Rush Limbaugh's obsession with Nazi comparisons
August 07, 2009 3:26 pm ET by Media Matters staff
Over the past day, Rush Limbaugh has repeatedly compared the Nazi logo to President Obama's health care logo and has discussed the "similarities" between the Nazis and the Democratic Party.
Limbaugh's website currently features the following images, which alternately fade into each other:
And here are his recent comments:
August 6: Limbaugh discusses "the similarities between the Democrat Party of today and the Nazi Party in Germany"
August 6: Limbaugh: "Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate"
August 6: Limbaugh: "[T]he Obama health care logo is damn close to a Nazi swastika logo"
Funny, really, because the Nazis were conservatives, which is also the group Rush preaches to. Perhaps they're self-hating Nazis, and that's why they're so eager to believe this particular smear about our President.
typical. immaturity, childishness, self obsessed and selfishness is what conservatism is all about
Nazis are conservative, just like fascists. Check your history, in case you are not aware of this obvious fact. Dictatorship, thought crimes, ethnic division (wearing yellow stars sound at all familiar?), and torture are all things we fought WW 2 against.
If you are going to indulge in the childish game of name-calling rather than discourse, Cheney2012, make sure that you apply names appropriately. Mr. Limbaugh is brought to mind, who was asking where the 'liberal fascist libertarians' were when speaking about President Obama asking that his administration be notified of misinformation (such as what you are spouting here) about health coverage reform. He ignores or is unaware of the definition of each of these words, otherwise he would never have strung them together in this thoughtless and foolish way.
You may jump up and down and shout "Nazi!" all you like, Cheney2012. Just because you say something is so, does not make it so, no matter how much or how loud you say it, and no matter how fervently you believe it.
But I think we should be equally careful of not making the same mistake as Limbaugh and equating Nazism with conservatism - and this is coming from someone who is a solid democrat voter.
Nazis were traditionalists in some respects, especially when it came to family and gender divisions. But, their aim was not solely to turn back the clock and re-create some mythical past. In other words, I am not sure one can easily place Nazism on today's political spectrum.
Is there any proof (video or pictures) of swastikas at these Town Hall meetings? I'm pretty sure this has been debunked other than some rumor at the Kos. I'm not saying that over this vast land it didn't happen, but I haven't seen any evidence that it has or is happening in droves as Granny Pelosi suggests.
Please post some links if you have any because I can't seem to find any on The Google other one pic of a lady with a swastika with a circle and a line through it as in "no nazi".
Now I get to put my tin-foil hat on. How many dem plants will now go to the TW's with swastika signs? You know, so they can gin up some controversy?
they compare anyone they don't agree with or like to Hitler or the SS or the Nazis in general, on and on and on.
It grows tiresome.
My mother was a little girl in France when the Nazis came. I've heard stories about them from her. To this day, she will hear the bombers, with the heavy engines, flying overhead. It just comes out of nowhere and for just a second.
There is no excuse for the conservatives to over use this era and take away the horrific events of then. But, they cheapen it by using it for their political sport.
Conservatives tend to use as their ideology the very thinking and saying of children, reasoning like children and using fear and Nazis to the point of overkill in their need to manipulate.
The authoritarian seeking base may lap it up but, the rest of the country is sick of it.
Demorats compare Bush/Chaney to Hitler
All this cretin does is divide the country along the party lines, his drivel is only of interest those too stupid to read or research for themselves.
Greedopaths (Greedy Psychopaths) rule the USA and the partyline lemmings like Lush are way too stupid to figure it out.
While Greedopath mouthpieces like Lush keep the fighting amongst the moronic party liners going the puppetmasters play the country like Nero played the fiddle.
The Nazi symbol is actually a right facing swastika which is tilted 45 degrees on it's side. Because the Nazi's used the right facing swastika in a perverse way, most buddhists now use the left facing swastika exclusively. Apparently it is an extremely positive symbol as well. Depending on who is using it it represents such things as "the evolution of the universe" and "peace and harmony".
Nazism is often considered by scholars to be a form of fascism. While it incorporated elements from both left and right-wing politics, the Nazis formed most of their alliances on the right.
Truth hurts doesn't it Rush??