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| 2004-01-20 |
| Click the link for the video. Careful now. Prolonged exposure to this kind of insanity has been shown to turn your brain to mush. On January 15th, New Yorkers awoke to single-digit temperatures and a few inches of new snowfall. Al Gore chose the day to give a speech on global warming. The speech--delivered at the Beacon Theatre on Manhattan’s Upper West Side--was sponsored by MoveOn.org, a website-turned-political-action-committee that recently gained notoriety by hosting two political ads equating President Bush with Adolf Hitler. Although such comparisons were common at anti-war rallies, I still wasn’t sure whether this mindset was now infecting the Democratic base--the sort of folks who’d brave the cold to hear Al Gore speak. To find out, I spent a few shivering hours outside the Beacon. |
| Posted by:Daniel King |
| #8 Not to mention that IIRC, only 2 out of about 400 (I think) hosted ads made this Hitler comparison? And MoveOn wasn't actually sponsoring them, nor were they shortlisted or anything? But do go here: http://www.bushin30seconds.org/ and check out the videoclip named "What are we teaching our children?" -- it's amazingly hilarious, even if you disagree politically with it. |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2004-1-20 10:55:46 PM |
| #7 It should be noted that however hyperbolic, comparisons to Hitler and fascism are not unknown in the American political debate. Rush Limbaugh has routinely called women's rights advocates "femi-Nazis," and references to "Hitlery Clinton" are a staple of right-wing talk radio. Republican power-broker Grover Norquist on NPR (10/2/03) compared inheritance taxes to the Holocaust. Closer to home for Fox News, on the very same day that Gibson, Hannity and O'Reilly were talking about the Hitler/Bush comparison as evidence of the left's extremism, a column ran in the New York Post that described Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean as a follower of Josef Goebbels, referred to him as "Herr Howie," accused him of "looking for his Leni Riefenstahl," called his supporters "the Internet Gestapo" and compared them to "Hitler's brownshirts." |
| Posted by: JoeDoe 2004-1-20 10:41:44 PM |
| #6 "stupid" "narrow-minded" "extermination" "most dangerous president in history" "coup d'etat" "chauvinistic" "Hitler" "Hitler" "Hitler" "he should stop playing on people's fears and start playing on something more positive..." Doublethink, Orwell come to life. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-1-20 10:01:20 PM |
| #5 Picture the Hose's arm and hand held aloft waving an ignited lighter back and forth. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-1-20 8:45:03 PM |
| #4 Iowa (Idiots Out Wandering Around) In case you didn't know, Iowahawk isn't an idiot. |
| Posted by: Charles 2004-1-20 8:08:17 PM |
| #3 /sarcasm Whut? You talkin to me? You are a F****in 'tard. Revere girls love the beach because it is so close to the ocean. /sarcsm These people need help. Seriously. Time to break out that "Dean People Suck" T-Shirt. |
| Posted by: Angry Federalist 2004-1-20 7:04:49 PM |
| #2 ...and in Revere, we have Sal and Vinnie in their Camaro IROC (Italian Retards Out Crusing). |
| Posted by: Raj 2004-1-20 6:39:13 PM |
| #1 And the looniest of them all had on tee shirts for Dennis Kucin.. You know that guy who was also running in Iowa (Idiots Out Wandering Around) |
| Posted by: Cheddarhead 2004-1-20 5:50:48 PM |