The Latest Desperate Smear Of Occupy Wall Street Protests: The Nazis Like Them
October 18, 2011 1:49 am ET by Todd Gregory
The American Nazi Party put out a statement on Thursday that was supportive of the Occupy Wall Street protests. Rocky Suhayda, the party's chairman, said, "My heart is right there with these people."
The right-wing blogosphere saw an opportunity to associate the protests with Nazis, and the pile-on began. The Blaze quoted the statement, as did Fox Nation and Gateway Pundit blogger Jim Hoft.
On the Monday edition of Fox News' flagship "straight news" program Special Report, anchor Bret Baier also treated this endorsement as if it were significant:
Interesting fact about Suhayda: During the 2008 presidential campaign, he declared his preference for Barack Obama over John McCain.
In a June 2008 piece, Esquire magazine interviewed Suhayda along with three other white supremacists -- and three of the four preferred Obama. Esquire also interviewed a black nationalist who chose McCain.
Similarly, an Al Qaeda affiliate expressed its hope that George W. Bush would win re-election in 2004, and an Al Qaeda website offered its support for McCain in 2008.
So, does this mean that Obama is just like the Nazis, or that Bush shares Al Qaeda's goals, or that McCain is a black nationalist?
Of course not. These are all ridiculous associations to make. Fringe groups make provocative comments like this all the time, often in the interest of attracting publicity.
The right-wing media's promotion of Suhayda's statement reveals an agenda that is dead-set on delegitimizing the message of the protests, to the extent that they're willing to employ comically flimsy logic in an attempt to do so.
Reminder: If a Nazi says something nice about you, that doesn't make you a Nazi.

















I'm not saying that FOX News is like the Nazi movement (I'm seriously not, because, well, it's not), I'm merely pointing out some similarities/coincidences. You know what Hitler liked? A massive propaganda ministry... one that, say, controlled media until it was the most powerful force and it slowly marginalized all other political views out of existence.
Thus, per your logic, since Nazis liked Hitler, viewers of the most misleading news-- FOX viewers-- like Hitler.
That's how clueless a stretch of an insult you're trying to make is.
I dont even know who you were trying to make a joke at, just wanted to explain why the reception can be suddenly negative. Its hard to tell if someones joking unless they use excessive emoticons.
Before the start of WW2 the Nazi party, and the Facists led by Mussolini both signed recognition and co-operation treaties with the Roman Catholic Church. Both Hitler and Mussolini lauded these treaties as signs that their Facist politcal ideology was legtimate.
After the end of WW2 the Catholic Church of Rome was implicated in facilitating the escape of Nazi war criminals to S America.
QED ALL CATHOLICS ARE NAZIS!
Oswald Moseley was a facist. He was, before WW2, the leader of a popular political movement in the UK.
QED ALL BRITS ARE NAZIS!
I love the autobahns in Germany. Great roads. The Nazis built the autobahns....
I'M A NAZI! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!!!
Wir fahr'n fahr'n fahr'n auf der Autobahn
fahr'n fahr'n fahr'n auf der Autobahn
Exactly, but bigots are never able to see it. Like the birthers, and people who went along with every thug / Idiot / Muslim / Kenyan smear about the president, but were ready to cry " Race Card!" at the drop of a hat.
Then, if somebody else offered a specific criticism of something Michael Steele said or did, they'd ask " Do I get to call you a racist now ?"
Now they're pretending that these protests against very real problems with our screwed up banking institutions are the same as their Grandpa keeping money in his mattress , out of reach of the "money lenders".
Ok, give me thumbs down now. I am ready.
If the Nazis said they agreed with the TeaBaggers, I wouldn't blame the Baggers for that. I'd blame the Baggers for their apparent acceptance of racist signs at their rallies (read above: with peer pressure, a crowd can make such signs disappear), and especially for their inviting racists to speak at some of their events. If OWS invited Nazis (or, worse, Yankees fans) to speak at their rallies, I'd want nothing to do with the group.
See how this works? It's like logic. "If A, then B" does not mean "If B, then A."
Instead of addressing "things like this in our side," we should safely ignore them--because we liberals have no control over what nutcase racists like Nazis do.
Instead of saying that we should somehow give the Nazis some credence, it would be reasonable to say that we should not demonize the Right over the "support" that some groups, which they clearly disavow, offer them. That kind of illogical guilt-by-association game is unworthy of us, and we should set an example for our logic-challenged opponents.
Im trying to think of what would be the hardest link to do but I don't know my American History sorry.
Maybe Nazi's to Jesus in six steps altogether?
QED.
I'd love to see an interview with Bret, BO or some other big name at FOX NEWS where they are confronted with a list of 50 or so golden oldie idiocies like this and ask them how they manage to sleep at night knowing they are participating in the hateful propaganda machine that was designed, built and maintained by Roger Ailes.
How much did Rove and Murderdoch pay for the Nazi statement?
Fox: Yes, it is obvious that all three of these are indications, but only the first one must be true because that one follows our prejudices.