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Newly hired Grand Valley State football assistant suspended after praising Hitler in interview
Yahoo Sports ^ | Jan 27, 2020 | Sam Cooper

Posted on 01/27/2020 3:28:09 PM PST by The people have spoken

KV: So you graduated from Drury with a degree in History, you’re a history guy. If you could have dinner with three historical figures, living or dead, who would they be? And I’m ruling out football figures.

MB: This is probably not going to get a good review, but I’m going to say Adolf Hitler. It was obviously very sad and he had bad motives, but the way he was able to lead was second-to-none. How he rallied a group and a following, I want to know how he did that. Bad intentions of course, but you can’t deny he wasn’t a great leader.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Michigan
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To: chajin

A great film...one of my favorites.


61 posted on 01/27/2020 4:33:47 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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To: The people have spoken

“you can’t deny he wasn’t a great leader”

You got that right.


62 posted on 01/27/2020 4:35:38 PM PST by babble-on
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

Some years ago, PBS showed some home movies of Hitler with a group of children. He appeared to have very good rapport with them. He was bouncing one of them on his knee, and the rest were sitting down, listening attentively. Occasionally he would crack a joke and they would all laugh.

I couldn’t help but think what if he had gone into child care instead of politics?


63 posted on 01/27/2020 4:37:39 PM PST by scrabblehack
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To: The people have spoken

You really have to wonder why people open themselves up to this kind of crap. It takes a certain kind of stupid. He coulda said Justin Bieber and nothing would have happened.


64 posted on 01/27/2020 4:40:17 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

“It is essential to “know your enemy”.”
_______________________________________

Many people think it’s just a comment to be uttered in some circles to appear to be a deep thinker.

They do not comprehend or accept that one doesn’t have to like or admire an evil person to want to understand their thought process.

While there are subjects of which we don’t tolerate material in our house (sexual nature violence being one, for example) we still want to be able to communicate with rational thought about why they are bad.

Not having the knowledge available or worse having it and deliberately teaching it falsely is one reason the youth/young adults and even some much older folks are so foolish in their expectations of life.

Hope I didn’t put my foot in my mouth.

I do tend to do that, so often.


65 posted on 01/27/2020 4:41:48 PM PST by Notthereyet (NotThereYet)
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To: The people have spoken

He did NOT “praise Hitler” in an interview! Hitler was one of three people he said he would like to meet, in response to a reporter’s question. He said, although he did not admire him, he would like to ask him how he managed to rally so many people to his cause. No healthy intellectual curiosity allowed nowadays?


66 posted on 01/27/2020 4:44:53 PM PST by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose.)
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To: The people have spoken

I think Larry King was once asked who he would like to interview most and he said it was Hitler. When he was asked why, he said he that was the one question he had for Hitler. “Why?”


67 posted on 01/27/2020 4:49:21 PM PST by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: JBW1949

“ Jim Jones got a lot of people to follow him... “

So did the Waco wacko


68 posted on 01/27/2020 4:51:02 PM PST by Reynoldo
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To: nuconvert
There’s just no good way to put a positive spin on Hitler.

He had a cool mustache......

69 posted on 01/27/2020 4:51:56 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (I want an impeachment pen)
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To: BenLurkin

It is ignorance, not knowledge, that makes enemies of men.


70 posted on 01/27/2020 4:52:58 PM PST by SteelCowboy
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To: Notthereyet

You didn’t at all. She also has a copy of “Das Capital”. As I said....she’s a firm believer in “knowing your enemy” and is a firm believer in Christ.


71 posted on 01/27/2020 5:05:04 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Progressives" (elitist communists) "Love you to death".)
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To: SteelCowboy

You are 100% spot on. Hard to get more ignorant than a Nazi.


72 posted on 01/27/2020 5:12:36 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

If asked about historic figures you would have dinner with, pick a “safe” choice, such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Eleanor Roosevelt, Barack Obama, FDR — someone who the liberals won’t attack you for wanting to meet.

The nuance of wanting to meet an evil or even a conservative figure is lost.on the liberal mind. In their mind, wanting to meet and dine with someone equals admiration and endorsement/approval of such a person.


73 posted on 01/27/2020 5:14:24 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I think I would pick Aristotle, Livy, and St. Peter. Interpreters to be supplied, I assume. I would ask Aristotle about Greek history, philosophy and science, Livy about Roman history, and St. Peter to fill in the gaps in what we know about the life of Jesus and about the early years of the Christian church.


74 posted on 01/27/2020 5:31:34 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: The people have spoken

“Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?”


75 posted on 01/27/2020 5:32:11 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: The_Media_never_lie
The world would have been far better if Hitler had been a GOOD painter.

Or Fidel a good pitcher.

76 posted on 01/27/2020 5:33:35 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: The people have spoken
He didn't "praise" Hitler. He said he wanted to meet him, JFK and Christopher Columbus in a study of "leadership".

Dumb to EVER mention Adolf, but GOOD GRIEF!

77 posted on 01/27/2020 5:35:08 PM PST by montag813
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To: Skywise

And Osama Bin Laden built hospitals.


78 posted on 01/27/2020 5:35:20 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: CheshireTheCat
I think Larry King was once asked who he would like to interview most and he said it was Hitler. When he was asked why, he said he that was the one question he had for Hitler. “Why?”

Read Mein Kampf, Dummkopf!

79 posted on 01/27/2020 5:36:30 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: akalinin
LOL! Ole George Takei is definitely one with The Body.
80 posted on 01/27/2020 5:37:17 PM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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