[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

Rush NAILS Ted Turner on his comparing the Fox News Channel to Hitler....

[kellynla]

BTTT

[Publius6961]

President Hindenburg, to pass the Reichstag's which abolishes most political rights in the republic.

Fascinating, educational and a welcome addition to my "reference" folder, but...

There seems to be a critical, essential phrase missing from the end of this paragraph.

[antiRepublicrat]

In that in a parliamentary system the leader is never directly elected by the people, Rush is right. But the NSDAP had been getting bigger and bigger election results prior to taking over. Then his party (he) was elected in the same way the government of the old USSR was elected -- by being the only party participating in the elections.

[Echo Talon]

FOX's reply to Turner was most excellent, hammered him, then laid pity on him by wishing him well... LOL brilliant!

[Monti Cello]

This topic by Rush motivated me to review some WWII history. Given the current situation it was enlightening to look at a timeline of WWII to appreciate the uncertainty and ebb-and-flow of defeat and success. It's good to read the whole thing straight through. Just amazing to see the incredibly rapid pace of huge geopolitical and military events, not to mention the sheer barbarism that spurred American to action.

Historyplace WWII Timeline (Europe)

[Monti Cello]

Here's another good synopsis.

Hitler Biography

[Preech1]

I wish I would have known this story before I catered Ted Turner's plane on Tuesday night...I would have worn my "Bush Cheney" pin. He was on his way to Switzerland.

[IamConservative]

I can see why liberals would want to associate Fox News with Hitler. I mean, the strategy worked so well for them in the election - comparing Bush to Hitler.

If CNN would go away, there would be room for another sports network on cable!

[RightWingReader]

Hitler was a megalomaniacal out-of-control demogogue, incompetent planner and hoarder of property. If we apply those traits alone, if anything is "Hitler", it's Ted Turner and CNN.

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

I thought everyone knew this. And you tell me the libs consider we redneck types ignorant?

[FourtySeven]

A good historical (re)education.

[R. Scott]

TURNER: That's not necessarily a bad thing. I mean it's not -- I'm not happy about it, but Adolf Hitler was more popular in Germany in the early thirties than his -- people that were running against him. So just because you're bigger doesn't mean you're right.

A few seconds on Google would have saved Ted Turner the embarrassment. Hitler was never elected, he was appointed Chancellor on 30 January, 1933.
In February 1932 Hitler decided to stand against Hindenburg in the forthcoming Presidential election. In order to do this he became a German citizen on 25th February 1932. The result of the election on 13th March 1932 gave Hindenburg 49.6 percent of the vote and Hitler 30.1 percent (two other candidates stood).
Despite all the advantages, in the elections of March 5th 1933, the Nazis only managed to acheive 44 percent of the votes.
The Enabling Act, placed before the Reichstag on 23rd of March 1933 was to allow the powers of legislation to be taken away from the Reichstag and transferred to Hitler's cabinet for a period of four years. The act required a two-thirds majority, but passed easily with the support of the Center and Nationalist parties and the suppression of all Communist deputies and several Social Democrats. Thus dictatorial powers were finally conferred, legally, on Adolf Hitler. By July 14th Hitler had proclaimed a law stating that the Nazi Party was to be the only political party allowed in Germany.
On 2 August 1934 a plebiscite was then held for the public to decide on whether they approved of the changes already made - 90% of voters gave their approval. With only one party, the police and military under Hitler’s control they had little choice.

[ichabod1]

They say he's losing his mind. He's sixty-six, which is a little too young to be senile, but not too young to get Alzheimers. I saw some clips of the now infamous Q&A from last week (?) and he looks like he's at least eighty. And the way he stutters and stumbles... I think he needs to hand over power of attorney to somebody.

[Radix]

Turner is a student of "his story!"

[Pagey]

A "Historically accurate thread" BUMP!

[purpleland]

..."To reinforce the point that Nazism was in fact Leftist, we might also note: Hitler always campaigned as a socialist and champion of the worker and the full name of Hitler's political party -- generally abbreviated as "Nazi" -- says it all: Die Nazionalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei ("The National Socialist German Worker's Party"). So, as a good socialist does, Hitler justified everything he did in the name of "the people" (Das Volk). The Nazi State was, like the Soviet State, all-powerful, and the Nazi party, in good socialist fashion, supervised German industry minutely. And of course Hitler and Stalin were initially allies. It was only the Nazi-Soviet pact that enabled Hitler's conquest of Western Europe. The fuel in the tanks of Hitler's Panzers as they stormed through France was Soviet fuel." - Excerpt, Dissecting Leftism, Dr. John J. Ray, www.jonjayray.tripod.com


So virulent racism CAN exist on the Left. Most Leftists are just dishonest about acknowledging it, that is all. They think that by relabelling it they perform some sort of magic trick that makes it go away. They try to hide the fact that Nazism is the ugly twin of modern-day Leftism.