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Newly hired Grand Valley State football assistant suspended after praising Hitler in interview
Yahoo Sports ^ | Jan 27, 2020 | Sam Cooper

Posted on 01/27/2020 3:28:09 PM PST by The people have spoken

KV: So you graduated from Drury with a degree in History, you’re a history guy. If you could have dinner with three historical figures, living or dead, who would they be? And I’m ruling out football figures.

MB: This is probably not going to get a good review, but I’m going to say Adolf Hitler. It was obviously very sad and he had bad motives, but the way he was able to lead was second-to-none. How he rallied a group and a following, I want to know how he did that. Bad intentions of course, but you can’t deny he wasn’t a great leader.

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To: The people have spoken

If only he had praised Mao...they would have doubled his salary.


41 posted on 01/27/2020 4:07:10 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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To: The people have spoken

“Newly hired Grand Valley State football assistant suspended after praising Hitler in interview..”

That’s what happens if you dare speak a historical fact that is “politically incorrect” to the media and left wing political scum.


42 posted on 01/27/2020 4:10:34 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: The people have spoken

I thought that Hollywood film students learn from Nazi propaganda films like triumph of the will and Leni Reifenstahl’s film about the Olympics which was also propaganda from Nazi Germany


43 posted on 01/27/2020 4:11:47 PM PST by a fool in paradise (We need a tax to stamp out Communism- If you espouse Marxism weÂ’ll redistribute all of your money.)
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To: hardspunned
I've got you beat...I have a copy of Mao's Little Red Book.My copy has a forward written by Lin Piao...before Mao made him “disappear”.
44 posted on 01/27/2020 4:12:15 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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To: colorado tanker

“...but his style would never work on a 2020 audience...”

Context..he wasn’t operating in 2020.


45 posted on 01/27/2020 4:14:24 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: SteelCowboy
people physically recoil when they come to it. The programming runs deep, it’s pavlovian

That is a good thing. Wouldn't you agree?

46 posted on 01/27/2020 4:16:04 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: The people have spoken

47 posted on 01/27/2020 4:17:18 PM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: The people have spoken

My former university knows how to hire them. LOL!


48 posted on 01/27/2020 4:18:05 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Gay State Conservative

Wave that around enough and you could become modern democrat Svengali.


49 posted on 01/27/2020 4:19:02 PM PST by hardspunned
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To: colorado tanker

10% luck 90% rank incompetence by Beitian and France.


50 posted on 01/27/2020 4:19:17 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: hardspunned

My 6th grade teacher (who I think was Jewish) assigned mein kampf to some of us students in advanced English.


51 posted on 01/27/2020 4:20:22 PM PST by Skywise
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To: Yo-Yo
Premature posting.

Maybe Coach was a Harry Potter fan.

Here is the interview from the Student Newspaper:

KV: So you graduated from Drury with a degree in History, you’re a history guy. If you could have dinner with three historical figures, living or dead, who would they be? And I’m ruling out football figures.

MB: This is probably not going to get a good review, but I’m going to say Adolf Hitler. It was obviously very sad and he had bad motives, but the way he was able to lead was second-to-none. How he rallied a group and a following, I want to know how he did that. Bad intentions of course, but you can’t deny he wasn’t a great leader.


52 posted on 01/27/2020 4:20:48 PM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: hardspunned

He just keeps it for when the Brownshirt Dems come to his door.

See - I’m leftist!


53 posted on 01/27/2020 4:21:13 PM PST by Skywise
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To: The people have spoken; Yo-Yo

Hitler was an idiot.

He was an atrocious general, an incompetent war industry planner, and a wildly unrealistic strategist.


54 posted on 01/27/2020 4:22:33 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: The people have spoken

. If you could have dinner with three historical figures, living or dead,


Wonder what would have happened if he said Trump?


55 posted on 01/27/2020 4:23:47 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: SteelCowboy
I have a copy of Mein Kampf on my bookshelf. When people have scanned my books I have seen some people physically recoil when they come to it. The programming runs deep, it’s pavlovian. It has nothing to do with what he said or the merits of his point. He uttered the unutterable, and he shall be canceled.

There is a scene from the 1960s movie version of Fahrenheit 451 where the captain is explaining to Montag what books are about. He ends with the line, "We must burn the books--ALL the books," and when he says those last three words, the camera points to Mein Kampf.

If you want to understand evil and why it succeeds before it fails, Hitler would be a good a case study as any, and better than most. Someday there will come a Superhitler, the Antichrist, and understanding Hitler will help us to recognize him, for the one thing he won't look like is what we assume evil looks like.

56 posted on 01/27/2020 4:24:37 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: FatherofFive

“I always liked their leather coats.”

They did have Bad a%% uniforms. Hugo Boss designed.


57 posted on 01/27/2020 4:29:28 PM PST by setter
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To: MotorCityBuck
It is the will of Landru.



58 posted on 01/27/2020 4:30:28 PM PST by farming pharmer
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To: BenLurkin

Hitler did one good thing. He killed Hitler.
That’s taken from a post on FR a few years ago.


59 posted on 01/27/2020 4:31:21 PM PST by freefdny
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To: hardspunned

I even remember where I bought it...in the town where Mike Dukakis got his start,Brookline Massachusetts.


60 posted on 01/27/2020 4:31:57 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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