HILTER IN AUGUST
First it was a woman confronting Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank during a town meeting on health care reform. She stood up and began a lengthy speech during which she compared President Obama's plans for health care overhaul to something from the Nazi era. She even had a prop, a poster showing President Obama with a Hitler-style mustache.
Then on tonight's Chris Matthews show I heard him talking about a World War II veteran, ironically named Eisenhower, who stood up at an Iowa town hall meeting and dropped another H-bomb, calling President Obama a little Hitler. Mr. Eisenhower went on to add that he wished he could get together a bunch of like-minded armed citizens to go to Washington. During all this, Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) stood mute.
Whao, dude, this is getting deep. To gain a bit of perspective on this, allow me to quote the man himself, Adolph Hitler, who had this to say in Mein Kampf:
All this was inspired by the principle — which is quite true in itself — that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes.
Gee, does that remind you of anybody you've been listening to lately? If anyone has been stealing a play from the Hitler play book, I guess it would be the organizers of the so-called grass roots campaign on health care reform. Small wonder so many of them instinctively gravitate to the Hitler metaphors. Little Hitlers, indeed.
August 25, 2009
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