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.
Nikki Schwab
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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. It’s the perfect example of what’s 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.
Oh, the Nazi anthem written in 1959.
Heaven forbid if she overheard Ivanka playing Brahms’s lullaby.
Joseph Haydn was a National Socialist when he composed the German National Anthem.
Yea Maggie he once again proved by your point odds and actions that you are stupid. It sure was a Nazi won’t written 14 years after the This Reich fell. Stupid poor stupid Maggie
Austria is still trying to convince people that Beethoven was Austrian and that Hitler was German.
Does...anyone at that White House understand the significance of that song?
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Yes. We’ve learned your “knowledge” of history is limited to what’s on Netflix.
Holy effing poop. Edelweiss as sung in the Sound of Music is the love for a Free Austria against the Nazi takeover!! How can you get it that wrong???
I don’t even think “Tomorrow Belongs To Me” (the actual, chilling, Nazi song in the show) made it into the movie. Or did it?
You might have won this thread!
The clueless will virtually always remain clueless, willingly.
A time travel delivery via that bell thing that supposedly crashed later in PA or somewhere up in the NE.
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That was the song from Cabaret. Fake Nazi. Written by Kanter and Ebb for the show and included in the movie.
Perhaps he did, in that mirror universe in which the show is set. It would follow that the Nazis would make movies celebrating their rise to power.
She needs to go watch the movie and grasp the meaning for herself. (she will obviously need help...)
The Von Trap family saw NAZIism for what it was, and felt the need to flee.
WE today see the advance of another NAZI group, but we’re not surrendering to it.
I refuse to think the U. S. would allow world class criminals like these to flourish.
It’s time to stop this nonsense in it’s tracks.
Textbooks now referencing me as a racist because I back Trump?
F no!
Misrepresenting a song who’s lyrics btw have nothing to do with endorsing a political movement Is typical of the use of PC Perverse Cliometric tactics used by the left when it’s presented as being politically correct to fit their distorted perverted revisionist views.
Lol
Seems the socialists have forgotten that their marching song was “Erika”.
So here’s a modernized version of it for her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVd4pZCSnDE
Oh right! It was taken out of the movie version? Not sure. Sorry to get cabaret mixed up with the von Trapps. Both good musicals.
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