UPDATED: Michelle Malkin takes photo with man holding swastika Obama sign
February 17, 2009 5:37 pm ET by Karl Frisch
Just the messenger. According to ProgressNowColorado:
That's noted right-wing shill Michelle Malkin posing with who we've dubbed "Swastika Guy," owing to the sign he carried right onto the stage with State Senator Josh Penry, Congressman Mike Coffman, Colorado GOP Chairman Dick Wadhams, State Senator Dave Schultheis, former Congressman Tom Tancredo, and Independence Institute president Jon Caldara, among others. None of whom did anything about it, and in fact one person defended the guy to one of our people saying that the swastika is not a Nazi symbol, but an honored Native American symbol.
UPDATE: Ohhhh, wait a minute. I get it. The man with the sign isn't professing his affinity for Nazis. He isn't even identifying himself as a Nazi. The swastika in question has a circle around it forming an O and the rest of the sign reads "BAMA". Get it? Obama is a Nazi. That's much better. Sigh.
I am so tired of both sides using the Nazi insult. The other day that idiot Mike Malloy did the same thing.
Just stop it, morons.
Magnoliaflower, you state that "Seems as though the right wing keeps thinking that liberals are both socialists and Nazis? I wish they would just try to pick one, and stick with it."
Just what is it that you think the Nazi's were? Conservatives? Limited government supporters? Nope. They were unhinged (now pay attention to this next part)... National Socialist. Do I need to break down the two words for you or do you get the correlation?
Marxism, Nazism, Communism, and frankly an argument can be made that Fascism all spring forth from a traditional (L)iberal ideal of a powerful centralized omnipotent national government gone out of control. Thus you have the symbolism tied to the correct person.
Now I will not make a case that Mr. Bush did not deserve some of the similar comparisons made of him, but his crime was more of radically expanding the power of the executive. Unfortunately he was not the first to do so and the balance of power between the branches is teetering out of control. The legislative has been de-fanged between the active judicial and the shortcutting executive over the past 50 years. Now do you think Obama will curtail that power? I think not.
I'm pretty sure that's just the wrist strap from his camera. :)
Not that it's hard to believe he would hold a little noose either. You know, "as a joke".
None of whom did anything about it, and in fact one person defended the guy to one of our people saying that the swastika is not a Nazi symbol, but an honored Native American symbol.
The swastika does predate the co-option of it by the Nazis by thousands of years (it is a Sanskrit word, not native American) but I doubt that's what these cretins had in mind.
From Malkin's site about a year ago on the Obama/Che connection:
Look, you just can’t hide from Che’s history. It’s like putting a David Duke for President bumper sticker on your car and then explaining that for you, personally, it’s just about traditional values and not about white nationalism. It’s like flying a Hezbollah flag and just claiming that you’re not for terrorism or wiping out Israel, you’re just opposed to Zionism. This swastika tattoo? Why, it’s just a Hindu/ American Indian good luck symbol, friend–not a Nazi thing at all. Shame on you for thinking so.
From their own lips to your ears.
But here's the best part, she writes:
"Update: KIRO TV covered the event. Watch for the unhinged lib who tries to disrupt the peaceful protest with a Nazi salute."
Interesting, isn't it? A Nazi salute = unhinged. What would that make the writer herself, posing for photographs with a Nazi symbol?
Michelle is nothing if not laugh-out-loud funny in her inconsistencies, you gotta admit that much. :-)
And if this was Michael Moore the librul media would be blaring this image on T.V. every 20 minutes accompanied with breathless commentary and fake outrage from every rightie in the country. Hypocrites.
In fact, native americans used both right handed & left handed swastikas, but it was not a meaningful symbol. It is a pattern common to weaving, esp. baskets, so it is little wonder it was used as a decorating motif.
Hinduism, Buddhism & Jainism all use the swastika as a meaningful religious symbol. Whether it was right handed or left handed impacted its meaning.
On Japanese maps today, you'll find Buddhist temples marked with a left handed swastika.
The right handed Nazi swastika was a Christian symbol, the hooked cross, that had been used as Christian regalia for well over a millinea prior to the Nazi appropriation of the symbol.