NBC Relays View of Rumsfeld as "Neo-Nazi," and Raises Mein Kampf

MRC ^ | 10:30am EDT, Tuesday May 11, 2004 | BrentBaker

[fight_truth_decay]

The broadcast and cable network newscasts led once again Monday night with multiple stories on the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal and calls for Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld to resign as all touted how the International Committee of the Red Cross reports from last year prove the abuse was widespread, not corrected and long-known by top officials. NBC went so far as to air a claim that Rumsfeld reminds one Egyptian journalist of a "neo-Nazi character" and how an Arab businessman thinks U.S. treatment of prisoners "is not Jeffersonian democracy. It's more like a lesson from Hitler's book, Mein Kampf."

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From Egypt, NBC's Fred Francis found everyone the world over says that Rumsfeld must go. Before quoting an Arab businessman who analogized U.S. behavior to Mein Kampf, Francis cited a woman he described as "a moderate journalist" and highlighted a clip of her charging of Rumsfeld: "He is reminding me of a sort of neo-Nazi character who's coming back to life and anything which is not American is wrong."

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[KellyAdmirer]

Well, Egypt really shouldn't be accepting billions of dollars in aid from us each year then, right? I mean, a country has to have its principles and all.

[Bringbackthedraft]

The leftist media are like hungry piranha. One drop of blood and they go into an eating frenzy. Anything no mater how small so long a they can use it to gain power they will amplify it to the 10th power.

[Redbob]

"Eqyptian Journalist?"

You mean like for Al-Jahzeera or some such "media" outlet?

Small wonder some pissant Arab wouldn't like Rumsfeld; he hates being reminded that he lives in a society that's a hundred years behind ours and falling back farther by the day.

[fight_truth_decay]

This is my source to Fred Francis of NBC :

Hi Friends,

Just to say Hellow and to let you know that I am still around. This latest fiasco smells to me. It smells really bad. Abuses there seems to have been, but who took the photos, and the timing, isn't it too convenient? But you must know this: All this has not shaken my support for the liberation one little bit, nor my absolute conviction of the justice and nobility of the "Project". If some of you have seen fit to appologize to us about the behaviour of some of your "scum"; we must also appologize to you for the behaviour of so many of our "scum".

Salaam

Alaa

[HardStarboard]

NBC and all the other me-too alphabet soup media outlets would love to get rid of Rummy.

He's smarter than all their reporters/columnists combined. They just don"t know how to handle him! He makes them look like fools every time they interview him.

Gotta Love The Guy

[RightWhale]

everyone the world over says that Rumsfeld must go

I don't care whether Rumsfeld stays or goes, but what is the value of opinions 'the world over'? The world is a worthless, incoherent ethical jungle.

[.cnI redruM]

I'm sure that champion of Human Rights Ra-meses II is turning over in his grave so fast that mummification tape is coming loose.

[cake_crumb]

Egypt? Wasn't that bogus pic of GIs raping an Iraqi woman published in Egypt?

[cake_crumb]

"If some of you have seen fit to appologize to us about the behaviour of some of your "scum"; we must also appologize to you for the behaviour of so many of our 'scum'. "

An apology? Why wasn't it reported? (rhetorical question)

[NeoCaveman]

C went so far as to air a claim that Rumsfeld reminds one Egyptian journalist of a "neo-Nazi character" and how an Arab businessman thinks U.S. treatment of prisoners "is not Jeffersonian democracy. It's more like a lesson from Hitler's book, Mein Kampf."

It always cracks me up to hear people whose only goal in life it seems to kill Jews, refer to every one else as Nazis. I think it is called projection.

[sheik yerbouty]

Egyptian journalists remind me of nazis..

[subterfuge]

"NBC went so far as to air a claim that Rumsfeld reminds one Egyptian journalist of a "neo-Nazi character"

Well everybody knows that when you invoke the name 'Nazi' you have lost the arguement.

[mrustow]

Please forgive me for the interruption and for the typeface, but we need all FReepers, their friends, lovers, enemies, relatives, spouses, exes, acquaintances, strangers, debtors, creditors, colleagues, bosses and subordinates to sign The Federalist's petition to save Don Rumsfeld!

Thank you!

RUMMY Petition

We now return to the regularly scheduled thread.

[SpinyNorman]

Compare and contrast:

What happened at that Iraqi prison.

The atrocities perpetrated by Saddam at the same place.

The atrocities of Adolph Hitler.

The atrocities perpetrated by the good folks of Fallujah.

A list of whatever crimes the inmates at that prison committed.

Throw in a good Turkish or Saudi prison for good measure.


Tell me what is worse. Then allow the Iraqi prisoners to select which method they would prefer to be incarcerated and interrogated under.

[Reeses]

Godwin's Law (variant): the party invoking the Nazis as a debating tactic in any argument where there is not some direct relevance automatically loses.

Read about Godwin's Law on FR: here

[Reeses]

What's cool about using www.faganfinder.com to search Google is you can specify a specific date range. I did an OR search of FR: (hitler | nazi | nazis | adolf) and Google returned 2,440 references just during the last 10 days. Hitler gets thrown around a whole lot on the internet and in the media.

[rightwingcrazy]

...reminds one Egyptian journalist of a "neo-Nazi character" and how an Arab businessman thinks U.S. treatment of prisoners "is not Jeffersonian democracy. It's more like a lesson from Hitler's book, Mein Kampf."

Considering the source, this probably was meant as a compliment.

[dr_who_2]

A-men.

[Graymatter]

Done!

Now, does anybody know what kind of license the alphabet networks have, to do what they do? Because I'd like to see those licenses pulled.