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Home Front: Politix
Repubublicans just like Nazis, says Newsday's Pearson
2004-09-06
Prime-time Republicans are hard to take
Damn right! They should be resettled in the East!
BY HUGH PEARSON
Hugh Pearson is currently working on a biography of James Weldon Johnson and is a publisher of the Web site, NYAge.Net.
September 2, 2004
As I watched Tuesday night's network coverage of the unrelenting political propaganda hour known as the Republican National Convention, the first thought that came to mind was of old newsreels of those self-congratulatory Nazi rallies held in Germany during the reign of Adolf Hitler.
A political convention propagandizing for the party that holds it? Oh, the horror!
That's okay. First thing that came to mind when I was watching the Dem convention was Gilligan's Island. Only without Gilligan. And the Professor. And Maryanne. And the Skipper. And... ummm... the Tina Louise character. I forget her name...
For many people, I'm sure, such a comparison sounds extreme.
You wish. To me, it just sounds like more proof that the media left is out of ideas.
Sounds kinda overworked, I'd say...
Yet, just as the Nazis were obsessed with endless displays of swastikas, the Republicans are obsessed with the red, white and blue (for that matter, the Democrats are, too).
So, are the Dems also Nazis?
Or do political parties tend to flaunt their symbols when they're having conventions and rallies and things? I notice there was no mention of the red flags flying over Red Square for about 75 May Days...
In the same manner that the German people were told that Nazi leadership was faultless, the Republicans are telling the American public that no one knows what's best for the world except the current leadership in the White House.
"They did not really say that but, I, the infallible clairvoyant authority will interpret and clarify their words for you peasants."
It's always been my understanding that when you become a politician you spend half your time pointing with pride, the other half viewing with alarm, all the while kissing babies and shaking hands with people you'll never see again...
Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy

#10  A6336 - MIND READER of many!
Posted by: BigEd   2004-09-06 6:32:08 PM  

#9  Hitler had 2 legs , 2 eyes and 5 fingers his hands like Bush!!!!That explains all. Journalists are so smart.
Posted by: Anonymous6336   2004-09-06 6:28:05 PM  

#8  Where is all this equivocation coming from? If I remember correctly, didn't Hitler want a master race and intended on cleansing the earth of all those not Aryan? I don't think that was a war on terror intent on making the world safer. Seems like I read something like that growing up. I could be wrong, of course. Oh wait, my bad. That's right: The Holocaust never happened. The Jews made the whole thing up. The concentration camps were staged. What was I thinking? Of course, the republicans are Nazis. It's so clear!

(Please read as all sarcasm. I'm losing patience for these reporters. I'd love to know what kind of education and experience they've encountered in their lives to give them these ridiculous and arrogant views.)
Posted by: nada   2004-09-06 4:37:22 PM  

#7  Nice job AC. I particularly liked his reference to the creative use of light, like Speer at Nuremburg, in the candlelight ceremony in memory of 9/11.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis   2004-09-06 4:30:47 PM  

#6  Hitler launched a preemptive war? I guess the Poles were ready to invade first... Maybe when compared to Stalin, but the Nazi's had been knee deep in war against (Czechs, Austria, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg, France and bombing England and perhaps Greece and Yugoslavia before it was the Russians turn so premptive doesn't really work in any case.

This guy needs to look up premptive, it means you want to prempt something, not just going first.
Posted by: RJ Schwarz   2004-09-06 4:26:07 PM  

#5  Nice fisking.
Posted by: OldSpook   2004-09-06 3:49:13 PM  

#4  Yadda, yadda, yadda....

*Yawn*

Useless, boring, unimaginative wanker.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2004-09-06 3:27:51 PM  

#3  I wished Mr Pearson had ANY idea what he's talking about.
Posted by: True German Ally   2004-09-06 3:22:33 PM  

#2  So whats new here? The Right are NAZIs while the left sees anti-semitism and terrorism as virtue. We knew that.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2004-09-06 3:14:13 PM  

#1  Besides all that, I call Pearson a girly-man and challenge him to a duel.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2004-09-06 3:08:20 PM  

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