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NY Times' Brooks on Limbaugh's comparison of Dems to Hitler: "What he's saying is insane"

August 09, 2009 1:28 pm ET

From the August 9 edition of NBC's Meet the Press:

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Previously:

Rush Limbaugh's obsession with Nazi comparisons

Limbaugh again refers to "similarities" between Dem Party leaders, "Nazi Party of Germany"; adds Pelosi "started it"

Limbaugh discusses "the similarities between the Democrat Party of today and the Nazi Party in Germany"

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    • Author by ForTheLoveOfEllipsis... (August 09, 2009 3:04 pm ET)
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      David Brooks apparently is one of teh first conservatives slowly waking up to the fact that the teabagging wing of the conservative movement is throwing the GOP over an electoral cliff. While it's a first step, the GOP really needs to have their next candidate be a teabagger who loses 48 states a la Mondal in 1984 for the GOP to truly begin to wake up from their partisan tantrum and be grown-ups again...
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      • Author by Tbone Slickens (August 09, 2009 3:15 pm ET)
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        While I agree in principle, the Brooks of the GOP got their moderate candidate in one John McCain. How did that work out?
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        • Author by princeofwheels (August 09, 2009 3:24 pm ET)
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          So instead of sticking to the subject, you want to rehash the brillance of the Conservatives. The Conservatives should have drafted Limbaugh, Hannity or whomever would carry thier torch.
          Rushs' statements are insane..you do agree with that don't you?
          Most of Rushs' statements are insane..or at least not reality based.
          If Brooks can see this, why can't others on the Right see it. I am not counting the elected officials, they aren't permitted to question the insanity Mr. Limbaugh. Or they'll get spanked on National Radio.
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          • Author by phredicles (August 09, 2009 5:03 pm ET)
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            See, to a true believer, conservatism can never fail; it can only be failed (I can't take credit for that, but it's true). So whenever I rightie loses, it's clearly because he wasn't right-wing enough.

            Part of me would enjoy seeing St. Sarah run against Obama (the part that would have to listen to what comes flying out of her mooseburgerhole): I still think it would end in Obama being the first since George Washington to get every single electoral vote. And George was running unopposed.
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        • Author by harley (August 09, 2009 3:39 pm ET)
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          The teabagging conservatives got a "conservative" in herr dubyah. How did that work out?

          But, the reality: The revisionist teabaggers are now calling herr dubyah a "moderate" because he was a complete and utter failture and the teabaggers don't want to equate a failure with conservatism even though it's the logical and factual connection.
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          • Author by epkklk851 (August 09, 2009 5:00 pm ET)
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            Let's not go into Nazi territory, not even a "lite" version with Germanic references. George W. Bush did a lot to damage our civil rights with the Patriot Act, but that was done through "good intension" not a "final solution." The fact is, he was a conservative only on his social issues. Huge deficits and increases in spending while cutting taxes, especially to the rich, with the crazy idea that it would increase investment by the wealthy and thereby grow us out of a the debt was a "laff"able Reagan solution. Dubya never meant to harm the U.S., he wanted to run it like a business, but then 9/11 happened and it rocked his world and forced a bunch of changes. He was never very bright, he was never a deep thinker and he listened to much to people like Cheney, who is evil as far as I am concerned and deserves every Darth Vader reference ever pinned to him. Bush was an all around failure, but please, he wasn't a Nazi, facsist, Marxist, or communist. He is Millard Filmore's replacement at the rock bottom of the list.
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            • Author by mary59 (August 09, 2009 8:53 pm ET)
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              Bush was a pawn, no question, but he enjoyed executing people and was quite eager to wage war unleash the evil it entails.
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              • Author by eddiebear2 (August 10, 2009 1:51 am ET)
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                So, the snitch/"flag" line is ok?

                I recall when dissent was patriotic. Good times. Good times.
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                • Author by robyn20094113 (August 10, 2009 7:01 am ET)
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                  There is a big difference between a snitch flag line and a line to collect misinformation. So it can be commented on and corrected. You and your ilk just want to twist it into something scary.
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                  • Author by eddiebear2 (August 10, 2009 8:17 am ET)
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                    then what is it? And I noticed, all of a sudden, the ACLU is OK with the Gov't collecting information on people. Go figure.
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              • Author by epkklk851 (August 10, 2009 9:01 am ET)
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                Yes, that is true, but it doesn't make him a Nazi. I think that George W. Bush is a rather limited man put into positions of power where he didn't really understand everything that was going on and all the implications of his decisions. He thought it would be great to make the Middle East into Texas, but he didn't understand that the locals might be fonder of their own traditions than Bapstist interpretations of Democracy. And I found his mocking of the pleas for clemency of the man on death row to be horrendous, and un-Christian in the extreme. I am no fan of Dubya, but I think we need to retract the Nazi imagery.
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                • Author by Tbone Slickens (August 10, 2009 9:15 pm ET)
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                  Yes that is a good idea. I found tons of the left wing equating Bush with Hitler. I don't think the left wants to go down this road.
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        • Author by ForTheLoveOfEllipsis... (August 09, 2009 3:51 pm ET)
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          No, I don't think you get it. What the GOP needs is for the party to run an all-out teabag-fringe righty (hey, why not Joe?Sam The Fake Plumber, or St. Sarah of Arc?) who gets thoroughly destroyed in the general election; that will clean that fringe out of all its chips (to borrow a poker metaphor) and allow the party to move back to the center. This is much as happened to the Democrats in '84 when they ran a true-blue outright-liberal candidate in Mondale and saw him get destroyed. This opened the way for a more centrist brand of Democrats (i. e., the DLC) to eventually gain enough power to move the whole party back to the center, because the far left went all-in on Mondale and saw him get wiped out...
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          • Author by BillJ-MN (August 09, 2009 6:42 pm ET)
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            It was a damn shame the country didn't elect Mondale. The man was extremely intelligent, had great ideas, was very honest and had a backbone of steel. He could have been one of our greatest presidents ever.
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            • Author by Tbone Slickens (August 10, 2009 9:17 pm ET)
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              He carried the great state of MN...and that was all! The rest of the country didn't see it your way thank God!
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        • Author by worrierking (August 09, 2009 5:37 pm ET)
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          How did that work out?

          One hell of a lot better than how it would have worked out with your typical teabagger or astroturfer at the head of the ticket.


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    • Author by wolf kotenberg (August 09, 2009 4:18 pm ET)
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      I would like to hear people like McCain and Boehner say that publicly. Until then, Mr Limbaugh is the leader of the party.
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      • Author by robyn20094113 (August 10, 2009 7:05 am ET)
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        That says a lot about that party doesn't it? I give it a great big mature ICK.
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