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Oh my.
Douglas Carpenter (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-11-09 01:35 AM
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Obama=Hitler
Run time: 05:02
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS2rJP-udUs
Posted on YouTube: October 04, 2008
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Posted on DU: August 11, 2009
By DU Member: Douglas Carpenter
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Please forgive me for posting this deeply offensive video. But I think it is a good idea to see just how nuts these nuts really are.
I found this video posted as an example of right-wing lunacy in an AlterNet article:
Inside Story on Town Hall Riots: Right-Wing Shock Troops Do Corporate America's Dirty Work
http://www.alternet.org/politics/141860/inside_story_on...
The video was made by ResistNet - a brother site of Grassfire.org
This is what this Alternet article had to say about Grassfire and ResistNet:
Grassfire and ResistNet
The FreedomWorks commenters are tame by comparison with those found on ResistNet, a project of Grassfire.org. Using a social-networking platform, Grassfire claims some 400,000 members who are dedicated to "resisting" the "Democratic agenda," which, by their lights, includes "open borders" and "taxpayer-funded abortions."
A 501(c)(4) nonprofit, Grassfire has been named as a "stealth political action committee" by Public Citizen. Its founder and president, Steve Elliott, has held up MoveOn.org as a model for where he would like to take his organization.
ResistNet, has become a major hub for turning out hard-core right-wingers to health-care town hall meetings. The organization took in $1.5 million in 2007 (the most recent year for which information is publicly available).
It's difficult to find out much of anything about Elliott; he manages to keep a very low profile. But SourceWatch and Public Citizen report that Grassfire is represented by the Washington public relations firm Shirley & Bannister, whose principal is Craig Shirley, the man who gave us the Willie Horton ad of the 1988 presidential election.
Shirley promoted the movie, Stolen Honor, a Swiftboat-style smear piece made about 2004 presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. Today, Shirley's clients, according to the Shirley & Bannister Web site, include the National Rifle Association, author Ann Coulter, religious right co-founder Richard Viguerie, and other religious right figures.
But Shirley & Bannister retains ties to GOP establishment figures; its Web site bears an endorsement from William Kristol, who served in the administration of the first George Bush, who happens to be the candidate whose campaign reaped some of its victory from Shirley's Horton ad.
The firm also promotes the books of former Rep. Joe Scarborough, R-Fla., (now of MSNBC) and former George H.W. Bush speechwriter Peggy Noonan (who promised us a "kinder, gentler nation") -- books published by Rupert Murdoch's HarperCollins.
The site also lists several other major publishers as clients for the promotion of books by right-wing authors.
I called Shirley & Bannister on Friday morning, asking if Grassfire/ResistNet was its client, since it is not listed on the Web site. I was told that Amy Haas, the person who could answer my question, was on the phone, and would get back to me. She did not.
On its introductory page, Grassfire.org complimentary words from Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., and Sen. DeMint.
"Grassfire has done a great job and has done a great service to the American people," reads the DeMint quote.
http://www.alternet.org/politics/141860/inside_story_on...
Behind the Aegis (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-11-09 01:44 AM
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1. **** THAT!
I didn't make it more than two minutes into that piece of nauseating shit! I am not very pleased with Obama on a few issues, but he is not even remotely akin to Hitler. As soon as the dubbed version of Hitler speaking over Obama came on, I turned the shit off. Count me as another loud-mouth Jew who finds the use of Nazi imagery disrespectful, especially when it is abused to this level.
Turborama (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-11-09 01:51 AM
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2. Agreed, I didn't even watch it and went straight to the article
It's well worth a read.
Rhiannon12866 (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-11-09 01:54 AM
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3. I certainly agree with you...
What are all these references to Nazis all about?! And it seems to be coming constantly from the right. If Democrats have ever done this, they end up apologizing publicly. If anyone was actually behaving like Nazis, wouldn't the world be in an uproar?! Some things are sacrosanct and this is just inexcusable.
Huh? Bold area, above.
Tx4obama (784 posts) Tue Aug-11-09 02:04 AM
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4. It is disgusting that so-called-Americans put together video crap like that!
Thanks for posting.
It is good to see what the haters are doing, but it is sad that we have people like that in America!
Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-11-09 02:16 AM
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5. I hear the comparison a lot from the right
But to think someone actually took the time to edit that whole thing? Holy shit, that's a new level of crazy. I wonder if any of them realize the absolute irony of what they're doing.
Douglas Carpenter (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-11-09 09:34 AM
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9. the "new Hitler" or the Biblical anti-Christ...as batshit crazy as either of those are -such lunacy is now approaching the common mainstream discussion of today's modern Republican Party, rank-and-file activist.
Not necessarily the average person who might vote Republican or the professional who know they should watch their words - at least a little bit, but the common vernacular of the birthers, teabaggers, freepers and right-wing fundamentalist who now are the mainstream foot soldiers for today's Republican Party.
coyotespaw (890 posts) Tue Aug-11-09 02:26 AM
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6. K&R, just so that everyone can see just what the **** we are up against...
Do these bug****ers not realize that they're calling their opposition fascists, while supporting FASCISTS! ****, what is wrong with these goofy bastards?
The budding gigolo primitive:
armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-11-09 05:43 AM
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7. I lasted about 45 seconds. **** that shit.
ScottLand (277 posts) Tue Aug-11-09 07:13 AM
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8. Not even going to watch it.
I'm disgusted with this kind of talk. This is an affront to anyone who knows anything about the Holocaust.
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