Posted on 01/21/2011 6:55:00 AM PST by laotzu
Of course he’s not sorry. As Ed noted this morning, not only has Cohen proved himself fully capable of vicious demagoguery before, but the last time he stooped this low he tossed in a little joke about McCain looking like a Vietcong POW again when he stood next to Palin. That’s the mentality you’re dealing with here — exhibit 8,579 in what a sleazy fraud the left’s ostentatious handwringing over “civility” is.
“I wasn’t trying to say, never would say, haven’t said and wouldn’t say that the Republicans are akin to the party that he [Goebbels] was a part of, but they [Republicans] did lie and they’ve said the lie over and over again,” Cohen said.
“The fact is that the government takeover of health care is a lie,” he said.
“I don’t think I was comparing the Republicans to Goebbels. I was saying that lies are lies and Goebbels was the great perpetrator of lies and that’s a danger, and if you look at Goebbels you can see the lie that he told about Jews which he constantly did, became considered fact in Germany that the Jews were evil, and people got involved and didn’t stand up.”…
“I think civility is not lying, and if you can’t come up and say that somebody is lying when they’re lying, then the lie becomes the truth. That’s not uncivil to say somebody lied,” he said.
But, after several questions about the appropriateness of evoking a Nazi to make that point, Cohen did say that “there are no Nazis in Congress, there are some liars, but no Nazis.”
Just so we’re clear: Lying is uncivil, but reaching for and belaboring a comparison between your opponents and the Nazi propaganda minister who drummed up support for the Final Solution is just speaking “truth to power” or whatever the progressive catchphrase of the moment might be. As for his underlying point about O-Care being a government takeover of health care, true enough — there’ll be a lottttt more government interference in the marketplace now, as even the law’s proponents concede, but the full takeover will have to wait until costs start going up and insurers start imploding and the left starts pushing for the public option and inevitably single-payer to “fix the problem.” In fact, below you’ll find Rachel Maddow nudging Pelosi just last night about ObamaCare being something to “build on” if it survives the GOP’s repeal endeavors. It’s intended to bring about a government takeover of health care down the road, but we’re not quite all the way there yet ergo the Republicans are guilty of a Big Lie worthy of Josef Goebbels. Good work, Steve.
Speaking of big lies, watch out for Nancy asserting here that if the Democrats hadn’t passed ObamaCare they might have lost even more seats in November. That’s the left’s old “effectiveness” argument in action — that if Obama and Pelosi took up health-care reform and then abandoned it without passing it a la Clinton, the base would have been so dispirited that no one would have turned out to vote. Could be, but note the false choice posed there in what to do once they had started work on the bill. A radical alternative not considered: Obama could have declared early on that they shouldn’t start work on the bill at all, that health-care reform should wait until the economic recovery had begun in earnest and the deficit was under control. That would have won him and Pelosi a ton of goodwill from independents by proving that their priorities were in line with voters’. Instead the Democrats went the way they did, and Pelosi, at least, will apparently never forgive the electorate for the result.
"I want to be clear that I never called Republicans Nazis," said the Tennessee lawmaker in a statement issued Thursday. "I regret that anyone in the Jewish community, my Republican colleagues or anyone else was offended by the portrayal of my comments."
Mr. Cohen said it was "disappointing" his comments have been used to distract from the health care reform debate.
Yes, cohen, you did call us nazi’s..and by using the name Goebbels, you Lost the argument per GODWIN’S LAW..
Unless of course we start rounding up Liberals and putting them in CAMPS.. then you might have a possible comparison..
until then ...STFU!!!!
Secondly, the reference to Goebbels is dated-- why not try a more contemporary liar-- like President Clinton?
(Oops, can't do that, can we?)
Double standard again in our sterling main street media. Think I will read “China Daily” instead of any US news paper. Perhaps it will be more balanced.
This clown was ELECTED to office. It gives us all an idea of how bad things really are. Undoing this nightmare....???
I dunno.
Our only hope is most of the people in this country don’t know what a “congress” is. So, hopefully, they won’t be ready when the SHTF.
That end of Tennessee is a real mess...
This fool gave the address at my granddaughters college graduation. His only advice to the grads was to be kind to their pets. And, no I’m not kidding.
I’ve noticed that the other end is well on its way as well.
There’s an easy way to find out if the lib congresscritters want an eventual complete takeover of American healthcare: strap all of them to a polygraph, and let’s see the responses. I’d bet the great majority lie awake at nights dreaming of the day when they totally control healthcare from their desks in Washington. It’s the nature of the beast...the liberal beast, that is.
In honor of Cohen a reminder:
Leftists love hyperbole, and they love accusing their ideological opponents of crimes of humanity for opposing their agenda. However, they have a particular affinity for Hitler/Nazi metaphors. This is not just because Hitler and Nazism were evil and were responsible for the deaths of millions. After all, communism and its practitioners around the globe have been responsible for far more murder, oppression, and miserable living conditions than the relatively small-fry one-off historical atrocity of Nazism.
Leftists love Hitler references because of the meme that Nazism was a “right-wing” ideology.
True, Nazism did have elements of fascism, which has been associated with the ideology of several other 20th-century dictators. But if leftists think they can get away with popularizing the notion that Nazism more closely mirrors contemporary conservatism than leftism, they’d better hope people don’t look too closely at Nazi ideology and start drawing their own conclusions.
The Nazis’ 25-point plan contained such limited-government recommendations as:
“That all unearned income, and all income that does not arise from work, be abolished”
“[A]ll personal profit arising from the war must be regarded as treason to the people. We therefore demand the total confiscation of all war profits”
“We demand the nationalization of all trusts”
“We demand profit-sharing in large industries”
“We demand a generous increase in old-age pensions”
“The State has the duty to help raise the standard of national health by providing maternity welfare centers, by prohibiting juvenile labor, by increasing physical fitness through the introduction of compulsory games and gymnastics, and by the greatest possible encouragement of associations concerned with the physical education of the young”
“We demand the abolition of the regular army and the creation of a national (folk) army”
In case it’s not obvious, these planks overlap with 90% of the platform of the modern Democratic Party.
More can be found at: http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/01/21/stuff-leftist-people-like-21-30-aka-top-10-things-leftists-like-continued-1/4/
So, what is the treatment for foot-in-mouth disease???
I suggest he study his Torah— I believe the part relevant is in what we sometimes call the Decalogue /or Ten Commandmments
found in Exodus 20:16-I may be wrong but I believe there is no significant difference between the Hebrew and the modern English translation from it. Thou shalt not bear false witness against your neighbor (is one translation) I seem to remember a college professor who happened to be Jewish that taught us Never speak in generalities suck talk generally proves you don’t know what you talk of.
It’s beyond comprehension how people from the great state of Tennessee can vote for a despicable human being as this guy Cohen to represent them. Davy Parker must be turning over in his grave.
I notice that the ‘green agenda’ is being introduced into East Tennessee Christian schools...all based on the Scriptures; of course...
Yipes!
His district is 60% black.
This fool gave the address at my granddaughters college graduation. His only advice to the grads was to be kind to their pets. And, no I’m not kidding.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.