Rahm Emanuel is “Al Capone,” says Mark Levin

NewsReal Blog ^ | August 10, 2009 | Kathy Shaidle

[HorowitzianConservative]

Leave it to Democratic Party operatives to describe citizen protesters as acting like “organized mobs.” Such an unimaginative contradiction in terms surely indicates a new level of desperation in the liberal camp.

Then again, the same smirking liberal pointmen introduced the phrase “tea-bagging” to a general population heretofore blessedly ignorant of that particular sexual fetish. (Shamefully, even Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin has used the expression in public. It’s another indication of the degree to which civil discourse has degenerated — no small thanks to Durbin’s own comparison of U.S. soldiers to “Nazis” on the Senate floor.

But back to the “mob” meme: If liberals want ordinary people thinking about “mobs,” the type that more readily springs to mind these days are those of the “Sopranos” variety.

Appearing on FOX News at part of Sean Hannity’s Friday night “Freedom Concert” special, talk radio host Mark Levin said that President Obama’s staffers were the ones behaving like mobsters: “[Obama's] got Al Capone there, who is Rahm Emanuel [the Chief of Staff infamous for his ruthlessly aggressive political tactrics]; he’s got Meyer Lansky, who is [Obama political consultant] David Axelrod (…) Who is behaving like they’re a mob? It’s them.”

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[the invisib1e hand]

Rahm Emanuel is “Al Capone,” says Mark Levin

That may be generous.

In any event, I'm of the opinion that, next to his brother Ezekiel, Rahm looks like Mahatma Ghandi.

[devane617]

Please, leave AL Capone out of this. Rahm slimes his name...

[PhilDragoo]

DEADLY DOCTORS O ADVISERS WANT TO RATION CARE

[Radl]

At least Al believed in God.

[the invisib1e hand]

At least the mob has scruples.

[Zman516]

I’m thinking Emanual is closer to Reinhard Heydrich.

[RummyChick]

There is no mistaking that Rahm’s brother thinks like Hitler did-get ride of the useless eaters.

[McGruff]

Nah.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

This little pantywaist is not going to screw my country over!

[wally_bert]

He also believed in profit and accountability.

[coalman]

he is al’s boss in the flesh,he is always lurking on someone’s shoulder whispering his evil plans

[GOPJ]

The Chicago way is pure intimidation and corruption... kinda fits...

[Radl]

Yes, it was the way he went about it that seems to be the problem:)

[Cheburashka]

Al Capone was not a ballerina boy.

[paulycy]

[PhilDragoo]

I’m thinking Emanuel is closer to Reinhard Heydrich.

[wally_bert]

His methods were a bit extreme.

[McGruff]

You're good. We're gonna need your talents for the foreseeable future.

[QualityMan]

Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich...

Excellent comparison.

Heydrich died at the hands of partisans in PRague in 1942, if my memory serves...a despicable piece of human refuse.