Posted on 08/11/2006 7:03:41 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
August 11, 2006 - 21:47
It doesn't take much to offend liberals' exquisite sensitivities. The latest? Referring to Islamofascists as . . . Islamofascists. Chris Matthews got the ball rolling on this evening's Hardball. But Charlie Rangel upped the ante to the max, managing to impugn Christians and Jews in the bargain. Fortunately, GOP Congressman Dan Lungren had the guts to call Rangel on it.
Matthews got things started by challenging Lungren: "Would you include Hezbollah in that group [of Islamofascists]? Would you include Hamas, they are they enemies of Israel. Are they also enemies of ours? Are they also fascists because they have a dispute with Israel? Anybody who is against us is a fascist now."
Chris, are you really asking whether Hezbollah, who killed 241 of our servicemen in Lebanon, is our enemy?
Rangel sent things to the moon a bit later with this line: "You take Islamic and you call them fascists, you call them radical. You never called Hitler a Christian fascist. This is insulting to an entire religion."
Lungren wouldn't be intimidated: "No it's not that at all, and that is absolute nonsense to say that."
Rangel wasn't finished: "We got Christian killers, we got Jewish killers, and we never identify them by religion. What you're doing is demonizing."
Demonizing, Charlie? What would you call the people who wanted to blow up thousands of innocents civilians over the Atlantic this week?
Replace the swastika with "ACLU" for a more contemporary flavor...
Hitler was no Christian. He considered Christianity to be a "gutter" religion.
Hitler was more of a Pagan Socialist Fascist
IMO Charles rangel is one of the smartest members of the Congressional Black caucus. What does that say for the rest of them? Well you tell me.
Exactly! Good post...
Charlie, just STFU you ignoramus!
*** Anyone in his district with enough sense to wipe his own dupa must want to tar and feather the goof.****
I think you would find there arent many in Charlies district with enough sense to wipe their own Dupa.
How do you think Charlie has stayed there so long. He is a racist elected by racists.
Blacks will always be victims as long as the Charlie Rangels of the world keep telling them they are.
It hurts that I share the same CHRISTIAN name as Mangle.
No, Charlie, we called the Third Reich "Germans". Was that an insult to Germans? What did you call the Koreans when you were in Korea?
Hey Chuckie, In your case its Marxist Liberal.
Rangle, you useful idiot.
Hitler probably was born Roman Catholic. But, he disliked Christianity in general. Just like so many liberal democrats today, many of them were born "Christian", but they don't like to be called one.
Me too. I'm going to scream.
Yes, Hitler was baptized Catholic. His mother was devout. But his record is quite clear: he hated Christianity and wanted to destroy it.
He was born a Roman Catholic. But as an adult, he despised Christianity.
...and rangel is an islamofacist (terrorist) supporter, a party of traitors exalted member.
Well, Ol' Charlie has said (and you probably read it on this website last week or heard it elsewhere) that if the Dems do not take control of the House in the mid-term elections, he's retiring.
I think we need to help him do that.
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