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Rush also noted that Obama’s Friday press conference did not include a single question about the events in Wisconsin, which makes clear the actions taken by Governor Walker were a defeat for Obama, media acolytes and Democrats in general. The absence of comment is a time honored political strategy to deal with unpleasant events. Nearly 70 years ago Dr. Joseph Goebbels, the gifted political strategist of the Nazi regime, managed an allied political initiative as follows:

“A much more clever form of propaganda against the Reich has been proposed by the United States. The idea is not to go against the German people, but against Nazism. I sense a certain danger. Fortunately the enemy propaganda is not so unified and consistent as to be able to stick to such a propaganda slogan for a period of years. If this were the case, we would face great difficulties every time we were under a new, heavy strain.

If I were on the enemy side, I should from the very first day on have adopted the slogan of fighting against Nazism, but not against the German people. That’s how Chamberlain began on the first day of the war, but thank God, the English didn’t follow through. I gave orders that the German press is not to publish or discuss turns of speech such as are being used increasingly in the American press. One should simply not talk about these things. Even if you argue about them you nevertheless spread them.”

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The quote comes from an entry in The Goebbels Diaries 1942-1943. Dr. Goebbels prepared brutally honest accounts, when not filtering events through his own malevolent delusions. Such diary accounts of private musings contrast sharply with memoirs providing public images of a person’s life. Some may want to craft an analogy between the two administrations, but I couldn’t possibly comment.