and i think it's gonna be a long long time
till touch down brings me round again to find
i'm not the man they think i am at home-- elton john
The Washington Post:
Former senator John Glenn (D-Ohio) took the defense a step further by comparing the Republicans' misleading statements to those of Nazi Germany. "You've just got to separate out fact from fiction. . . . Too often, too often, in this country, if you hear something repeated, it's the old Hitler business -- if you hear something repeated, repeated, repeated, repeated, you start to believe it," he said.
Hey, Mr. Helpless-plaything-of-V2-mastermind Wernher von Braun! Do I have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat this?
I'll let the editorializing -- "the Republicans' misleading statements" -- speak for itself. But do tell: What were the "misleading statements" of the Nazis?
Comments (2)
09/07/2004 09:18:07 AM
Glenn was probably referring to the work of Julius Striker, the press baron of Franconia whose paper Der Strum was THE leading anti semetic rant rag of Weimar Germany and later the Third Reich.
In a candid moment when he was asked how the German public were able to believe the outrageous things he said about the Jews in his papers Striker quipped:
a steady drip will erode the hardest rock.
Kinda like Fox News on the Democrats, but I digress ...
For a more complete picture of the right wing propaganda machine I recommend your readers check out Lewis Lapham's article in the September (2004) Harpers Magazine - Tentacles of Rage.
Now in Quebec the problem is a left wing one but your not commenting on Quebec in this post.
Posted by Scott McArthur | October 27, 2008 2:32 PM
Posted on October 27, 2008 14:32
09/07/2004 08:55:19 PM
That wasn't entirely my point, but I didn't really phrase it well.
I am growing very tired of people who can't seem to deal with the ordinary cut-and-thrust of political debate in a democracy and who immediately rush to link an opponent to one of the most murderous regimes of the last century.
This sort of rhetorical overkill only minimizes the real crimes of the Nazis and cheapens one's own argument. George Orwell, in Politics and the English Language said it well: "The word Fascism has now no meaning except insofar as it signifies 'something not desirable.'"
Posted by gnotalex | October 27, 2008 2:34 PM
Posted on October 27, 2008 14:34