Posted on 02/24/2016 7:21:03 PM PST by Kaslin
What a surprise it's not that ex-MSNBC action hero Ed Schultz just served up a textbook example of why Godwin's Law -- he who first invokes the Nazis in making an argument, loses -- still applies.
When he's not toiling away at his new Kremlin-backed Russia Today "news" show, Schultz does a podcast weekdays that's available at YouTube and his website.
Right out of the gate in Monday's podcast, Schultz mocked GOP frontrunner Donald Trump's repeated claims that, once elected, he'll build a wall to secure the border with Mexico -- while getting Mexico to pay for it.
Based on that, Schultz could not resist a lazy, gratuitous comparison of Trump to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, one of the worst mass murderers in history --
I'm going to call Donald Trump from now on and I'll ask my friend (and upcoming guest) Mike Papantonio (lawyer and co-host of the Ring of Fire radio show) in a few moments, what does he think about this -- we'll just call him the Maginot Line candidate. I mean, he keeps talking about this wall and how somebody else is going to pay for it. Uh, this is kinda what Hitler did. Seriously! Hitler tried to get restitution from other countries because he thought Germany got screwed in World War I.
Schultz gets it half right, which isn't a bad average for him on any given day. Yes, Hitler fervently believed Germany "got screwed" in the First World War -- but Schultz departs from reality with his claim about "restitution from other countries." More accurately, Hitler upon taking power in 1933 ended German reparations to the Allies as mandated by the Treaty of Versailles (and which weren't finally paid until 2010).
Speaking before the Reichstag in May 1933, Hitler condemned the peace settlement for imposing draconian burdens that wrecked the German economy --
The Treaty of Versailles is to blame for having inaugurated a period in which financial calculations appear to destroy economic reason.
Germany has faithfully fulfilled the obligations imposed upon her, in spite of their intrinsic lack of reason and the obviously suicidal consequences of this fulfillment.
The international economic crisis is the indisputable proof of the correctness of this statement.
More of Schultz's amusing revisionism --
All right, so, the Maginot Line -- we all know what that is. That's the concrete fortifications that the French put in along the French and Switzerland border because they were afraid that Germany, or any other army from the east, was going to invade.
Which turned out to be a prophetic and legitimate fear on the part of the French --
And what these concrete fortifications were going to do was give the French army an opportunity to get their act together. While they're under attack, the Maginot Line, these massive fortifications would slow people down. So, this is what Trump is talking about! I've heard him a few times say, well, it's not really a wall but it's going to be a wall -- you know what, he's the Maginot Line candidate! This is what this guy's gonna build!
Trump wants secure borders for the United States while limiting American military involvement abroad. Hitler sought ever-expanding borders for Germany while maniacally projecting its military power abroad. A distinction that's lost on Schultz.
By the way, Andre Maginot, he was a French minister of war. He was named, the Maginot Line was named after him because he came up with that technique in World War I.
And perhaps the line would have held had the Germans not gone around it when invading France in 1940 by attacking the Low Countries to the north and violating the neutrality of Belgium and Luxembourg, while the Luftwaffe flew over the fortifications and German armored divisions blasted through them.
An anachronism soon after it was built, the Maginot Line remains a timeless reminder of the folly of relying on strategies for fighting the last war -- while also expecting unscrupulous foes (such as North Korea, Iran and China today) to honor their international obligations.
Don't hold your breath waiting for Schultz to draw a parallel between avowed socialist Bernie Sanders and national socialist Adolf Hitler.
Ed Shultz is a little like Cinderella.
They both have the same reasoning power.
“If Trump was like Hitler he would invade Mexico and take all their assets.”
And put all the Mexicans into death camps
Said Schultz, "And let me tell you, I know a thing or two about Hitler!"
Kush
The Berlin Wall was built by communists, like Ed.
Fired from MSNBC for low ratings.
The lowest rating network on cable.
Special Ed is a retarded dunce. Hitler never wanted the Mexicans to pay for building a border wall.
Don’t you like to laugh at Ed? Maybe you’re the one who needs help.
Isnt this the pathetic buffoon whose PAC only made 25 bucks LOL..Well, at least he’s yapping and not smacking the heck out of his wife so that’s good
LOL! Sgt. Schultz was the best character on that show.
ES(ad) is a leftist Goebbels who shot his own dog.
Is this fool still getting air time someplace?
“I know nussing. I see nussing.”
Any comparison to Hitler to someone who hasn’t been responsible for the murder of millions of people is trivializing the true evil he was and mock the deaths of the people he had killed.
Schultz is sane just like Charlie Manson but without the fork or tattoo.
Well we ARE taking care of THEIR problem so its the least they could do for us. Fair’s fair.
I might, if I knew who this person is.
Now ask me if I care.
This stuff belongs over at DU.
Obummer is like Hitler, in that ObOzO’s people know what Obola means without Odungo having to say it.
Hehehe...how rich that Sgt. Schulz would compare Trump to Hitler. LOL.
No, this is just Schulz going off again.
But there is a remedy to his nonsense.
See:
The Donald Trump Phenomenon: Straight Talk
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3401409/posts?page=39#39
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