“We do both kinds of politics here: Republican and Tea Party!”
With apologies to the Blues Brothers.
The Nazis were right-wing in that they were highly nationalistic, emphasized traditional values, were racist, xenophobic, anti-international, and called upon a mythic past to promote a sense of group indentity.
Militarism also tends to be right-wing, and while of course there have been heavily-armed communist regimes and rebel groups, right-wing regimes have undertaken more foreign military adventures and done so more blatantly in the name of national self-interest. And of course domestically in the US, it’s the right who are more heavily armed and pro-military.
And of course they were right-wing in that they were firm believers in private ownership of the means of production, left capitalists alone to do pretty much whatever they wanted, destroyed all forms of labor representation that might limit the powers of capitalists to exploit the working class, and even provided slave labor for private companies.
Not really poster children for the left, there.
I’ve always heard Nazi Propaganda Radio.
Watching will set you free.
*Anschauen macht frei?
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If you listen to the credits you learn that Click and Clack’s Russian chauffer is Pickup Endropov, an obvious alias.
OK I know, a communist not a Nazi, but I don’t think most FOX news fans know the difference, or even the fact that they were at war with each other.
They’re pretty much only left-wing in that they gave free ponies to everyone. Okay, cheap vacations, but who’s to quibble?
I was going to say that their social welfare policy was also centrist when I realize I have no idea how much social welfare they had. But when you had to have the government’s permission to change your job, that makes any pretense of welfare sort of moot.
I maintain that, even as a student of political science, no allegation I’ve ever heard is odder than those conservatives throw at NPR. Sure, it’s odd to call Obama a Marxist/Kenyan/Muslim whatever, but NPR=Nazism?
Yes. One of the reasons for the Rohm purge was that the SA expected the revolution to continue along the lines of the early platform. The big-capital funders of the Nazi Party’s electoral victories were scared shitless of that.
Hitler, knowing which side buttered his bread, made a choice and the rest, of course, is history.
I listen to NPR all day, nearly everyday. The last year or more I find myself wondering when Fox bought NPR. IMHO, it seems that there are more conservatives spouting Teapublican babble, nearly unchallenged, on NPR than there ever were in the past. Also the call in shows like Diane Rehm and On Point take plenty of calls from conservative listeners. So NPR definitely has conservative listeners.
Maybe thats what this is all about. Trying to woo conservative NPR listeners back to Fox and Rush.
Interestingly, the OP’s link has been updated to include the standard apology:
What strikes me about assertions such as this, many of the ones about Obama, and most of the other outrageous things that come out of Fox, the Tea Party and Palin, is that they are all examples of the Big Lie:
What is so scary to me is that it seems to work, especially the last point - if you say it often enough and loud enough, it becomes accepted as (at least some version) of the truth. The media, ever quivering to trumpet the latest popular nonsense in a bid for audience, often repeat these lies as one legitimate side of a valid debate, and then it’s all over. Until the next Big Lie starts a new round.
Roddy
Well, that’s fine for the Jews, when is he going to apologize to the Nazis?
Which, if it ever, Lord Forbid ya know, ever gets that far, is precisely what will happen to the Teabaggers. And they can kiss their guns goodbye too.
This is even more appropriate.
Never go full Godwin, man.
It’s that show where they boldly and stubbornly advance the most blatant of lies.
Y’know… Gall Things Considered.
Quoting from John Mace’s quote of FOX’s quote of the ADL director’s response to the apology:
I’m in a hotel room tonight. Will they charge me extra to clean up the sarcasm that’s all over the floor?
I’ve just started reading this book, which is causing me a certain amount of scatterbrained confusion every time I glance at this thread.