Fox News celebrates more Nazi rhetoric. When will The National Review complain?
August 25, 2009 10:14 am ET by Eric Boehlert
As I've noted before, during the Bush years, the vigilant National Review was on high alert for any administration critics who played the Nazi or Hitler or swastika card. For The National Review, that kind of rhetoric was just completely out of bounds and only highlighted how deranged Bush's liberal critics had become. (i.e. Nazi's? Who says that kind of stuff?)
But my how things have changed. These days, Fox News and Rush Limbaugh--two sources The National Review now looks to for moral guidance--regularly spew Nazi and Hitler nonsense, and formerly serious conservative writers know not to say a word. They know it's considered bad form to contradict anything said on Fox News or Limbaugh's hate program. So even though The National Review made it a point to call out anyone who engaged in Nazi and Hitler rhetoric while Bush was president, the magazine today meekly turns away while the conservative movement wallows in the stuff.
If by any chance, editors at National Review regain their moral compass, they might want to scold Fox News for Monday having on a health care mini-mob member who (surprise!) got famous for unfurling a fact-free rant in front of a Congressman. The key part of the rant? That Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is a Nazi. (BTW, did you know Nazi's were "leftists?" And who says the mini-mobs can't educate the masses?)
Never mind. Fox News loves the guy and made sure to play the part of this rant where he smeared Pelosi as a Nazi. (She has a swastika on her sleeve!) I'm sure The National Review is deeply troubled....
If its Racist it Leads.
The Swastika is our Friend.
Is all this the new Fox News Trend?
Speak truth to power.
Mr. News
You do remember MoveOn's newspaper ad on a certain (still employed) General and the outrage over it?
No way the use of nazi would have been overlooked in any instance.
Hitler only used the term socialism in 'national socialism', because he believed the ideology was right-wing and totally opposed to marxism:
1. 'NATIONAL' AND 'SOCIAL' ARE TWO IDENTICAL CONCEPTIONS. It was only the Jew who succeeded, through falsifying the social idea and turning it into Marxism, not only in divorcing the social idea from the national, but in actually representing them as utterly contradictory. That aim he has in fact achieved. At the founding of this Movement we formed the decision that we would give expression to this idea of ours of the identity of the two conceptions: despite all warnings, on the basis of what we had come to believe, on the basis of the sincerity of our will, we christened it ''National Socialist.' - Munich speech, April 12th, 1922
Hitler and the Nazis despised ALL politics on the left. They were bankrolled by major german industrialists and supported by the right-wing, anti-union, anti-semitic Henry Ford.