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Comparing Obama to Hitler on Right-Wing Radio

Anomalos Publishing, a company that puts out conservative and Christian works and describes itself as "created for authors who...have a talent for writing but have not found a publisher," has announced that one of its authors will appear on right winger Michael Savage's nationally syndicated radio show to compare Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler. From the press release:

Nationally-syndicated talk show host Michael Savage is set to interview former German member of the Hitler Youth, Hilmar von Campe this Tuesday, November 18.
The program will focus on similarities, which von Campe sees between the rise of totalitarianism under Hitler and the current social and political trends inside the United States.
"Every day brings this nation closer to a Nazi-style totalitarian abyss," writes von Campe, now a U.S. citizen, and author of "Defeating the Totalitarian Lie: A Former Hitler Youth Warns America."
"Today in America we are witnessing a repeat performance of the tragedy of 1933 when an entire nation let itself be led like a lamb to the Socialist slaughterhouse. This time, the end of freedom is inevitable unless America rises to her mission and destiny."
Hilmar points to events surrounding the election of Barack Hussein Obama as reminiscent of the way the Nazi regime came to power.

Von Campe was one of a bevy of conservative authors who in the weeks before the election whipped up the fear that Obama was the modern-day version of the Nazi dictator. In an October 28 WorldNetDaily column, he wrote, "Socialist Hitler destroyed free society in a few months. Socialist Obama is close to his steppingstone. The following is an attempt to clarify the issue."

Savage, of course, is an over-the-top purveyor of extreme rhetoric. He recently questioned whether welfare recipients should be permitted to vote. Weeks before the election, he proclaimed, "I fear that Obama will stir up a race war...in order to seize absolute power." In July, he created a fuss when he claimed that autism is a "fraud, a racket. ... I'll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out."

And Savage has already shared his bully pulpit with a conservative who has Hitlerized Obama. On his October 8 show, Savage's guest co-host Rick Roberts huffed:

If you look at world history and you look at Germany when Adolf Hitler was not initially but shortly after he first came on the scene and started making his rise to power as a community organizer, and you look at all the people he surround himself -- himself with, and if you look at some of his policies and his guidelines and certain political agendas and even more than that, certain social agendas at the outset, you know, the similarities are staggering between Adolf Hitler and Barack Obama. You know, sorry, that's the way I feel. I can read and I can look and I can compare and contrast and what I see -- the early, early days of Adolf Hitler and the very early days in this presidential campaign of Barack Obama, the similarities are absolutely staggering.

Savage is not breaking new ground by scheduling von Campe as a guest. But it's a signal the say-anything right is not dumping the Obama-as-Hitler argument. Von Campe, according to his publisher, will contend that the recent election is somehow comparable to Hitler's power grab. Will this stuff play even to the GOP base? (Forget about convincing independents with such rhetoric.) This sort of talk, if it becomes widespread in the months and years ahead, is more likely to separate the brimming-with-resentment conservatives from more responsible Republicans--which certainly won't make the GOP's repair job any easier. But politics aside, the continued use of this hysterical rhetoric raises this question: do these agitators who liken the historic 2008 election to Hitler's putsch hate America?






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On this morning's show, Stephanie Miller played a clip of Savage expressing the suspicion Obama killed his grandmother to cover up his foreign birth. He said her death right before the election and right after Obama visited was too convenient. The right is great at turning potentially controversially statements into controversies where the media call on liberals to denounce the comments. Is there some way to make conservatives denounce Savage or explain why they don't?

How is it that you haven't even read Hilmar's book or listened to his logic, which was learned on the ground trying to survive the Nazi experiment, yet you sideline a man who is listed among Cambridges Who's Who of American Intellectuals!? Isn't it possible that he may be right? Your's is the blind rhetoric dumbing-down a generation of lemmings.

Wait a minute, Hitler was a Socialist, not a Fascist?

Hitler's "rise to power" was an appointment by the Chancellor, he was never elected.

Nice how the bastard uses "community organizer" when describing Hitler. How convenient his hyperbole becomes when a Democrat is elected president.

Reality is bitter - the comparison between Hitler and President Bush is obvious in the invasion of an undefended nation (which had not attacked the U.S.) to grab it's natural resources, the second largest resource on the planet, is the very definition of a corporate terrorist dictatorship. Otherwise known as the Nazi Party.

Posted by: Patriot on 11/17/08 at 10:19 AM  Respond

Why is America so much like Germany when the Nazis came to power? Because Bush and his buds on right wing talk networks paved the way for former Hitler Youths to scare people into doing things their way. So who's the lemming here?

Posted by: smitisan on 11/17/08 at 10:20 AM  Respond

This is precious. Let them keep going on and on. I'll give them a megaphone. I hope that everyone hears what these people have to say because it exposes them for the frauds they are.

Keep it up Mike!!!

Posted by: kirkbrew on 11/17/08 at 10:49 AM  Respond

Dwight Eisenhower had no doubts on the matter: "Pre-emptive war was invented by Adolf Hitler. To be perfectly honest, I wouldn't take anyone who came up with such a thing seriously".

Posted by: Patriot on 11/17/08 at 11:00 AM  Respond

Well, the gent is obviously a couple of boots short of a goose step.

Hitler was a fascist, not a socialist. Yes, I KNOW that the translation of the acronym "NAZI" includes the word "socialist". But the NAZI party was not socialist. You can have your own opinions but you can't have your own facts.

I actually AM a socialist and have been for decades. I find this chatter amusing and particularly so since half the people in the US have no idea whatsoever who Hitler and the NAZI party were. But that's the topic for another thread.

-Wexler

I'm heartened by this. How better to loose what little credibility one may have than by comparing the President-elect to Hitler?

God bless America and its fanatical commitment to free speech - sunlight really is the best disinfectant.

Posted by: alex on 11/17/08 at 11:58 AM  Respond

Well, as long a Savage Weiner isn't just promoting hyperbole. . . .

Please - I hope the looney Reich-wingnuttia manages to make their specific brand of insanity obsolete.

We are in a new age - even Hitler references are dying out. Kind of like the Hoover, Wilson and even some Kennedy references.

Living in the past is passe'

Posted by: capt on 11/17/08 at 11:59 AM  Respond

So let's recap:
Obama says we all need to do our part and "sacrifice" financially and socially to get out of the mess we have all contributed to creating, and that we all need to work together to do this. He is of a mixed background, an ethnic minority, working with jews and others in his administration. He is preaching acceptance and listening to ideas of other people, and to speak to leaders of all stripes world wide, in that we may learn from them.

This is somehow similar to Adolf Hitler, who argued that Germany would be great if it wasn't for those darn minorities, that Germany had little to learn from anyone else, and that racial purity is the ideal to which all should try and adhere.

And these two men and movements are similar because...?

I know, I'm giving more credence to the argument than it deserves, but this is getting ridiculous. Obama can and should be criticized for a whole lot of things, but saying he is comparable to Nazis isn't criticism, that's just insanity.

Not that anything else should be expected by the Savage Wiener.

Posted by: fawltylogic on 11/17/08 at 1:19 PM  Respond

I would liken the far right to the Salem Witch Trials or to the Spanish Inquisition looking for heretics. There is no rational base -- it is fear and what I call "magical religious hysterianism". Probably an acute fear reaction to change and loss of control mixed with deep reptilian territoriality. If they stay riled up, they will soon turn on each other.

Posted by: Elie on 11/17/08 at 1:20 PM  Respond

This is from the linked article:

"In a specific example, von Campe takes strong issue with Obama's position that America after World War II became similar to Nazi Germany because the Supreme Court has not established wealth distribution as a constitutional guideline."

Since Obama has never expressed an opinion even remotely close to that, I think we can assume that the rest of the "logic" we're missing here is equally full of lies and straw men.

Posted by: fawltylogic on 11/17/08 at 1:24 PM  Respond

Elie's right, there's no rational response that can work. It doesn't matter how clearly we communicate that Obama isn't like Hitler. There are some people we can't reach, but merely stop them from getting through security. The political target has to be the enablers on the right who treat Savage like someone respectable. We have to make them comment on his comments, just like the right was able to get the media to make every Democrat comment on MoveOn's Petreus ad.

The funny thing is that when you look at the views espoused by Michael Savage, those are almost verbatim the opinions of Adolf Hitler (well, except for the hate towards jews). His opinions about the disabled, the poor, immigrants, race, culture, liberals, his desire to always blame minorities and liberals for the nation's problems are taken pretty much directly from the Hitler playbook.

That's what makes it extra laughable when he makes these Nazi comparisons.

Posted by: fawltylogic on 11/17/08 at 1:40 PM  Respond

Far from denouncing this rhetoric one of our conservative Georgia legislators is spewing it as his own.

Posted by: Jim on 11/17/08 at 2:10 PM  Respond

Can't cure stupid.

Posted by: Phil on 11/17/08 at 3:18 PM  Respond

Savage et al. are playing a dangerous game here. As fawltylogic has already done, others may begin to draw comparisons between NAZI ideology and GOP ideology. That won't win them too many American supporters.

Couple this with increased reports of racial & political violence, and people may begin comparing right-wing hate radio to, say, Rwandan hate radio.

Incitement to commit violence, especially hate or political crimes, is something Savage would be well advised to steer clear of.

Posted by: sal on 11/17/08 at 4:26 PM  Respond

Too bad he isn't going to be forced to defend his thesis. He'll just be given a chance to spout his illogical argument without any real debate. Savage wants his listeners to believe that someone who lived through Nazi Germany is, by default, an expert on totalitarianism.

I wish the intelligent Republicans would write off 2012 and just spend the next 8 years outing Republican and conservative demagogues for their empty arguments.

Posted by: Tobias on 11/17/08 at 4:43 PM  Respond

I'll be sure to miss that "waste of time" and all of MS's future broadcasts. He must be at a complete loss for material.

Posted by: mbah on 11/17/08 at 8:21 PM  Respond

Well, just do the math on this subject of the publisher and Right-wing Hate Radio: Conservative + Christian = Republican Lies, Slander, Cheating, Bigotry, Hypocrisy, Discrimination.

Posted by: Joanaroo on 11/17/08 at 9:47 PM  Respond

Dubya was appointed to the presidency and not elected, just like Hitler!

The parallels with the rise of the Nazis are accurate, but with Dubya/dick as Hitler, noat with Obama.

At this point, we literally are only one law away from becoming just like Nazi Germany. Thanks to Dubya/dick, not to Obama.

Just because Obama is president elect, that does not mean Dubya/dick will allow him to be sworn in.

Tune in Thursday when my guest Kevin Trudeau discusses his theory that Barack Hussein Obama is the "they" who doesn't want you to know about natural cures.

Posted by: Michael Wiener on 11/17/08 at 11:30 PM  Respond

This really is a case of seeing in the "enemy" what you yourself are. All right wingers appear terrified, in varying degrees, that Obama will smash them/take away their money and toys/turn the country into Naziland. Sound like something they might do, maybe? They are afraid of their own shadow. That's one big reason why, by the way, Obama's strategy of reaching out to opposers during the transition is flat out brilliant.

Posted by: Tim on 11/17/08 at 11:44 PM  Respond

I do see a relationship between Obama and Hitler-they were both men! Incidentally, whoever is making the comparison is very lucky that Hitler is no longer in power-Hitler was a "White" Supremicist and didn't like "Blacks!" He really didn't like Jesse Owens!And Hitler was not ever considered to be a "Liberal!"

Posted by: Mr. Independent on 11/18/08 at 3:50 AM  Respond

Right Wingers are the rich elite in this country that screwed over America's economy to begin with by not taking thier tax breaks and putting it back into thier employees, and businesses like they should have. They instead pocketed thier tax breaks and sent jobs overseas which attributed to the economic crisis.

Obama is going to make them pay for it not the middle and lower class. This is why they hate him. He knows they are the ones to blame for it and since they have no excuse in thier bag they can pull out to justify them not getting heavily taxed they are resorting to petty name calling. Pathetic.

Posted by: Fred on 11/18/08 at 3:51 AM  Respond

Next thing you know Obama will start trying to classify Americans as "real Americans" and "freedom hating fake Americans" like Hitler did with the Jews labeling them as not being real Germans.

Then Obama will pass a law infringing on our civil rights then give it a flashy name like "Patriot Act" so any opponents will be labled and "unpatriotic" in order to stifle any debate.

Then Obama will pre-emptively invade a country under the guise of "liberating the people" like Hitler did with the Sudetenland.

Wait, what? You mean this happened and the people who are accusing Obama of being "like Hitler" turned a blind eye and/or vocally supported it. Could it be possible these people are partisan hacks with no basis in reality?

I also can see the similarities between Obama's "community organizing" to bring better education to impoverished youths and Hitler's to exterminate an entire religion. I mean you have to "organize" people in order to do both, eerie huh?

Posted by: Toy Gunn on 11/18/08 at 5:38 AM  Respond

Seriously what the f*** is wrong with your country? Is this was passes for intelligent debate in conservative America? Either that or somehow sensationalist agitators seem to get a hugely disproportionate amount of airtime. Either way get a grip. Anyone who seriously thinks that Obama can be compared to Stalin or Hitler, or be called a Marxist or Fascist is so completely out to lunch and ignorant of history that they the presumably mid-way intelligent people who bring their crazya$$ views to a wider audience need to do that audience a favor and cut themselves out of the airwaves. Free and intelligent debate is no longer the American way, it's debasing every single worthwhile conversation your country needs to have by legitimating the opinions of fringe sects and crackpots because everyone's opinion is supposedly inherently valid in a free society and THAT is far more reminiscent of Germany in the 20s, in spit of Obama. This article in particular is an example of what happens when people's sense of entitlement to say and do whatever they want has grown faster than their brains' have.

Posted by: np on 11/18/08 at 5:55 AM  Respond

Hitler? How about this? In an episode that could potentially strain relations between Warsaw and Washington, Radek Sikorski, an Oxford-educated politician who has lived in the US, was reported to have made the jibe by an opposition politician, Ryszard Czarnecki.

Writing in his blog, Mr Czarnecki, an MEP, quoted the foreign minister as saying: "Have you heard that Obama may have a Polish connection? His grandfather ate a Polish missionary."

We see that in Europe(not France though), the highly educated are racists.

Posted by: John on 11/18/08 at 6:34 AM  Respond

Donna, what on earth are you going on about?

Posted by: Mikey on 11/18/08 at 7:04 AM  Respond

LOL... I say we do what a great conservative, P.J. O'rourke, suggested we should do with the loonies. Curse them with over-exposure. Seriously, hang on there every word, and play them all over the place; TV, radio, internet, etc. Make sure that everybody in the country has heard what they have to say, and before you can say "Third Eye Blind", even there most ardent fans will be rolling their eyes and changing the channel. Nothing sends you to the oblivion of irrelevancy faster then mass media exposure.

Posted by: Josh Curll on 11/18/08 at 8:17 AM  Respond

Ironically, some of these very persons who project fascist tendencies on to the Dems and Dem incumbents are some of the very same persons most receptive to authoritarian government.

I've seen data that suggest that as much as 40% of almost any population would be happy under authoritarian government. One major appeal to the type is the chance to rat out your neighbors for behavior seen as disloyal to the state.

Most French resistance members in WW2 were not found by Gestapo detective work. They were turned in by informers for 30 pieces of silver or for a few francs.

Imagine how one can support the depredations upon our Constitution by the Bushies and still talk about impending fascism under the Dems. Doesn't compute.


Posted by: Gilrod on 11/18/08 at 9:29 AM  Respond

A person usually sees himself/herself in others!!!

Posted by: Viswakarma on 11/18/08 at 12:40 PM  Respond

You lefties are so ridiculous.

It's as if you have no idea that you compared Bush to Hitler, and are still doing it.

It's like the last 8 years never happened.

You guys picked your own pretty GW Bush doll, Barry, and are going to have to deal with people pointing this out.

Former cokehead and drunk, no resume, bad with big words (Massatoosits), murky history, media manipulation, durrounded by lackeys and shady characters, a religious loon...

I could go on and on friends and comrades...

Posted by: Senator E. Buzz Miller, PhD on 11/18/08 at 4:49 PM  Respond

Bush is hitler

Posted by: Open-Minded Freethinker on 11/18/08 at 5:02 PM  Respond

Speaking of credibility, Mother Jones has done some injury to its own cred with this story.

That's AdolF Hitler with an F. "Adolph" is the American spelling. Germans use F.

And of course you can compare Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler. You can also compare Mother Theresa to Stalin. You can (as George Carlin once did in one of his routines) compare an apple to an orange. You can compare anything to anything else.

I wish to hell people would look up the meaning of the word "compare" in the dictionary.

Paralells with the third Reich?
Hitler came to power in 1933 in a contested election after a terrorist incident-the burning of the Reichstag. Using this pretext to suspend civil liberties and to establish rule by executive order, and dispose of his political enemies-Communist & socialists primarily but bsically anyone who opposed the Nazis. I can't pronounce the title of the party in German for which NAZI is an acronym for but in english it is National SOCIALIST German Worker's Party.Neocon morons and senile members of the Hitler youth should peddle revisionist history somewhere else. Sounds much more like Bush than Obama doesn't it?

Bush Hitler

Google it, tool. The left has forfeited its right to feigned indignation.

Posted by: Blacksheep on 11/18/08 at 6:19 PM  Respond

So, 8 years of comparing Bush to Hitler. Was it acceptable to all you caterwauling guys, or not? I don't remember a single lefty say the word Bush in a sentence that did not also contain the word Hitler.

Posted by: Trudeau on 11/18/08 at 6:40 PM  Respond

David, you broke the news black out on Michael Savage(aka Wiener ), the Zionist. Shame on you.

Posted by: PC Police on 11/18/08 at 6:57 PM  Respond

Lefties calling Bush Hitler for eight years = good.

Righties not actually calling Obama Hitler (though referring to Hitler and Obama) = Bad

Perhaps this whole article is some weird bit of satire? The last sentence seems to allude to it: "But politics aside, the continued use of this hysterical rhetoric raises this question: do these agitators who liken the historic 2008 election to Hitler's putsch hate America?"

Couldn't the same thing be said of the Left over the last eight years?

Posted by: catmman on 11/18/08 at 8:03 PM  Respond

One thing Hitler didn't have was the fawning bias that Obama enjoyed from the MSM. Obama bought this election on empty promises, fraudulent donations
and a completely-in-the-tank media. So it's more like a Stalin thing where Pravda (NYT, CNN, ABC, NBC, LAT, WaPo etc)was the voice of the Party. Anyway, it's hilarious to see the liberal fascists whine about Hitler comparisons when that's the only thing they could say about Bush for 8 years.

Posted by: Davy Jones on 11/18/08 at 11:27 PM  Respond

Corn's comrades on the left have spent the last 8 years incessantly comparing Bush to Hitler at every opportunity. In fact, it happened so regularly that conservatives became bored of the whole topic. Oh, another post comparing Bush to Hitler on a liberal blog? Yawn. Republicans are Nazis? Zzzzzzz. Furthermore, to the best of my recollection, in all that time, I don't remember a single liberal who paid any sort of price at all with his fellow lefties for making that comparison. Maybe it happened, but off the top of my head, I can't think of a single time it did.

But, somebody mentions Obama and Hitler the same way liberals brought up Bush and Hitler (or the Nazis) hundreds of thousands of times over the past eight years and suddenly David Corn is horrified. Well, the world's tiniest violin is playing for you and Obama, buddy

Posted by: steve on 11/19/08 at 5:01 AM  Respond

Um, I know you leftists are not strong on things like facts and recent history so I will help you out; Bush did not 'invade' Iraq. We had been occupying Iraq for over thirteen years because the UN left us hanging after Saddams pretend surrender. Bush began the action that will finally allow us to leave and with honor having freed 50 million people who were suffering under Saddam. Now they have freedom and self governance and we no longer have to defend the Saudis and Kuwait from them. Bush made the moves that will finally allow us out of Iraq. But of course leftism isn't about facts it is about cult of personality and the ad hominem attacks on opponents.

Posted by: Steve on 11/19/08 at 5:10 AM  Respond

Where was Mother Jones during all the "Bushitler" nonsense?

Posted by: William Jockusch on 11/19/08 at 6:49 AM  Respond

Hitler was a NATIONAL SOCIALIST my man!!!! Study history. This is where the term NAZI comes from *NAtioanl SoZIalism - to Germnanize the English words). Mussolini in the 20s was a soacialist, even praised by Lenin. Socialism and Fascism are very close, they are cousins, only their methods and slogans are different, the ens result is the same

Posted by: kuassa on 11/19/08 at 8:23 AM  Respond

ok...let's get this straight here and now: Savage is not a conservative, he is a sensationalist who does not believe most of what he says. He does run a media conglomerate. He does not hold a Professorship. He is not making shockumentary films. He is a kook that entertains the bunker dwellers on the right that live next door to bunker dwellers on the left that listen to Noam Chomsky and Ward Churchill. I'm a conservative, and while I didn't vote for Obama, he is my president, and as long as he does not advocate

Posted by: Barack Goldwater on 11/19/08 at 9:24 AM  Respond

...dismantling the Constitution or the Bill of Rights..

we'll see....so far , it's looking like Clinton's third term, as least by looking at BO's recent cabinet appointments.

Posted by: Barack Goldwater on 11/19/08 at 9:26 AM  Respond

Bush began the action that will finally allow us to leave and with honor having freed 50 million people who were suffering under Saddam.
__________

Hate to burst your bubble Steve, but Iraq's population is only about 27 million. I know the Toy Emperor managed to get a lot of the locals killed over there, but was it really THAT many, or do you not know what you're talking about?

Posted by: David S on 11/19/08 at 9:51 AM  Respond


Bush began the action that will finally allow us to leave and with honor having freed 50 million people who were suffering under Saddam.
__________

Hate to burst your bubble Steve, but Iraq's population is only about 27 million. I know the Toy Emperor managed to get a lot of the locals killed over there, but was it really THAT many, or do you not know what you're talking about?

Posted by: David S on 11/19/08 at 9:51 AM Respond

Quite right David S, that was a slip on Steves part. The 50 million refers to the approximate population of Iraq and Afghanistan. Kind of like Barack saying he had visited 57 states, right?

Posted by: Ed on 11/19/08 at 10:53 AM  Respond

Let's see...

We spend the last 8 years listening to Chimpy BusHitlerBurton!; during the non-stop Democrat and MSM media campaign to regain power...

Even though the Iraq war was undertaken only after Saddam had violated more than 17 different UN edicts associated with the cease fire following the 1991 war; the left declares it an illegal, blood-for-oil(that we never got) war...

Even though all of the measures that Bush has taken since 9/11 have been in the interest of defending our nation and preventing another terrorist attack-and have worked!

And, last I checked, eeeeeeeeeevil Boooooosh! hasn't arbirarily rounded up or even harased any of his political opponents. Unlike Obama, who unleashed his electronic Brownshirts to shout down, in public, over the internet, or by telephone, any person that tried to reveal or even discuss any inconvenient truths from his deliberately clouded and decidedly chequered past...

And, Obama has been helped along the way by a zealous, sycophantic, and obedient MSM; one that covered for his every error, minimized or changed the subject following any embarrasing gaffe or revelation, and were positively complicit it championing his preferred narrative arc and criminally overlooking his mysteriously shrouded and controversial past; not to mention shaping the public discussion to fit his desired talking points. Not to mention the financial, tort lawyer, lobbyist, and industrial money that lined Obama's gilded coffer; backed by the industrialists just like the one in 1933, who's name must not be mentioned...

Give me a break...Your collective hypocrisy is unsurpassed in human history...

All I wanna know is when can I start referring to Obama as Chimperor ObamaHitlerSoros!..?

No really, you're fortunate in that most of the right is too classy to wish harm on their country in the name of an expedient path to political power; unlike the Democrats who were wishing for us to lose in Iraq, wishing for another hurricane disaster during the RNC, and dancing a gleeful jig as Soros and his offshore hedge fund buddies set off the market crash in September by shorting the market hard-like he did ti the bank of England years ago...

Besides, I don't think that Obama is like Hitler anyway...

He's a communist, more like Stalin!

Posted by: Bob on 11/19/08 at 3:05 PM  Respond

Yes, how better to see the utter lack of credibility amongst the President (elect)'s detractors than to watch them compare him to Hitler. Geez, everybody knows only ChimpyMcBushHitler fits that description!!

Posted by: yup on 11/19/08 at 4:11 PM  Respond

Bwahaha -- Bush is only ONE MOVE away from preventing Obama from being sworn in as President. LOL!

Because EVERYONE knows that only ChimpyMcBushHitler is the evil dastardly dictator-in-waiting!

So stop it, you EEEEVVVVIIILLL republicans. Lay off The One. Only you can quit being little Eichmanns. But ChimpyMcBushHitler can never stop being a psychopathic dictator who is trying to exterminate people different from himself.

Posted by: yup on 11/19/08 at 4:15 PM  Respond

"john" observes where:


We see that in Europe (not France though), the highly educated are racists.

It may be worth noting that British Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley was among the ranks of the old blueblood school, right down to an Oxbridge education.

Who is Michael Savage? A noted Zionist who hates Muslims. We are working on getting him off the air.

Posted by: Care on 11/19/08 at 5:56 PM  Respond

My parents were refugees from Hitler's Germany...

This crap doesn't deserve a comment.

Posted by: Josef von Manthei on 11/19/08 at 10:22 PM  Respond

Jeez, people disappoint me sometimes. Particularly when they give space and air time to idiots like this savage, limbaugh, dobbs, hannity, and other. Fuck, read a book instead of paying attention to these dopes. Want to make fun of them? Watch Colbert and Daily Show. Search Colbert for a dobbs segment - THAT's how you treat these airheads. Stop it already with all the back and forth on these guys. Switch the channel, talk with people you know.

Posted by: Ralphie on 11/21/08 at 12:04 PM  Respond

We the people of the united states of america have developed the proper channels to avoid a hitler like president to become dictator. I hope we bring them to use.

Posted by: Dr.Q on 11/21/08 at 12:06 PM  Respond

The insanity of this comparison has already been remarked upon, but I would just add that Bush has been much more credibly compared with Hitler - and other fascists - over the years. Of course, Bush could be considered a socialist too, for nationalizing the banks and even forbidding short-selling for a while. Oh wait, that last one sounds more like Communism; I guess I need reeducation, comrades.

Posted by: Scott Baker on 11/21/08 at 12:17 PM  Respond

After eight years of a moronic neocon administration which has brought us war, torture and dragged our country to the brink of financial collapse it's sad that someone on the right would post a comment like this. Barak has only spoke of unity and bringing the country together. Please, consider getting some therapy before it's too late.

Posted by: Hammer on 11/21/08 at 12:20 PM  Respond

Savage and these sort of people are loud mouthed intellectually-challenged clowns.

Posted by: Arthur on 11/21/08 at 12:22 PM  Respond

All these idiots need to just STOP their smear OR BE ARRESTED for INCITING. If Obama is ever harmed by one of the audience members that believes this crap, I wonder what their bleap will be.

Posted by: Penny on 11/23/08 at 7:02 AM  Respond

Obama is no Hitler, I know. End of discussion.

Posted by: Horst Wessel on 11/23/08 at 7:19 AM  Respond

Fascism and Nationalism can exist together as they did with Hitler but it doesn't mean they cannot exist apart. Classic fascism is the government deciding who wins in business (political class) and who does not (non-political class)...sound familiar?

The new "Nationalism" is "political correctness" combined with "social justice" and "financial justice".

Instead of a pantheon of Aryan/Nordic gods to motivate the Nationalistic Jungian myth, this time around it is all of us "saving the planet".

You cannot, by definition, have a nationalistic movement when the ultimate target is much larger.

Posted by: Todd on 11/23/08 at 9:16 AM  Respond

I am proud of the right wing for acting like they are towards Obama. After 8 years of complete hatred by the "tolerant" and "open minded" left and Democrats, and never even trying to give him a chance after he won in 2000. I am really glad the right is now showing the same hate towards a Democrat. This is all about getting even with the left for 8 years of hatred and deliberate devisiveness.

Next time a Republican wins the presidency, if your side is willing to give him/her a chance and some respect, those of us on the right will do the same to a Democrat who wins.

But you hate-mongers have created this reaction, we are just not going to forgive and forget 8 years of complete and total hatred, that just can not be done.

Posted by: Jay on 11/23/08 at 9:20 AM  Respond

Although I'm a fan of Conservative Talk Radio, Michael Savage is too over the top for me in most cases therefore I prefer not to listen to his show. None of the other Talk radio hosts like Limbaugh and Levin have made this comparison between Obama and Hitler. Regardless after reading about Obama's proposal for National Youth Service being financed equal to our military, making this comparison with Hitler's Youth came automatically. Anyone who is familiar with the Obama/Manuel National Service Corps plan is being intentionally blind if they can't see a distinct comparison between the two. Given Obama's past relationship with Communist community organizers makes this all the more scary. Everyone, left or right should keep an eye on the Service Corps to see where they're headed. It doesn't matter who is in office it is our duty to see that they don't attempt to over step their bounds of power. The media is usually the one that handles this chore but since they're in Obama's pocket they can't be depended on to do the job.

Making a comparison between Bush and Hitler is laughable. At no time has Bush attempted to take any of Iraqs natural resources despite the continued lies from the left. Bush has been completely on the up and up in his relationship with the Iraqis. In fact he's even been too generous. You're right Hitler was a socialist just like Obama.

Posted by: Dr_Moon on 11/23/08 at 11:52 AM  Respond

Wrong! Obama expressed his opinion exactly like what was said. Obama said he thought the US Constitution was wrong by not including wealth redistribution and needed to be changed.

Posted by: Dr_Moon on 11/23/08 at 11:56 AM  Respond

Excuse me, but being listed in the Cambridge "Who's Who" books is not of any value. There are no criteria, you just pay to get listed, and it's not at all an indication of your knowledge, skill or status. Using it as a credential, however, is an indication of how meager your credentials really are.

Posted by: Grazillda on 11/24/08 at 7:57 AM  Respond

It doesn't matter who is in office it is our duty to see that they don't attempt to over step their bounds of power. The media is usually the one that handles this chore but since they're in Obama's pocket they can't be depended on to do the job.

Posted by: Dr_Moon on 11/23/08 at 11:48 AM Respond

You mean like secret rendition? Unilateral declaration of war? Signing statements? Politicization of the Justice Department?

I think it's safe to say that the media can't be trusted as a watchdog no matter whose White House they are "guarding." It's too bad they don't offer journalism in school anymore. Those personal grooming academies sure do a great job though, that Michael Savage is always dressed impeccably!

Posted by: anon on 11/25/08 at 6:08 AM  Respond

the GOEBBELS inspired media, including foxnews, made plain der messiah was the ONLY choice but, with help from the ACORN vote and SS, er, black panther's watch, victory was achieved. the obama youth in the midwest school that was in the news were singing his glorious name. austrian born hitler has nothing on kenyan born obama. the similarities keep goosestepping on!

Posted by: rick on 12/01/08 at 11:37 AM  Respond

anon asks: You mean like secret rendition? Unilateral declaration of war? Signing statements? Politicization of the Justice Department?

Yes. All those things.

Now, let's see if what we all believed about President Obama is true or not, and whether he puts an end to those things like we expected him to, when we were working to elect him.

Posted by: GVC on 12/01/08 at 12:19 PM  Respond

Thank you, Thank you for this post! Over the Thanksgiving holidays, my OWN MOTHER compared me to Rolf in "Sound of Music" - the boyfriend who betrays the Von Trapp family to Nazi soldiers - because I support Obama. I had no idea where her apparently crazed comments were coming from until I read this post! She went on to say that "in the coming days" families will be "pitted against one another" for the "struggle for what is right" and to keep America from "turning into Nazi Germany" (as though all Democrats are on the brink of opening Concentration camps for people on the far right). Come On! Now I realize where she is getting her "information" - which only makes me feel slightly better. Just goes to show how seriously some people listen to right-wing rhetoric, as illogical as it may be. So we do actually have to take it seriously and try to logically explain to people the truth behind such inflammatory remarks before such comments really do turn "mother against daughter" as my mother fears. As one previous commenter noted, right wing radio is strikingly similar to Rwandan hate radio - and we all remember what happened there.

Posted by: Rebecca on 12/04/08 at 9:09 AM  Respond

Rebecca dear, tell your mother that Horst Wessel says that Obama is no Hitler. He knows. This is all nonsense comparing Obama to the Leader. These people that do are obviously dummkopfs. Name calling is so silly.

Posted by: Hans on 12/04/08 at 10:53 AM  Respond

If YOU did not live under Hitler and his Nazi Rule, then you have NO BUSINESS telling a former HITLER YOUTH that he is MISTAKEN about the similarities to Obama. I also saw another German woman's story telling about the rise of Hitler and how similar Obama is. He had glorious rhetoric like BHO and HUGE crowds swooned at his words and they started composing songs in allegiance to him--just like those CA grade-schoolers did and she compared the Hitler Youth to those young men in camouflage in a school on the video of them marching and chanting to Obama. They are trying to make a National Holiday and he's not even in office yet, nor has he done anything -- this shows pure EMOTIONALISM, not commons sense or rational thought. Anyhow, she went on to say that ICE rain down her spine when she viewed these 2 videos; it was so reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the early-Mid 30's.
BHO has already said the National Anthem and the Constitution needs to be changed; and he refuses to salute the flag. In fact his flag-like symbol is distressing to some people. Many people are upset at such notions. Why are you not understanding of these folks and their rights (right of FREE speech)? Why shouldn't they be upset that someone wants to remake their country into a socialist nation? (redistribution is socialism and communism--I know--I have 2 Master's Degree - one in history/social science.) Were you upset that Bush went to war against Iraq -- Didn't you RANT about that? Aren't you allowing the right to vent their frustration now, especially after 8 years of listening to the left rant? Turn-about is fair play. Deal with it!!! We've had to deal with your vile conduct towards the President for 8 LONG years now!! MARK MY WORDS, BHO WILL, WILL attempt to curtail free speech through the Fairness Doctrine. He doesn't like anyone opposed to him having the right to say so, like other fascists who've lived. Just look at what they (YOU) did to Joe the Plumber because he dared to ask a QUESTION. BHO came down HIS street in his neighborhood where he was out playing football with his son. He asked an innocent question and got attacked from all quarters, but that is your modis operandi -- ATTACK them when they've hit a home run. BHO was the one who messed up by revealing his "redistribution" plans. Joe just asked a question. In case you haven't read both his parents belonged to the Communist Party before BHO was even born. Go get your facts before you write.

Posted by: Lisa on 12/08/08 at 4:17 PM  Respond

Lisa dear, google Host Wessel and you will see that he did indeed live during Hitler's time and he said that Obama is NO Hitler. I hope that this ends this idiotic discussion.

Posted by: Hans on 12/08/08 at 6:09 PM  Respond

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