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?
Hitler wasn't driven by exhortations from Christianity to expunge the Jews. He didn't try to couch his hatred in religous terms. His "religion," if any such thing could be said to motivate him, was a hodgepodge of Gothic paganism, Germanic mythology, and Nietzschian humanism.
The SS didn't perform Catholic rituals or invoke the name of God when they committed their atrocities. They acted in the name of Der Fuhrer.
Contrast that with the bombers -- would-be and successful -- who die with "Allahu Akhbar" on their lips.
Nice try, Chuck. But once again, equivalency arguments are strong only if you think them through.
I retained some little respect for Rangel over the agonizing years because of his meritorious service in Korea.
Now, Mr. Rangel, you have crossed over to join your fellow Democrat John Conyers in drooling senility.
Folks, meet the Drooling Twins - Conyers and Rangel.
Yes...I find it funny that so many people are praising or damning Bush for calling them Islamofascists...but, he has been saying this for a long time!!
"It is hard to believe this man is a US Congressman."
Congressman Rangle and Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney are street thugs.
Originally I had "Re: The title" as the opener, but changed it so no one would get insulted. LOL
I'm always afraid of insulting the poster. BTW, I'm a "she."
ROFL...He's already welched on that, Hannity pinned him down and all he could do was stutter and stammer.
Sauropad,
Rangel is the moron. I posted exactly that right underneath my first post so no one would make the mistake you did.
Rangel is one of many Demofacists.
I'm about to sign off and turn on to Los Angeles AM radio 790AM where they are at 7:30 5 minutes from now will be interviewing a former PLO terrorist live that converted to Christianity.
They are going to talk about Islam in general.
Listen on the net.
http://www.kabc.com/home.asp
Click: Listen Live
There was an article posted here this week about that; anyone have the link?
It bears no resemblance to the actual bible.
(Pod's wife.)
How can anyone be so f-ing stupid? Oh, right, he's a
Democrap!
Could it be because Hitler wasn't a Christian, but an occultist?
Mr. Hitler was neither a Christian nor a Fascist. It would be totally inaccurate to refer to him as such.
He was a pagan and a national socialist.
Mussolini was the head of the Fascist party, not Hitler.
Rangel is just another moron shooting off his mouth.
His re-writing of the Ten Commandments with honor your Fuhrer above all else was a good one!
I am being very careful to let you know I am posting about CR's remarks regarding Hitler not being called a Christian Facist. Two things wrong with that question of his, firt of all Hitler was NOT a Christian, secondly he was not a facist but a socialistic dictator. Thirdly Mr. Rangel I didn't see Hiler's name in the list of people who were arrested yesterday by the Brits and Pakistan, I did see his name listed among those who flew airplanes into the WTC and the Pentagon and a nameless field in PA.
So take your idiotic views and please leave the senate. I can't believe how these stupid brainless jerks get elected!
Hope you got the hint this wasn't aimed at you Governsleast!:)and thanks for posting it!
I believe if you check into it, you will find that Hitler was an occultist, in the complete sense of the word. Read the testimony of some of his closest confidants testifying at the Neuremburg trial. It is very revealing about Hitlers occult ties.
Peace bro.
I'll take you up on the Chivas!
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