Another Reckless "Free Speech" Episode: GOOPr Compares Obama to Hitler For Not Going to Paris

Where does it end? The crass stupidity and ignorance afoot in this country like a mutant  swine flu virus run amuck. How many brains are already infected we don't know, but on the conservo side it looks like most of them - from the evidence: denying global warming imps, to the subset seeking to make it 100 times worse with the Keystone XL pipeline, to the degenerates who removed a key banking regulation that could bring on another financial crisis. And now, some mutant asshole comparing Obama to Hitler, for god's sakes!

Republican Congressman Randy Weber (R-TX) on Tuesday  took the debate to reprehensibly  offensive levels when he tweeted that "Even Adolph [sic] Hitler thought it more important than Obama to get to Paris. (For all the wrong reasons.) Obama couldn't do it for right reasons."

 

 

Are you kidding me? Turning Obama into Hitler (who had his storm troops INVADE Paris)  because he didn't join the security nightmare mob scene in Paris to selectively mourn the Charlie Hebdo satirists who consistently poked the hornet's nest because they could?  (And let's bear in mind even Pope Francis declared that while using violence in the name of religion is wrong, so is insulting others' religions.)  Aren't people thinking? Haven't they seen the news of problems in the Secret Service - with four major security breaches - and the overhaul just yesterday by Assistant Director Joseph Clancy in replacing four high officials? Imagine the nightmare scene had Obama stood with freakin'  millions in gay Paree with these security vulnerabilities. See also:

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/chris-floyd/60420/the-lash-and-the-sword-hebdo-hypocrisy-and-the-mob-mind

 

 

Let's get this clear:  whatever your take is on the Charlie Hebdo incident and attack, the jaw-dropping insult from a sitting member of Congress was unconscionable. Further, it can only really be understood when you realize that the conservative media in America have been wallowing in that kind of mindless garbage for most of Obama's time in office. (UPDATED: Weber has since apologized as he should)

 

 

Freely engaging in the kind of rhetorical bomb-throwing that had previously been seen and heard on the far fringes of American politics, mainstream conservative commentators have embraced the Obama-is-just-like-Hitler narrative and have proudly paraded it around for years, either oblivious to, or unconcerned with, the offensive implications. In previous blog posts I have noted many outbursts of this Hitler - malarkey, including some clueless folks posting repugnant images such as:

 

 

 

As Media Matters noted last year:

Wallowing in self-pity and convinced of the dark forces moving against them, conservatives launch attack after attack, insisting they're fighting forces at home akin to Hitler's Nazi storm troops. They complain louder and louder that America has become like Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler when 6 million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.

This country's  perception of "free speech" has now been so badly fucked that something as innocuous as a debate over Obama's scheduling is met with a Republican Hitler-based denunciation.  This is a mark of insanity and intemperance - which would be bad enough among the bigot punditry like Limbaugh and Hannity - but is inexcusable coming from a lawmaker. (In Germany such comparisons would earn the guy 3 years at hard labor)

 

 

But sad to say,  this kind of rhetorical bomb throwing  has been a mark of conservative shame throughout the president's tenure.  Let's also recall that Fox News chief Roger Ailes accused the management of National Public Radio of having "a kind of Nazi attitude" when it fired commentator Juan Williams. Then we beheld how the former Fox host Glenn Beck immersed himself in odious Hitler rhetoric during Obama's first years in office, while the then-burgeoning Tea Party movement did the same, and so did Rush Limbaugh. The latter pig obsessed over Obama-Nazi comparisons in 2009:

 

 

"Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate." Limbaugh thought it was "fabulous and fantastic and hilarious that a women shows up at a Barney Frank town hall meeting with an Obama-as-Hitler poster and the Nazi stuff."
 

Note that none of these assholes have likely ever been to Germany or actually spoken to real Germans that fought in WWII - including in the Wehrmacht under Hitler - as I have. So they don't have a damned clue what  they are yapping about, other than from comic books. See e.g.
 

http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2011/07/want-to-know-about-nazi-germanys-real.html

 

 

Then, last year, billionaire venture capitalist Tom Perkins submitted a Wall Street Journal letter to the editor hyping an alleged "progressive war on the American one percent" and compared it to Nazi Germany's anti-Jewish riots. (WSJeditors, a Fox analyst, and Michelle Malkin all defended Perkins from the criticism he received following the distasteful

 

And I've already bashed this fool elitist for that outburst, e.g

http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2014/01/tom-perkins-another-whiny-rich-asshole.html

Then there was cornpone moron Mike Huckabee who  likened abortion to the methodical extermination of the Jewish population in Germany under Hitler. This jerk not even conscious that one mandate under the Reich laws of Hitler was forced abortions, mainly of Jewish women and forced births demanded of "Aryan" women - or dispatch to the camps.

 

 

More recently, the latter day Fox News contributing numbskull Dr. Ben Carson claimed America is "very much like Nazi Germany" in that it has a government "using its tools to intimidate the population."  Clearly this jerkoff who calls himself a doctor has no clue - not one - of the level of intimidation in Nazi Germany in the late 30s, early 40s, when neighbor regularly spied on neighbor and people's doors were broken down in the middle of the night by Gestapo agents - taken to hidden locations - and forced to endure rectal rehydration, genital mutilation and whipping until they expired. Those that didn't were dispatched to Nazi concentration camps. Don't take my word! DO your own research, including getting hold of the book, 'The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During The Second World War', by Martin Gilbert.

 

 

Carson, who was actually expected to mount a presidential campaign, recently defended his ignorant comments:

 

 

"I know you're not supposed to say 'Nazi Germany.' But I don't care about political correctness," suggesting additional Hitler rhetoric could be a cornerstone of Carson's upcoming campaign.

 

 

But it isn't a case of "political correctness" as this imbecile claims, but of getting historical facts correct. Sadly, assholes like Carson, Beck, Huckabee,  Limbaugh and others get away with their BS because for too many 'Muricans the 2nd World War is like ancient history - and most haven't read one single serious monograph on the Nazis, the Third Reich, Hitler himself -  far less actually gone to Germany and spoken to the people who lived at the time.

 

 

For years, the Anti-Defamation League(ADL) has been grappling with the mainstreaming of Hitler rhetoric especially in the punditry and the political class (namely American conservatives)  - which ought to know better.

 

 

Last year the ADL again tried to raise a red flag, declaring, "The six million Jewish victims and millions of other victims of Hitler deserve better. Their deaths should not be used for political points or sloganeering. This type of comparison diminishes and trivializes the Holocaust."

 

 

But do these toads care? Hell no! They will continue to spout their ignorance and rhetorical bombs against Obama so long as they know their main audience is woefully ignorant of the facts of history. This is why they can exploit it!

 

 

See the Pope's take on the limits to free expression here:

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/19f31342-9cb6-11e4-a730-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3OuY6oOIM



See also:

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/shamus-cooke/60462/the-spectacular-media-failure-on-charlie-hebdo

Tom Perkins: Another Whiny, Rich Capitalist With His Head Up His Ass

It would seem that a normally functioning rich (upper 1/2 of 1/2 of 1/2 percent)  guy, in the wake of how these assholes helped cause the 2008 financial meltdown, would shut the fuck up and certainly keep a low profile. But no, it appears some are too brain dead to know that and enter now Tom Perkins  - a billionaire venture capitalist-  pontificating in a letter to The Wall Street Journal in which he wrote of 'parallels' between the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany and what he describes as the "progressive war on the American one percent".

Can anyone seriously believe this?  Does this elitist jerk off even know about the treatment of the Jews in Nazi Germany? Well, if he did, he wouldn't even remotely think of making such an insane analogy. And yet we know the Right does this all the time, whether out of reaching for the most outrageous comparisons they can find to tear down those who hold them up to moral scrutiny, or because they themselves know it's a lie - but figure there are enough dunderheads out there (who lack an informed knowledge of history) to accept the analogy. (Look no further than the 61% of Americans who actually believe Edward Snowden ought to be brought to trial.)

Let me deliver an image for this rich rat fucker and his entitled Neolib, market exploiting pals to show how the Jews were treated in Nazi Germany. It is an image of dead, gassed bodies piled up outside of the concentration camp known as Mauthausen.    The photograph was made by Russian soldiers - who came upon the grisly scene- in May of 1945.   

Perkins and his pallies may wish to know WHO was responsible for this ghastly scene, emblematic of the annihilation of 6 million people. He may be amazed, because he's obviously ignorant, that it in large measure was facilitated by rich business men and venture capitalists like himself!

Ian Kershaw in his masterpiece ‘Hitler Nemesis’, observes,  p. xxxiii):

“Leaders of big business, though often harboring private concerns about current difficulties and looming future problems for the economy, for their part were grateful to Hitler for the destruction of the left-wing parties and trade unions. They were again ‘masters in the house’ in their dealings with their work force”

This was in reference to Hitler dispatching his S.A. thugs to beat and kill Socialists (the REAL ones, not the fake named "National Socialists") as well as communists and labor leaders. This was in addition to his reign of terror against Jews which saw them first labeled using yellow stars (sewn on to their clothing) with the word 'Jude', then deprived of their businesses (having them seized), then their homes - as they were dispatched to the concentration camps. (Buchenwald, Auschwitz, Treblinka, Mauthausen, etc.)

THIS is why the German capitalists, such as Krupp, Volkswagen, I.G. Farben (infamous for later manufacturing the Zyklon B gas used in the gas chambers) etc. threw their lot behind him and provided the political ballast, without which he could never have become 'Der Fuehrer'.  They even helped design the gas chambers for maximum efficiency.

Of course, the rich, entitled swine like Perkins don't wish to hear this, but that is history. Anyone can check it out if they have a mind too, and aren't brainwashed by the Neoliberal capitalist corporate media imps.   As Dieter,a  former Wehrmacht soldier put it, when I met him and two other former Wehrmacht in May, 1985:

"It was disgusting how far the big businessmen went to support Hitler! Had it not been for them I doubt he'd ever have been Chancellor or even gotten 15% of the vote in the 1932 elections.

Incredibly, Perkins was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, disclosing that even a degree from the vaunted Ivy League can turn out worthless if one lets his mind go to seed.  Money --- well, all the money in the world is useless if one's psychological foundation is undermined by untruth, PR and bollocks. 

The dope concludes his letter by warning of a "very dangerous drift in our American thinking," before adding to that:  "Kristallnacht was unthinkable in 1930; is its descendent 'progressive' radicalism unthinkable now?"  (Kristallnacht, also known as the Night of Broken Glass, saw a series of coordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany in November 1938.The attacks were carried out by Sturmabteilung  (S.A.)forces and non-Jewish civilians and were ignored by the German authorities. 91 Jews were killed and around 30,000 were arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps.)

Again, the leap to comparing Kristallnacht administered by Nazi thugs to what progressives might to do Perkins and his rich elites is so absurd as to be barely worth dignifying by response. One need only consider here how Perkins' security state allies came down on Occupy Wall Street back in 2011, even to the extent of aiming rifles at them in Houston! See e.g.http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/1494

This alone shows who holds the reins of power in this society, and it ain't OWS or any of its progressive allies! The notion that those (like OWS)  who've been smacked down by the U.S. national security state can just rise up under some powerful liberal "Fuehrer" to take out Perkins and his entitled elites is so laughable and pathetic as to rival the worst of the 'Dumb and Dumber' movies. In fact, I'd rate it as a qualifier to put anyone who opines it in an institution with thorazine and ECT administered thrice daily.


Others who've been exposed to Perkins' codswallop have described the businessman as a "rich idiot" and condemned the WSJ for printing the letter.  (Given the other tripe and trash they've published over the last few years, especially since Murdoch gained control, I'm not surprised at anything that appears in it anymore.)

New York Times writer Steven Greenhouse tweeted: 'As someone who lost numerous relatives to the Nazi gas chambers, I find statements like this revolting & inexplicable.'

They're "explicable" all right. They are coming from a rat who realizes most people are on to him and his entitled little rich fucks, bathing in their $65,000 copper tubs e.g.

And being able to hop off to St. Kitts every weekend for 18 holes while their wives get rose wine wraps as they gobble their $25,000 apiece Frrrozen Haute Chocolates  - - as millions of American kids starve because Rich-protecting Reepos have cut food stamps and unemployment benefits.

Oh, and why those cuts? So the Reepos can lighten the tax load on the rich entitled elites and gob-smacked global capitalists and hedge funders, and also cushion the military from having any significant cuts.


Let's understand, as Ian Kershaw and Konrad Heiden ('Hitler') document, that Hitler saved his most ferocious attacks for German Marxists, Communists and Socialists - who he automatically consigned to "racial traitors, non-German, non-Aryan". (In most of Hitler's writings he asserts Marxists are Jews based on the fact Karl Marx, author of Das Kapital, was a Jew.)   In one of his worst tirades, a radio speech on October 15, 1933 (from Konrad Heiden's book) Hitler shouted:

These ruinous and inferior characters have succeeded in arousing a world psychosis

This was tied to those he perceived as "Jews" in the American press, working in league with communists and Socialists in Europe to spread rumors about Hitler and demonize him. What happened is that the Jews - like ALL Socialists, Communists, and Marxists- were dispossessed of their worldly goods and bank accounts. By 1936 virtually no German Jew (just as no German Socialist, or Marxist) could own a business, or even own a personal bank account. Worse, if sighted on the streets they risked terrible beatings by gangs of S.S. thugs. Communists were often killed on sight.

If I have any fear-  any at all in this matter - it's that Perkins and HIS lot will invest hundreds of millions in the construction of mammoth concentration camps somewhere out of sight, and then pile PROGRESSIVES who criticize the rich into them, herd them into giant gas chambers  - and eliminate them with Sarin.

Maybe Perkins in his mind knows that's his ultimate plan, so wants to fob the paranoia onto the Left to disarm the stupid people in our midst, of which there are many.