I don’t know who it was that first observed that Glenn Beck has a bad case of Nazi Tourette’s syndrome, the tendency to blurt out “Nazi” as an accusation against those one disagrees with. Tea Party Nation leader Judson Phillips seems to have the same affliction. And even criticizing him for this trait is, to him, proof that someone is a Nazi — even if the person doing it is Jewish. In an email to supporters he writes:
Are liberals really like the Nazis of 1930’s and 1940’s era German? Are they really the kind of people who engage in that kind of behavior? Or this just some conservative hyperbole?
Do liberals really want to silence their critics? To liberals really believe in a one party state? Do liberals really want to deny those who disagree with them the ability and the opportunity to offer different opinions?
The answer is yes.
Like the book burning Nazis of the 1930’s, the left wants to suppress all dissenting opinion.
This is not true of all liberals, only the overwhelming majority. I appear occasionally on Thom Hartman’s show on RT. Thom is very far to the left but to his credit, he brings on people like me who do not agree with him and he lets us make our points.
The vast majority of liberals are represented by people like Aaron Keyak who is the interim director of the National Jewish Democratic Committee.
After I made my blog post yesterday comparing liberals to Nazis, he took to Twitter to demand that Republicans denounce me…
He actually proved my point. Liberals do not want to discuss or debate issues. They want to silence those who disagree with them.
So did the Nazis.
The left is in love with totalitarian regimes. Obama himself has wistfully admired the power dictators have to simply impose their will.
But the truism of all totalitarian regimes is that they cannot stand criticism.
If that last sentence doesn’t set off your irony meters, they are in need of repair.
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joemcken
February 19, 2013 at 9:34 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
AFAIK, “Nazi Tourette’s” was coined by Lewis Black on The Daily Show. Best way to describe it, really, and that’s from a guy who actually has Tourette’s.
Deen
February 19, 2013 at 9:41 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Depends. If you’re talking about normal irony meters, you’re probably right – they blow up all the time due to irony overload anyway. However, on my heavy-duty, Right-Wing-Proof Irony Meter™, it only registers as small wiggle of the needle.
jnorris
February 19, 2013 at 9:45 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I like how he doesn’t provide evidence of having his liberty destroyed. Persecutions are easier to imagine if there’s no evidence for them.
oranje
February 19, 2013 at 9:48 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
There isn’t a big enough “Citation Needed” sign in the world for this guy.
democommie
February 19, 2013 at 9:55 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Citations have a liberal bias.
Jeremy Shaffer
February 19, 2013 at 9:57 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
jnorris at 3: It’s not just that he doesn’t provide evidence that his liberty has been destroyed, it’s also that by having the ability to make the accusation to a large audience at all he provides the evidence that his liberty has not been destroyed.
nigelTheBold, also Avo
February 19, 2013 at 9:58 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Liberals love ice cream! So did the Nazis. Liberals love foreign films. Guess what Nazis loved? German films, which are foreign.
You know what else Nazis did? Compared everyone to fucking Nazis.
fifthdentist
February 19, 2013 at 9:59 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Them Jew Nazis are the worst ones!
But, absolutely, I remember during the Bush administration that criticism was accepted politely and seriously considered by Karl Rove, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, each of whom carefully weighed the input from those who disagreed with them in making future decisions.
Bwaaaaha. I couldn’t even type that with a straight face.
What I actually remember is that the mildest disagreement would have one labeled with the condition of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”
Which, in hindsight, is quite a mild condition compared to “Ni**er President Complex” that has taken hold of the teabaggers.
nigelTheBold, also Avo
February 19, 2013 at 9:59 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
democommie:
While I realize this is a variation on the “reality has a liberal bias” theme, I’m so stealing it. And not giving you credit.
You know why? Because that’s what the Nazis did.
Mr Ed
February 19, 2013 at 10:00 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
So are they saying that America 2013 is the Weimar Republic? After Googling Weimar Republic I’d like to hear conservatives tell us how we are so similar.
John Pieret
February 19, 2013 at 10:39 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
After I made my blog post yesterday comparing liberals to Nazis, he took to Twitter to demand that Republicans denounce me…
The bastard! Condeming you for condeming liberals? What could he have been thinking?!? It is only fair to show him what good ol’ Americans, unlike them Nazis, do in such situations! We debate by calling people Nazis and they just point out that we are calling people Nazis! What can you do with such people?
Dave Maier
February 19, 2013 at 10:41 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I like this bit: “Obama himself has wistfully admired the power dictators have to simply impose their will.”
See, when Romney expressed his desire to simply impose his will, he said it in a red-blooded American capitalist way: “I like being able to fire people.” Which is totally okay!
jameshanley
February 19, 2013 at 11:20 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
If that last sentence doesn’t set off your irony meters, they are in need of repair.
Over the last couple of decades I’ve expended so much money on repairing, replacing and upgrading irony meters that I’ve finally decided it’s not worth the cost. I now live an irony-free life.
Doug Little
February 19, 2013 at 12:01 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
These jokers need to understand the difference between opinions and facts. You are entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts, so to them when they have the facts wrong and someone calls them on it and makes them look silly that it’s somehow silencing them. The way I see it the “liberals” are terrible at silencing them as there are more crazy conservatives out there committing acts of creative story telling than ever, they have no shame preferring to continue with some reality bending narrative even when reality smacks them up the side of the head.
Case in point, Rubio’s response to the Presidents SOTU speech the other night, he erected quite the strawman that he then battered into submission.
Hercules Grytpype-Thynne
February 19, 2013 at 12:57 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@Dave Maier:
Actual quotes from George W. Bush:
– Business Week, July 30, 2001
greg1466
February 19, 2013 at 2:39 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I don’t ever recall hearing that one of the Nazi techniques for silencing critics was to publicly point and laugh.
davefitz
February 19, 2013 at 3:49 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“Judson Phillips Has Nazi Tourette’s”
Immediately thought of the band Wilson Phillips, singing some romantic, Nazi love songs.
kermit.
February 19, 2013 at 5:35 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Mr Ed: After Googling Weimar Republic I’d like to hear conservatives tell us how we are so similar.
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Hitler was infamous for his establishment of somewhat cheaper and more applicable healthcare. He also, much to the dismay of civilized Westerners everywhere, worked hard to maintain unemployment benefits. And he was terrifying in his determination to compromise with his political enemies.
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Plus, he made the trains run on time.