Posted on 04/21/2019 10:20:09 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
The latest attempt to brand Trump a Nazi has two American artists rolling over in their graves.
On Thursday, a New York Post reporter tweeted that President Donald Trump played the song "Edelweiss" at the White House. The New York Times's White House correspondent, Maggie Haberman, suggested the song was a Nazi anthem, inspiring rightful backlash on Twitter. She seemed to stick with this false view, even after she was called out on it.
"'Edelweiss' was being played as we walked into the [White House]," Nikki Schwab, the Post reporter, tweeted.
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“Edelweiss” was being played as we walked into the @WhiteHouse
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Flabbergasted, Haberman responded, "Does...anyone at that White House understand the significance of that song?"
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Does...anyone at that White House understand the significance of that song?
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“Edelweiss” was being played as we walked into the @WhiteHouse
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This tweet suggested that Trump was outing himself as pro-Nazi by playing the song at the White House.
When Ben Shapiro responded with a mocking tweet, Haberman doubled down, saying, "So you're going with no, then."
Twitter screenshot of Maggie Haberman's response to Ben Shapiro.
As National Review's Alexandra DeSanctis noted, "Edelweiss" originated in The Sound of Music (1965), an American musical about the ravages of the Nazi rise to power in Austria. The song was a tribute to pre-Nazi Austria and a rebuke to the Nazis.
Where did Haberman get the idea that the song supports Nazis? The answer may lie with Amazon's hit show The Man in the High Castle. That show repurposed "Edelweiss" as a creepy lament — in an alternate universe where the Nazis win World War II and conquer a third of America.
Amazon's recasting of the song was a brilliant artistic move, and it gives extra heft to the show's opening credits. But it may have convinced viewers that "Edelweiss" is a pro-Nazi song, rather than an anti-Nazi one. Indeed, it is plausible that Haberman's outrage at Trump playing the song is the result of Amazon's show.
The Washington Examiner's Seth Mandel noted this connection.
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They think Edelweiss is a Nazi anthem because it's on a TV show that has Nazis and they're also speed reading a super important report into presidential misconduct and you can absolutely trust their judgment and their depth and breadth of knowledge
Alexandra DeSanctis
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Mainstream press insinuating that “Edelweiss” is a Nazi anthem because the WH played it has me so much more annoyed right now than the left-wing spin on the report. The more I think about it the more irritated I get. It’s the perfect example of what’s wrong with our media.
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The Daily Wire's Elisha Krauss said Rodgers and Hammerstein may be "rolling over in their graves."
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Has no one ever seen the Sound of Music?????? Edelweiss is like the Austrian's rallying cry AGAINST the Nazis... It's like the Von Trapp Family's anthem AGAINST the Nazis... Are Rodgers and Hammerstein rolling over in their graves???
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Naturally, Haberman is distracted by the Mueller report. Even so, she should have known better.
The Lindsay and Crouse script provides the metaphor of the simple edelweiss wildflower as a symbol of the Austria that Captain von Trapp, Maria, and their children knew would live on, in their hearts, (wikipedia)
Habermen is a dumbass.
Hey Maggie the song was written by Rogers and Hammerstein who were Jewish for the play “Sound of Music” the flower is the national flower of Austria but the song was written by the two songsters long after world war two. As usual you are LIBERAL STUPID which seems to be a common thread!
These people see evil everywhere. Maybe they’re projecting.
These people see evil everywhere. Maybe they’re projecting.
> Anyone who has seen “The Sound of Music” knows that this song was an anthem IN DEFIANCE of the nazis. <
Absolutely! The song was a bold statement of freedom. Austria should remain free, and not be a part of Hitler’s Germany. Just like the song ‘La Marseillaise’ was in the movie ‘Casablanca’.
Unfortunately too many Austrians were more than happy to join the Third Reich. Most of the most brutal members of the SS were Austrian.
It’s because she can’t speak Austrian.
Herr Hitler was Austrian not German.
Maggie is a turdbrain!
Which is why they are known as “The Loony Left”
Real living Communists pose a present day threat to modern American.
But she is pretending to be concerned about fictional Nazis.
You may be right about her projecting.
Maggie’s not used to writing by herself. Most of her reporting for the NYT is done collaboratively. This snafu on her part begs the question, does her name appear in joint bylines as a token female for the paper? Is she an affirmative action hire?
> Unfortunately too many Austrians were more than happy to join the Third Reich. <
That’s true enough. But in defense of Austria, almost every nation in western and southern Europe had it’s own cadre of home-grown Nazis. Those folks just couldn’t wait to become associated with the Reich.
Austria often calls itself Hitler’s first victim. I think I’ll give them that. But perhaps there should be an asterisk after that claim.
She and the NYT are constantly sowing division yet tell everyone that Trump is the one that is dividing.
Even in the movie, it was a song that bespoke Austrian resistance to anschluss, a stance that got Georg von Trapp in trouble with the local gauleiter. In other words, it was ANTI-NAZI, you uninformed idiots!
I take it dummy Marxist Maggie Haberman was not referring to the song’s association with a patriotic, Christian family from Austria, who were persecuted by Nazis in real life. (I have a feeling the dummy Marxist also doesn’t realize Edelweiss is a type of flower... She’s complaining about an ecological song.)
Is “Mueller” a Russian name, or is it Nazi?
Indeed! :-)
What a feckless cvnt. Sheesh
It has been observed that the Anschluss occupation of Austria by the Nazis was not a rape, but a wedding.
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