DNC Press Release asks GOP to repudiate NRO Article (supposed Nazi reference)

DNC ^ | 1/26/04 | DNC

[sirshackleton]

Will GOP Chairman Rebuke Conservative's Vile Hate Speech?

Washington, DC — Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe today said he would be personally monitoring the Republican National Committee’s website anxiously waiting for Chairman Ed Gillespie to repudiate comments made by a right wing columnist comparing Senate Democrats to Nazis. Gillespie recently took to the airwaves to express outrage over an ad posted at the Moveon.org web site that used images of Adolph Hitler.

Despite giving the ad more play on the RNC web site than it had in its entire existence on MoveOn's site, Gillespie called it: "the worst and most vile form of political hate speech."

National Review writer Timothy Carney in a column on Friday, compared Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee to Nazis and Senator Orrin Hatch to Neville Chamberlain. It will be interesting to note whether Gillespie will be hit with another fit of outrage over political "hate speech." The Nazi charge stems from a decision by Hatch and the Republican leadership to allow the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms to investigate Republican theft of Democratic documents for more than a year.

"Ed, this kind of hateful and vile rhetoric has no place in politics. Now is the time to tell the American people if your sense of right and wrong is subject to partisanship," said Terry McAuliffe. "Democratic members of the Judiciary Committee have already been the victims of theft for over a year. They should not be subject to this sort of despicable Republican attack. Either Ed Gillespie and the Republicans will rebuke this sort of language or it will be crystal clear that the 'worst and most vile form of political hate speech' makes its home at the RNC." -end-

The line in the article of which Terry speaks, yet does not cite:

In Washington, dozens of conservatives literally make it their full-time jobs to fight for these nominees. How to they drag themselves to work each day when the pilot of the process looks like Neville Chamberlain?

[diotima]

ping

[cookcounty]

Can ANYBODY find the quote this is based on? Me confused.

[cwb]

The problem is that line is taken totally out of context from the original article. The word Nazi is never mentioned in the article. It only says this, referring to someone who is known for appeasement:

"How do they drag themselves to work each day when the pilot of the process looks like Neville Chamberlain?"

[cwb]

The word Nazi appears to have been added by McAwful.

[CaptRon]

How does the RNC owe an explanation for something in the NRO, except in McAuliffes microscopic little mind?

This is the kind of thing the Dems do all the time. They say something is true and keep hammering at it until it's takend for granted.

[cksharks]

Forrest Gump.

[Howlin]

Is there a link to Terry's apology about the moveon.org ad?

[sport]

The truth hurts.

If the National Socialists had the resources of the International Socialists [The democrat party], they could have taken control of Europe without firing a shot.

[jscd3]

Stupid is as stupid does.

Nazi is as Nazi does (or is it Nazi does like Nazi did...whatever)

[cksharks]

I am not a nazi I just believe you are stupid to say that the Republican party hates christians.You can post anything you want but I have the right to respond.

[cwb]

Maybe I misread it, but I thought he was comparing "both" parties as the Democrats and Nazis...not the republicans. No?

[jscd3]

the Republican party

1. I was talking about the Democratic Party, not the Republicans - that should be obvious to anyone not STUPID
2. I was talking about the National Party, not every single member of it - that should be obvious to anyone not STUPID
3. I was pointing out that there was not a dimes worth of difference between the National Democratic party platform and that of the Nazi party of the 1930s - an historical fact that you'ld have to be STUPID not to pick up on
4. I didn't say that the Democratic party hates Christians - I said that it, like the Nazis hates orthodox Christianity. You know, the religion with moral absolutes that doesn't put the State before God, doesn't approve of homosexuality as a positive life style choice, and won't accept abortion? If you don't think that the national Democratic party is anti-orthodox Christian in it's actions , well I guess you're just - oh, you can figure it out

By the way, the Nazi is and Nazi does was not directed at you; it was a play on your Gump reference directed at the actions of the national Democratic Party, and illustrating that actions and not press releases define the party. If you weren't so STUPID you probably would have realized that.

I'd be a little more careful about throwing around insults if I were you, bud...

[TommyDale]

"He thought they were comparing Bill Clinton to Wilt Chamberlain..."

ROFLOL! I just spewed coffee on my keyboard. I think this went over a lot of heads, but the double-double entendre is great!

Unfortunately, Bill Clinton comes up about 8,000 women and 12 inches short. And he can't play basketball, either. His nose does dribble, however.

[nickcarraway]

If I can cause one keyborad a day to be ruined, I'm happy.

I think one thing in common they had was exaggerating their legacy...

[TommyDale]

I gave them both WAY too much credit, if you know what I mean.