What’s with all these Hitler comparisons???

Since the begining of the semester, every couple of weeks I see the crazy LaRouche supporters up and down Commonwealth Ave. holding signs and handing out pamphlets with a picture of President Obama with a Hitler mustache. First off, I think that picture is disgusting. Comparing our president to Hitler? What was that thing called???…oh yeah, the Holocaust.

Comparisons like this keep popping up all over the place. When I was on Politico.com today I saw a headline that said, “GOP Tweets clip of Hitler praising Pelosi.” Of course I had to click it to see what it was about.

Apparently the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) tweeted (yes they have a twitter) this Tuesday morning`: “Funny Video: Moonbattery: Hitler Reacts to ObamaCare Maneuvers.” The video is a clip from the the 2004 movie “Der Untergang,” which depicts the final days of World War II and Hitler’s life. In the clip, according to the fake subtles, Hitler praises Nancy Pelosi for sharing his views of health care reform and for not caring about the American people.

This and all the other Hitler comparisons are in bad taste. They’re not even clever or funny.

Yeah, we get it, if Hitler = bad and Obama = bad then that means Obama = Hitler…or something stupid like that. HAHA!!! SO FUNNY!!!

I think the GOP are the only people who find Carlos Mencia funny.

So, of course, because if they didn’t they would look like even bigger assholes, the NRCC apologized:

(From Politico.com)

UPDATE: NRCC spokesman John Randall says they have pulled down the Tweet and offered a mea culpa:

“We saw the video this morning and thought, like other parodies, that it was funny,” Randall just told me. “In 20-20 hindsight, we realized it was in poor taste and pulled it down… I don’t want anyone to think we’re comparing Democrats to Nazis and to Hitler.”

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These are the only people that can make comparing people to Nazis funny.

‘The Decline of American Journalism’–shut up already

In an op-ed piece on Huffingtonpost.com today, Nancy Snow, an “American culture climatologist and persuasion/propaganda expert,” said that because presidential speech writer and conservative columnist William Safire’s death didn’t get a lot of media attention, it’s a perfect example of how American journalism is declining.

She used Google News as a reference:
“Today’s Google News has the wedding of reality TV star Khloe Kardashian and Los Angeles Lakers’ forward Lamar Odom getting more hits than the passing of New York Times columnist, William Safire.”

Google News is an automatic aggregator. Google doesn’t pick the stories! “We” the Google searchers do! This doesn’t mean the media isn’t covering Safire’s death, it means that the majority of people who use Google don’t really give a shit.

(You know, there are a lot of teenagers and kids out there who use Google and have no idea who Safire is.)

Journalism isn’t declining, it’s changing. Snow should know, she has a twitter. So technically, in her opinion, she’s actually contributing to the problem.

But before I end this post, here is some Snow advice from her story:

“If you want some advice for what to pay attention to in the news, read more about the “life deets” of self-proclaimed libertarian conservative Bill Safire and not about the wedding of Khloe and Lamar. Relevant knowledge is good and powerful.”

If I want fucking read about Khloe and Lamar’s wedding, I’m gonna fucking read it.

…your advice makes you sound like an ass

My favorite part of her article was the end:

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nancy-snow/william-safires-passing-a_b_302043.html

Obama called Kanye a “jackass”

He called him a “jackass”…off the record of course.

Good job Terry Moran of ABC for twittering that statement.

Here’s what he said:

Terry Moran Twitter

And here’s the audio:

CLICK ME!!!