color change to be as white as a bed sheet.

It’s too bad that all the health care lies and their creators cannot be brought to the same fate.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:33:56 +0000

Donna, now that the speech has been made and the reactionary hubbub was clearly unwarranted, are you willing to admit that you were needlessly fearful and accusatory?

By: Rocket Mike

Rocket Mike — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:48:26 +0000

Projection, it’s called projection. The wingnuts are projecting their own partisanship and lack of ethics onto the President. They can’t see how he can make a speech without spewing vile hatred as they would, given the chance.

By: Cytocop

Cytocop — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:15:38 +0000

And I wish these jerks would make up their minds: Is Obama a Nazi or a Marxist? When he first appeared on the political scene, he was a marxist. Now, apparently, he’s a nazi. Or he’s both?? Fascinating that one can be both at the same time.

By: Cytocop

Cytocop — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:06:12 +0000

Let’s talk about this so-called “bringing politics into the classroom.” When I was in 4th grade, we kids were all herded into the school gym to watch on TV Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khruschev speak to the General Assembly of the United Nations. Though, Premier Khruschev was the world’s leading communist at the time, my REPUBLICAN parents said not one word of protest about their kids being “forced” to listen to the leader of Communist U.S.S.R. Rather, my Republican parents wanted their kids to be educated about the world and what was going on in it. But back then – back in the Dark Ages – people wanted their kids educated.

Now today’s GOP is verbally assassinating the president for encouraging kids to study, stay in school, be responsible, etc. etc. Apparently, today’s REPUBLICAN parents don’t want their kids to be educated about the world or to be encouraged to stay in school, etc etc.

And if staying in school and studying hard is a “socialist” message, am I to gather then that NOT working hard and dropping out of school is the counterpart capitalist message? Well, from what we’ve seen from today’s right-wingnuts, I’d say their message is getting through loud and clear.

And I submit to you that it is the Republican TX SBOE who want to bring politics into the classroom.

By: Charles

Charles — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:55:16 +0000

Yeah, capitalist men all have dirty hands from counting their lucre.

By: Lenna Webb

Lenna Webb — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:42:27 +0000

During all this dust up over the President’s speech, one explanation made very clear to me that in our form of government, the president wears two hats: That of a politician and that as a head of State. In England, for instance, two different people wear those hats. The politician makes political speeches. The Head of State speaks for the country and it’s common good. It is the Head of State who will be speaking to our children! It is ludacris to compare the “sins” of other countries to what is happening here. Those protesting this need to get a life, or as one talking head said Sunday, “That’s just plain stupid”.