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'I did not compare Republicans to Nazis,' House Dem says of floor remark
The Hill ^ | 1/20/11 | Jordan Fabian

Posted on 01/20/2011 8:59:18 AM PST by markomalley

Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen (Tenn.) claimed Wednesday that he did not compare Republicans to Nazis during a floor speech this week, but reiterated many of the same points he made in that speech.

In his first television interview since his Tuesday-night speech, Cohen said he does not think most "reasonable people" would construe his words as a direct comparison between Nazis and the GOP.

But he maintained that Republican rhetorical tactics during the healthcare debate have resembled Nazi propaganda.

"I didn't compare the Republicans to Nazis," Cohen, who is Jewish, said on CNN's "John King, USA" program. "I compared the big lie. ... It was repeated over and over again. [Nazi propaganda minister Joseph] Goebbels was the master of political propaganda. He said, 'Repeat it. Make it short. Make it simple and repeat it over and over.' And that's what they've done."

The Tennessee Democrat said Tuesday night that Republicans "don't like the truth, so they summarily dismiss it. They say it's a government takeover of healthcare. A big lie, just like Goebbels. You say it enough and you repeat the lie, repeat the lie, repeat the lie until eventually people believe it. Like blood libel, that's the same kind of thing."

Cohen added that the Nazis' claims set the table for the Holocaust, which resulted in the killing of 6 million Jews and millions of others.

Cohen's floor speech drew heavy scrutiny, not only because he invoked the Nazis, but because he did so even with the heightened sensitivity to heated political rhetoric in the wake of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) on Jan. 8.


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1 posted on 01/20/2011 8:59:19 AM PST by markomalley
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To: markomalley

WTH? He most certainly did. Is he brain dead?


2 posted on 01/20/2011 9:00:54 AM PST by svcw (God doesn't show up in our time, but He shows up on time)
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To: markomalley

another extreme leftist racist flaming hatred across America


3 posted on 01/20/2011 9:01:46 AM PST by Kozy (Calling Al Gore)
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To: markomalley

So who do I believe? This jerk, or my lying eyes and ears?


4 posted on 01/20/2011 9:02:54 AM PST by MizSterious ("Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -JFK)
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To: svcw

“WTH? He most certainly did. Is he brain dead?”

No, he’s a lib-tard and therefore NEVER RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT HE SAYS . . . and, besides, it was PROBABLY TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT . . . get it????????


5 posted on 01/20/2011 9:02:59 AM PST by laweeks
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To: markomalley
OTOH, I WILL compare most democrats to the National SOCIALIST Party.
6 posted on 01/20/2011 9:03:43 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 730 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: markomalley

Hey, come on. Let’s give him a break. He didn’t say Republicans ARE Nazis, he simply said we are just like them.

Sheesh...people are so sensitive these days, looking for every teeny-tiny slight.

/s


7 posted on 01/20/2011 9:04:20 AM PST by rlmorel ("If this doesn't light your fire, Men, the pilot light's out!"...Coach Ed Bolin)
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To: markomalley
Cohen is a dishonest Democrat POS. I have to watch his sorry arse on TV a couple of times a week from the Memphis stations. He is a publicity seeking race baiting whore.
8 posted on 01/20/2011 9:04:40 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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What a shock...the man’s a damned liar, whooda thunkit?


9 posted on 01/20/2011 9:04:46 AM PST by Maverick68
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To: markomalley
'Repeat it. Make it short. Make it simple and repeat it over and over.'

"If you like your doctor and your insurance plan, you can keep it".

"The American medical system is broken and only the government can fix it."

"The Obama health care bill will lower insurance premiums, insure more people and reduce the deficit."

"There are no death panels."
10 posted on 01/20/2011 9:05:01 AM PST by Question Liberal Authority (Worst. Post-Racial. And Post-Partisan. Agent Of Hope And Change. EVER.)
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To: svcw
Is he brain dead?

Is this a trick question?

11 posted on 01/20/2011 9:07:16 AM PST by JaguarXKE (Life - It's 10 percent circumstances and 90 percent how you react to circumstances - Sarah Palin)
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To: markomalley

If this “Blood Libel” tribe member is truly seeking National Socialist spawns of Hitler he need look no farther than the nearest mirror.


12 posted on 01/20/2011 9:07:28 AM PST by PermaRag (the stock market will stop bleeding when those who manipulate it START bleeding)
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To: markomalley

When Dem’s say something then deny it, it didn’t happen.


13 posted on 01/20/2011 9:08:07 AM PST by ReverendJames (Only A Lawyer, A Painter, A Politician And The Media Can Change Black To White)
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To: markomalley

Yes, Commie Cohen, you did. If you believe you did not, you are even stupider than those of us who oppose you in this district already believed.


14 posted on 01/20/2011 9:13:32 AM PST by Ingtar (Together we go broke (from a Pookie18 post))
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To: markomalley

Yes he did. He referred to Republicans comparing them to Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister. He said the Repubs will repeat a “lie” over and over again until it becomes accepted.

In truth, it’s the Democrat media that practices this Goebbels tactic.


15 posted on 01/20/2011 9:13:55 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (My memory's not as sharp as it used to be. Also, my memory's not as sharp as it used to be.)
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To: svcw

Iv’e had personal runins with Steve. He’s just a media whore who by changing his story is just extending his fifteen minutes of fame.


16 posted on 01/20/2011 9:15:55 AM PST by Coldwater Creek (He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty Psalm 91:)
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To: markomalley

I didn’t compare them to Nazis. I just said that what they are doing is just like what the Nazis did. See the difference?

Only in the deluded mind of a leftist does that kind of logic make sense.


17 posted on 01/20/2011 9:16:21 AM PST by VRWCmember (Veritas vos Liberabit)
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To: Coldwater Creek

I’ve


18 posted on 01/20/2011 9:16:55 AM PST by Coldwater Creek (He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty Psalm 91:)
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To: svcw

> He most certainly did. Is he brain dead?

He’s a DemonRAT zombie, right?

Answer is in the question.


19 posted on 01/20/2011 9:18:33 AM PST by Westbrook (Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: markomalley

Au contraire! I heard him on the floor yesterday and he most certainly did.


20 posted on 01/20/2011 9:20:20 AM PST by Marty62 (Marty 60)
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