As more and more Americans wake up to the fact that Barack HUSSEIN Obama (mmm, mmm, mmm) is a commie rat-bastard in disguise (and calling him out on it) the media all of a sudden feels it is offensive to do so.
Yet, as this Newsbusters piece reminds us, where was that same media when the left was painting swastikas and Hitler mustaches on President Bush?
Liberals in the media spent the summer and early fall bemoaning signs at town hall protests and tea party rallies calling Obama a socialist or communist comparing him to Hitler (incidentally, many of these signs were actually created by supporters of uber-leftist Lyndon LaRouche, as reported by Seton Motley here and here). These pundits had no such admonitions for signs at anti-war rallies during the Bush administration comparing him to Hitler and the Devil, and calling the president a fascist.
So the Post’s E.J. Dionne’s complaints about the loss of civility in the debate over federal politics fit right in with the narrative liberal pundits have been pushing since last year: comparing an American president to a murderous dictator is unacceptable…if that president is a Democrat.
Going into specifics, we find these examples:
Wrote Dionne in The New Republic yesterday,
The most surprising and disappointing aspect of our politics is how little pushback there has been against the vile, extremist rhetoric that has characterized such a large part of the anti-Obama movement.
President Obama’s administration has largely ignored those accusing him of “fascism” and “communism,” presumably believing that restraint in defense of dignity is no vice.
Dionne quotes former Congressman Jim Leach, R-Iowa, to illustrate the horrific degradation of the national discourse:
There is, after all, a difference between holding a particular tax or spending or health care view, and asserting that an American who supports another approach or is a member of a different political party is an advocate of an ‘ism’ of hate that encompasses gulags and concentration camps.
Might that same characterization have applied when MoveOn.org considered airing an ad contrasting images of Bush and Hitler, and stating “What were war crimes in 1945 is foreign policy in 2003″? Searches on Google News and Nexis show no complaints from Dionne about the petty Bush-is-a-Nazi attacks that pervaded his presidency.
The five latter years of the Bush presidency were rife with Nazi comparisons. As Byron York reported in 2003,
“It’s going a bit far to compare the Bush of 2003 to the Hitler of 1933,” writes Dave Lindorff in “Bush and Hitler: The Strategy of Fear,” which appeared in February on the far-left site Counterpunch.org. “Bush simply is not the orator that Hitler was. But comparisons of the Bush administration’s fear- mongering tactics to those practiced so successfully and with such terrible results by Hitler and Goebbels are not at all out of line.”
Liberal author Wayne Madsen, reported York, accused Bush of “borrowing liberally from Hitler’s play book,” and said that the Nazi dictator “would be proud that an American president is emulating him in so many ways.”
The American Thinker also documented scores of Bush-Nazi comparisons. NPR’s Garrison Keillor called Republicans “brownshirts in pinstripes.” George Soros said Bush “reminds me of the Germans,” as “my experiences under Nazi and Soviet rule have sensitized me.”
Just ot be clear: I believe Obama (mmm, mmm, mmm) is a commie rat-bastard whose heroes are Mao, Stalin, Marx, Chavez, and Hitler.
