# I'm pitting the woman at a town hall who yelled "Heil Hitler" at a Jew. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 18, 2009, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pitting-the-woman-at-a-town-hall-who-yelled-heil-hitler-at-a-jew/506900 "2009-08-18T23:55:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pitting-the-woman-at-a-town-hall-who-yelled-heil-hitler-at-a-jew/506900/101 "2009-08-19T15:45:19Z")
Well, if you insist. Fox News anchors don’t know what the hell they’re talking about, and make shit up. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pitting-the-woman-at-a-town-hall-who-yelled-heil-hitler-at-a-jew/506900/102 "2009-08-19T15:45:29Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I pretty much assumed that she was trying to call HIM a Nazi, which is just as stupid and offensive in any case. Yes! Because “socialism” = “fascism”, dontcha know. So “socialist health care” = “fascist health care” = “Nazi health care”! :eek: If you support Nazi health care, you must be a Nazi. :=) (\<— Hitler smiley?) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pitting-the-woman-at-a-town-hall-who-yelled-heil-hitler-at-a-jew/506900/103 "2009-08-19T15:49:18Z")
Aww goodam contrary, as they say in Lubbock! Fixed News knows _exactly_ what they are doing, and they do it anyway. If I thought Hannity were ignorant, I might be able to forgive him. He isn’t, and I don’t. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pitting-the-woman-at-a-town-hall-who-yelled-heil-hitler-at-a-jew/506900/104 "2009-08-19T15:51:37Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Well, if you insist. > > Fox News anchors don’t know what the hell they’re talking about, and make shit up. Arr! You know who I’m talking to! ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pitting-the-woman-at-a-town-hall-who-yelled-heil-hitler-at-a-jew/506900/105 "2009-08-19T15:55:02Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Arr! You know who I’m talking to! …Me? Well, if I must… “Fox News anchors don’t know what the hell they’re talking about, and make shit up.” ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pitting-the-woman-at-a-town-hall-who-yelled-heil-hitler-at-a-jew/506900/106 "2009-08-19T16:04:45Z")
I hate you all. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pitting-the-woman-at-a-town-hall-who-yelled-heil-hitler-at-a-jew/506900/107 "2009-08-19T16:17:35Z")
We tease because we care. And because we’re sociopaths. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pitting-the-woman-at-a-town-hall-who-yelled-heil-hitler-at-a-jew/506900/108 "2009-08-19T16:55:52Z")
Fox News anchors don’t know what the hell they’re talking about, and make shit up. Also, I am Spartacus. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pitting-the-woman-at-a-town-hall-who-yelled-heil-hitler-at-a-jew/506900/109 "2009-08-19T16:56:02Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Memorial Day in the US is an excuse to shop. Similar holidays in other countries aren’t really treated the same way- they’re actually about honoring the fallen, and such. > > I presume this is especially true of Israel because everyone serves in the IDF so it’s personal for everybody, and because its military actually has to protect it from direct threats. > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > His point was that in Israel, people honour and respect soldiers. In the U.S. we have Memorial Day, which is largely an excuse to buy mattresses on sale (and have BBQs, and drink beer, and buy other things on sale). Ah, yes, that makes sense. :smack: ETA: I also hear that Fox News anchors don’t know what the hell they’re talking about, and make shit up. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pitting-the-woman-at-a-town-hall-who-yelled-heil-hitler-at-a-jew/506900/110 "2009-08-19T17:19:14Z")
I was sitting around yesterday wondering to myself: do Fox News anchors know what the hell they’re talking about or are they making shit up. Anybody got a line on that one? ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pitting-the-woman-at-a-town-hall-who-yelled-heil-hitler-at-a-jew/506900/111 "2009-08-19T17:28:37Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I was sitting around yesterday wondering to myself: do Fox News anchors know what the hell they’re talking about or are they making shit up. > > Anybody got a line on that one? Yes. They don’t present anything that hasn’t been thoroughly fact-checked, and are the most fair and balanced source of information on television. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pitting-the-woman-at-a-town-hall-who-yelled-heil-hitler-at-a-jew/506900/112 "2009-08-19T17:29:46Z")
Alls I know is, democracy depends on you, Fox News Anchors. And that is why, that’s why our troops are willing to die for you. So, how about, in honor of the American soldier, you quit making shit up. You betcha. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pitting-the-woman-at-a-town-hall-who-yelled-heil-hitler-at-a-jew/506900/113 "2009-08-19T17:30:52Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Yes. > > They don’t present anything that hasn’t been thoroughly fact-checked, and are the most fair and balanced source of information on television. If we could post pictures here, this would be a great time to post a picture of some people sitting around a desk with the caption, “Fox News journalists review the days stories’ to ensure there aren’t any facts in them.” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pitting-the-woman-at-a-town-hall-who-yelled-heil-hitler-at-a-jew/506900/114 "2009-08-19T17:32:26Z")
The anchors don’t write the shit, they don’t make up the shit, that’s the writer’s job. The writers are the colon, the anchors, rectums. The Axis of Anal. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pitting-the-woman-at-a-town-hall-who-yelled-heil-hitler-at-a-jew/506900/115 "2009-08-19T17:36:08Z")
Then they start getting into their (scripted?) off-the-cuff banter, and make with the whole “SEE! The crazy people screaming at senators are how The People really feel! Obama is trying to silence us, just like Hitler! And everybody knows it! As evidenced by the shrieking! Rawwwwr!” Now remember folks, another thing I would have settled for was to hear someone (Bricker) say was that the Republicans have gone mad, but this will do. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pitting-the-woman-at-a-town-hall-who-yelled-heil-hitler-at-a-jew/506900/116 "2009-08-19T17:52:21Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > So now type this sentence out: “Fox News anchors don’t know what the hell they’re talking about, and make shit up” > > Please? Not you, the other guy. But… but I just said that it wasn’t an either/or situation. You act as though you’ve established this fact from our discussion. However, in the interests of accuracy: Fox News anchors sometimes don’t know what they’re talking about, and sometimes they make shit up. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pitting-the-woman-at-a-town-hall-who-yelled-heil-hitler-at-a-jew/506900/117 "2009-08-19T17:55:37Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > I like to think of myself as a reasonable conservative, and I don’t have the slightest interest in attending a town hall meeting. So, yes, you’re right so far: the actions of the most vocal attendees at town hall meetings may not be fairly imputed to the bulk of the conservative movement. Except that major conservative voices in Congress and punditry are cheering their lungs out for the despicable behavior at town halls. > [@Bricker](#): > > I think the reasonable voices don’t believe policy is made at town hall meetings, and thus decline to attend. So yes: this is some ticked-off fringe. Maybe the reasonable voices in the Republican Party should go to some town halls to show everyone that the party isn’t entirely made of insane shitbags. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pitting-the-woman-at-a-town-hall-who-yelled-heil-hitler-at-a-jew/506900/118 "2009-08-19T17:58:37Z")
The trouble isn’t so much reasonable voices, as unreasonable silence. There simply have to be Republicans who know this is vile crap, what starved shred of conscience that remains must nag at them to “Speak! Speak!”, and they do not. They speak volumes without opening their mouths. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pitting-the-woman-at-a-town-hall-who-yelled-heil-hitler-at-a-jew/506900/119 "2009-08-19T18:06:24Z")
44% of Republicans believe that Obama wasn’t born in the U.S. Warning: PDF [http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/PPP\_Release\_National\_819513.pdf](http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/PPP_Release_National_819513.pdf) I don’t know anything about Public Policy Polling so I can’t speak to the accuracy of the poll, but they appear to be a legit polling company. [http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/who.asp?@spdT=493C33B6BCE04710B82A](http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/who.asp?@spdT=493C33B6BCE04710B82A) ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pitting-the-woman-at-a-town-hall-who-yelled-heil-hitler-at-a-jew/506900/120 "2009-08-19T18:07:23Z")
People ask why mainstream Muslims don’t decry extremism. It’s the same reason sane Republicans don’t decry the low-grade morons on their side. They’re afraid of being singled out as _the enemy_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pitting-the-woman-at-a-town-hall-who-yelled-heil-hitler-at-a-jew/506900.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pitting-the-woman-at-a-town-hall-who-yelled-heil-hitler-at-a-jew/506900.md?page=7)