This Week in Abusive GOP Holocaust Rhetoric

David Streeter — February 19, 2010 – 9:44 am | Abusive Holocaust Rhetoric | Republicans | Stop the Smears Comments (0) Add a comment

This week, the Republican Party and its allies continued to abuse the memory of the Holocaust in order to spread fear about President Obama and progressives.

Former Ohio Secretary of State and Family Research Council scholar Ken Blackwell (R-OH) continued the Republican Party’s disgusting trend of exploiting Jewish death to oppose President Barack Obama. In a homophobic op-ed about tax-exempt status for churches, Blackwell wrote:

What we are witnessing right now is an anti-Christian programmatic pogrom. What is a ‘pogrom’ [? It’s] the word that describes anti-Jewish raids by Cossacks and others in czarist Russia, but a programmatic pogrom best describes what is happening right now. These are not isolated attacks. And while we no longer have Cossacks to threaten, we now have left-wing bloggers who actually call themselves Kossacks (after the Daily Kos).

This shameful comparison of progressive bloggers to the horseback-mounted murderers and rapists that pillaged their way through the Jewish pale of settlement in czarist Russia is absolutely unacceptable. Blackwell, and presumably Fox News, knew what he was doing when he wrote this vile comparison and he has yet to apologize for it. Horrendous statements like these are just one of the many reasons why Jews are not flocking to the Republican Party.

Unfortunately Blackwell’s op-ed is not the only instance of absurd GOP rhetoric this week. In addition to Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck’s respective rants this week, Janice Shaw Crouse of the Beverley LaHaye Institute told the CPAC convention’s rabid audience that America’s children are susceptible to becoming the next Hitler youth because her values are allegedly under attack by liberals. One can only imagine what other gems will come out of Glenn Beck’s address to CPAC tomorrow night.

 

 

 

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