Posted on 04/21/2019 10:20:09 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
The latest attempt to brand Trump a Nazi has two American artists rolling over in their graves.
On Thursday, a New York Post reporter tweeted that President Donald Trump played the song "Edelweiss" at the White House. The New York Times's White House correspondent, Maggie Haberman, suggested the song was a Nazi anthem, inspiring rightful backlash on Twitter. She seemed to stick with this false view, even after she was called out on it.
"'Edelweiss' was being played as we walked into the [White House]," Nikki Schwab, the Post reporter, tweeted.
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Edelweiss was being played as we walked into the @WhiteHouse
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Flabbergasted, Haberman responded, "Does...anyone at that White House understand the significance of that song?"
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Does...anyone at that White House understand the significance of that song?
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Edelweiss was being played as we walked into the @WhiteHouse
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This tweet suggested that Trump was outing himself as pro-Nazi by playing the song at the White House.
When Ben Shapiro responded with a mocking tweet, Haberman doubled down, saying, "So you're going with no, then."
Twitter screenshot of Maggie Haberman's response to Ben Shapiro.
As National Review's Alexandra DeSanctis noted, "Edelweiss" originated in The Sound of Music (1965), an American musical about the ravages of the Nazi rise to power in Austria. The song was a tribute to pre-Nazi Austria and a rebuke to the Nazis.
Where did Haberman get the idea that the song supports Nazis? The answer may lie with Amazon's hit show The Man in the High Castle. That show repurposed "Edelweiss" as a creepy lament in an alternate universe where the Nazis win World War II and conquer a third of America.
Amazon's recasting of the song was a brilliant artistic move, and it gives extra heft to the show's opening credits. But it may have convinced viewers that "Edelweiss" is a pro-Nazi song, rather than an anti-Nazi one. Indeed, it is plausible that Haberman's outrage at Trump playing the song is the result of Amazon's show.
The Washington Examiner's Seth Mandel noted this connection.
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They think Edelweiss is a Nazi anthem because it's on a TV show that has Nazis and they're also speed reading a super important report into presidential misconduct and you can absolutely trust their judgment and their depth and breadth of knowledge
Alexandra DeSanctis
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Mainstream press insinuating that Edelweiss is a Nazi anthem because the WH played it has me so much more annoyed right now than the left-wing spin on the report. The more I think about it the more irritated I get. Its the perfect example of whats wrong with our media.
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The Daily Wire's Elisha Krauss said Rodgers and Hammerstein may be "rolling over in their graves."
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Has no one ever seen the Sound of Music?????? Edelweiss is like the Austrian's rallying cry AGAINST the Nazis... It's like the Von Trapp Family's anthem AGAINST the Nazis... Are Rodgers and Hammerstein rolling over in their graves???
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Naturally, Haberman is distracted by the Mueller report. Even so, she should have known better.
So, “The Man In The High Castle” needs to change it’s theme song now?
The Sound of Music was a Pro-Nazi film?
These propaganda nuts are loosing their minds.
re: “Who knew it was a nazi anthem?”
Apparently, every member of the American MSM/’press’. It’s like it was a “dog whistle”, SOMETHING only they could hear, or perceive, or something.
This, itself, is VERY disturbing ...
Mags Haberman:
"Was it over when the Nazis bombed Pearl Harbor?!!?!"
Yeah, but Kurt Waldheim was from Austria, so that makes Julie Andrews a Nazi or something.
Trump and his family were escaping the modern day Nazis. It was entirely appropriate to play considering the role the press played during the Mueller investigation.
Not to put too fine a point on it, the song was written for the 1959 Stage production of Sound of Music, pre-dating the movie by a few years.
The funniest thing about this is the thought that Trump gives input into the Muzak played in the White House.
I pray to God my President has more important things to do with his time—and if he doesn’t, he should be on the golf course.
‘It’s sad to find out that Christopher Plummer was actually a Nazi in The Sound Of Music...’
it was sad to see Plummer’s great acting ability muffled in The Sound of Music...
Outside of being ignorant of the original context of the song, they are also ignorant of the fact that Rodgers and Hammerstein were Jews.
ANY song that Trump would play would have a sinister meaning to the Left. And if Trump played no song at all? Well, that would have a sinister meaning too.
When the show started with Edelweiss, I thought it was a very old German folk song that Rodgers & Hammerstein had rearranged for Sound Of Music.
I was surprised (but shouldn't have been) that it was wholly original for the play.
Hey....but at least I checked!
So were all of the "Germans" on Hogan's Heroes.
Well there was a German U-Boat known as “The Edelweiss Boat”. It had a flower painted on the conning tower. Those crafty Germans knew it would be in the movie.
Operation Edelweiss was the German attack on the Caucasus Mountains, so therefore Nazi and Russians. < /braindead liberal mode>
Anyone who has seen “The Sound of Music” knows that this song was an anthem IN DEFIANCE of the nazis.
Apparently Maggie doesnt.
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