[Impala64ssa]

Video and tweets at link. When our lovely daughter was a child my parents gave her a music box thay plays Eidelweiss they bought while visiting Austria on a European vacation. Who knew it was a nazi anthem? What would we be without Maggie Haberman's wise insights?

[BenLurkin]

Which is why they are known as “The Loony Left”

[vigilence]

Maggie’s not used to writing by herself. Most of her reporting for the NYT is done collaboratively. This snafu on her part begs the question, does her name appear in joint bylines as a token female for the paper? Is she an affirmative action hire?

[IronJack]

The song was composed for the musical. It is not an Austrian folk song. It has no traditional or historic significance at all.

Even in the movie, it was a song that bespoke Austrian resistance to anschluss, a stance that got Georg von Trapp in trouble with the local gauleiter. In other words, it was ANTI-NAZI, you uninformed idiots!

[FenwickBabbitt]

I take it dummy Marxist Maggie Haberman was not referring to the song’s association with a patriotic, Christian family from Austria, who were persecuted by Nazis in real life. (I have a feeling the dummy Marxist also doesn’t realize Edelweiss is a type of flower... She’s complaining about an ecological song.)

[Beagle8U]

Is “Mueller” a Russian name, or is it Nazi?

[Freedom4US]

What a feckless cvnt. Sheesh

[skimbell]

Oh, the Nazi anthem written in 1959.

[skimbell]

Same thing as playing the Nazi anthem La Marseillaise at Rick's in Casablanca.

[bgill]

Heaven forbid if she overheard Ivanka playing Brahms’s lullaby.

[windsorknot]

Joseph Haydn was a National Socialist when he composed the German National Anthem.

[Flick Lives]

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.

[Yaelle]

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???

[cranked]

The clueless will virtually always remain clueless, willingly.

[DoughtyOne]

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!

[mosesdapoet]

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.

[Darksheare]

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

[trebb]

From Wiki (Bolding mine): In the musical, Captain von Trapp and his family sing this song during the concert near the end of Act II, as a statement of Austrian patriotism in the face of the pressure put upon him to join the navy of Nazi Germany following the Anschluss (Nazi annexation of their homeland). It is also Captain von Trapp's subliminal goodbye to his beloved homeland, using the flower as a symbol of his loyalty to Austria. In the 1965 film adaptation, the song is also sung by the Captain earlier in the film when he rediscovers music with his children.

[zeugma]

Why would someone think he had any idea what songs were to be played? Do they really think he gets involved in that kind of administrivia?

[jimmygrace]

Ariana Grande must be a Nazi as well. Her latest song is also from the Sound of Music... Favorite Things.