Calling Bismarck a "lefty," Limbaugh asserts government-run health care laid groundwork for Nazis
August 10, 2009 1:19 pm ET
From the August 10 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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Hey, you know you -just- got done saying that Nancy Pelosi started this whole 'calling people Nazis' thing, and you were wrong about that, weren't you? It was -you- who started it, on July 23rd:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907230023
I submit that continuing to compare health coverage reform with Nazi Germany could lead to unintended consequences. Not because I think you'll stop, but because I don't wish for you to be able to say, "But, nobody told me!"
I mean, let's see. The UK has government run health care. Canada too. As well as Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Germany, and other countries around the world. Funny thing is, none of those turned into dictatorships and all. I mean, what exactly are you scared of Rush? People actually being able to be healthy? And see doctors?
Also with the Bismarck Weimar connection Limbaugh is reffering to
Bismarck was removed as Chancellor in 1890. He was dead by 1898.
The Weimar Republic did not come into being until 1918, twenty years later, 28 years after Bismarck left office. This would be like blaiming the current political problems in this country on Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
I think Rush you might have gotten confused about who Bismarck is, as I think you might have ment to refer to the Weimar President Paul von Hindenburg, the guy who actually ruled the Weimar Republic and put Hitler in power. Not that it would matter, Hindenburg was also a monarcist and deciedly anti-sociallist and was only convined to appoint Hitler after he went senile.
You could learn all this Rush, if you just bothered to read a history book. But I understand that you cant do that, after all History, like reality, has a Liberal bias.
Also with the Bismarck Weimar connection Limbaugh is reffering to
Bismarck was removed as Chancellor in 1890. He was dead by 1898.
The Weimar Republic did not come into being until 1918, twenty years later, 28 years after Bismarck left office. This would be like blaiming the current political problems in this country on Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
I think Rush you might have gotten confused about who Bismarck is, as I think you might have ment to refer to the Weimar President Paul von Hindenburg, the guy who actually ruled the Weimar Republic and put Hitler in power. Not that it would matter, Hindenburg was also a monarcist and deciedly anti-sociallist and was only convined to appoint Hitler after he went senile.
You could learn all this Rush, if you just bothered to read a history book. But I understand that you cant do that, after all History, like reality, has a Liberal bias.