Are Jonah Goldberg and Andrew Breitbart still denying tea party swastikas?
September 15, 2009 3:10 pm ET by Eric Boehlert
Just curious.
Because you'll recall when Rep. Nancy Pelosi mentioned that some health care mini-mob members this summer were showing up with Swastikas and other Nazi symbols, both Breitbart and Goldberg instantly branded Pelosi a liar. There was no way right-wing activists would ever be spotted brandishing that kind of Hitler nonsense.
Indeed, conservatives journalists themselves spent an awful lot of time during the Bush years condemning any liberal activists who dared bring out the Bush-is-a-Nazi charge. (Very fringy and non-serious.) But now the tea party movement seems to be drowning in the unhinged Nazi stuff, pundits like Breitbart and Goldberg, instead of condemning the idiocy, chose instead to deny it.
That was in August. If any doubt remained about the right-wing's suddenly love of all-things Nazi, the tea party rally in Washington, D.C., this weekend, as well as corresponding ones around the country, probably put that 'debate' to rest.
I'm sure with enough time, they'll get around to that argument.
On the whole I've had a good time at it. I've been impressed by many kids going though their timultious years. They comunicate between themselves much more easily than my peers or I did, at that age.
Theres a few who think they are hard cases. Generally they have no idea of what that really means.
I've seen your mosquito kids too, the boundries of behavior fuzz up when they distract. Its often a show with themselves as the star. One I had to separate from the baseball bat he'd just finished in shop class.
Your assessment of the hard cases is correct as far as I've seen
Respect to you for doing it. The stresses of teaching in our public schools are unknown to most of the population. The group I've come into contact all seem like worthy caring professionals.
I'd like to try for a paying art instruction gig at some point. People I've known who do it outside the school system say the personality types extend into adult art classes.
I'm with the one woman in the video who's in favor of the government getting out of everything, especially the teabagger's Social Security and Medicaid. I see no reason to force people to keep collecting their benefits.
I guess if we disband the Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force, shut down all of the libraries and National parks, let all of the roads go to rubble, get rid of the cops and fireman, the schools and teachers, etc., she'll head right out and get a nice policy to make sure she has a nice long, healthy life in her new Utopia.
Answer: yes, of course they are
I have an image from Procter and Bergmans "J Men Forever" in my head. Got Nazi's and torture and kinky tailorring and one of the heros being whipped by a classic thug whose singing out "Hitler again! Harder! Harder!" As he puts in a good days work.
Where did I go wrong?
I'll say it only one more time.
NO ONE should be compared to the Nazis or Hitler. Not Bush. Not Obama. Not Cheney. Not Pelosi. NO ONE.