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?
Well, since Hitler wasn't a Christian, there was no need to call him that.
It's because Hitler wasn't a Christian.
He was, however, a National Socialist, so we correctly called him a Nazi.
The tangled mind of Rangel mangles logic.
Hey Charlie. so what are we suposed to call them ass munch?
Did he really make that promise? Outstanding. ....although I suspect the chances of him of honoring that promise are about the same as those of the Hollywood Lefties who pledged to leave the country after the '04 election if President Bush was re-elected.
Mr. Finklestein:
That's because, you dimwit, Hitler did not tie religion, except the extermination of Jews, in with his fascism. These ISLAMOFASCISTS are worse than Hitler. Their religious zeal combined with the fascism is a deeper, more sinister, evil.
As much as I like Charlie, his ignorance sometimes overwhelms him.
The proper label for these would-be killers is MAZIS. That means Muslims who act like Nazis. And if Charlie doesn't like that, he is welcome to KYA.
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Please see my most recent statement on running for Congress, here.
He was referring to CR, see post #16.
Hitler used Christianity in much the same way liberals do but I do believe you're correct about him never claiming Christianity for himself.
My grandfather dealt with nazis and former nazis immediately following WWII. One of the widely held SS beliefes was that "the master race" came from an ice moon from deep space.
Madison: please note that Finkelstein, who is also me, governsleast, wrote the article EXPOSING Rangel's statement!
This is really starting to get tiresome. Almost every time I write something exposing and criticizing a liberal's logic, people like you who don't bother to read the post before commenting accuse me of having made the original statement!
That's because he wasn't a Christian, you stupid f......
Howlin and I have had our differences over the years. But we both agreed that this was as good a reason to vote pubbie in November as we had seen.
Hitler led the German National Socialist Workers' Party. I guess the current leader of the American National Socialist Workers' Party is Hillary Clinton.
Whoops! LOL I read some of the article, but didn't catch that it was in the third-person. Sorry about that, Mr. Finkelstein. :)
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