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.
If hitler were like trump he would have put up a wall on the czech and polish borders instead of invading them.
Pretty sure he wouldnt have killed jews either.
He would have just deported any illegals instead of gassing them.
Why does this sound familiar?
He’s on a podcast.Nobody cares.
Shouldn’t Mister Ed be on meds?
Hitler never wanted the Mexicans to pay for building a border wall
however the Nazis did try to get Mexico to go to war with US
Who gives ein scheisze for Red Ed Schultz, and his flatulent and coprometic utterances?
Even Der Halbeschwarzefuhrer!
Sultz reminds me of Cinderella.
They both have the same reasoning power.
Do these babbling, mouth-breathing morons who call Trump “Hitler” not realize that Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, converted to Judaism when she married a Jew? And his Grandchildren are Jewish?
That was my first thought.
I frequently have difficulties understanding the liberal thought process.
But if Hitler had his enemies build a wall around Germany, wouldn’t they have been protected?
Hitler would have just invaded Mexico. Not implausibly threaten to take illegals remittances back home out of the mail or however this is supposed to be paid for.
When he’s elected will Trump reveal the “wall” is just a metaphor?
I picture him doing his podcast with a wall of stuffed characters as his “audience”.
If illegals are so great and wonderful, why isn’t Mexico pleading and begging them to return to Mexico to help fix things in their own home country?
You think Ed Schultz is GOP? He’s a commie who drank himself off MSNBC.
And that means what, exactly? Many people read the words of ideologically evil people in order to better understand the evil philosophy and therefore better recognize it if/when it raises its ugly head.
I used to listen to Radio Moscow during the era of the USSR for exactly that reason. It didn't mean I turned doe-eyed every time I heard the propaganda, it meant that I was becoming educated. So that when I hear the same language from American Democrats, I recognize its source and know that I should stand against them.
If people do NOT study the words of evil and understand the underlying assumptions and philosophy, they are quite likely to fall for it. Case in point: look how many liberals are swooning over the idea of opening the borders and allowing unfettered illegal immigration. They really believe that unfettered illegal immigration improves the lives of the illegals and does no harm to the owners of the country. It takes careful intellectual examination of the issue (something liberals are not capable of) to understand the many ways in which that utopian ideal is not, and never will be, an accurate picture of reality.
Special Ed is trying to fill the “Moron” seat at the Democrat table left empty by the departure of Dennis Kuku Kucinich.
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