This Week in Abusive Conservative Holocaust Rhetoric

David Streeter — March 5, 2010 – 10:25 am | Abusive Holocaust Rhetoric Comments (0) Add a comment

This week:

• Republican Ohio Senate Candidate Rob Portman consciously chose to raise money for the Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST) which, among its other inappropriate statements, instructs its activists to fight “the Nazis” in the Ohio Legislature. In response, NJDC joined with Democratic Ohio Representatives Steve Slesnik, Mike Foley, Ronald Gerberry, and Kevin Yuko in calling for Portman to back out of the event. Unfortunately Portman disregarded the criticism and opted to lend his presence to COAST’s fundraising efforts, allowing them to profit in spite of their Holocaust rhetoric.

 

• Rush Limbaugh compared Obama’s health care reform speech to “being in the Nuremberg Trials.” Limbaugh made it very clear during his tantrum that he felt Obama’s speech was a “waste of time.” Does he think the same about the Nuremberg Trials?

 

• Glenn Beck continued his efforts to rewrite history and political science textbooks by trying to link progressivism with Nazism, Communism, and all sorts of other negative “isms”. He also branded the concept and pursuit of social justice as an extension of Nazism. Unfortunately, trying to summarize Beck’s argument remains dubious because, as with the majority of segments from his show that involve a chalkboard, he’s all over the place. 

 

• Beck also agreed with a caller who declared that Hitler and Mussolini were examples of democracy in action. Anyone who took high school history should know that Mussolini came to power through a coup and that Hitler and his party rose to power through intimidation and subversion of the Weimar Republic’s laws. They did not achieve power through American-style elections, which the caller implied. Callers such as this one make it very clear that Beck’s historical manipulation is —at the very least—having a negative impact on our country’s collective intelligence and on the sanity of the conservative movement.

 

• Michael Savage compared diversity training to Nazi indoctrination during an ambiguously bigoted rant.  

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