Posted on 01/20/2011 8:59:18 AM PST by markomalley
Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen (Tenn.) claimed Wednesday that he did not compare Republicans to Nazis during a floor speech this week, but reiterated many of the same points he made in that speech.
In his first television interview since his Tuesday-night speech, Cohen said he does not think most "reasonable people" would construe his words as a direct comparison between Nazis and the GOP.
But he maintained that Republican rhetorical tactics during the healthcare debate have resembled Nazi propaganda.
"I didn't compare the Republicans to Nazis," Cohen, who is Jewish, said on CNN's "John King, USA" program. "I compared the big lie. ... It was repeated over and over again. [Nazi propaganda minister Joseph] Goebbels was the master of political propaganda. He said, 'Repeat it. Make it short. Make it simple and repeat it over and over.' And that's what they've done."
The Tennessee Democrat said Tuesday night that Republicans "don't like the truth, so they summarily dismiss it. They say it's a government takeover of healthcare. A big lie, just like Goebbels. You say it enough and you repeat the lie, repeat the lie, repeat the lie until eventually people believe it. Like blood libel, that's the same kind of thing."
Cohen added that the Nazis' claims set the table for the Holocaust, which resulted in the killing of 6 million Jews and millions of others.
Cohen's floor speech drew heavy scrutiny, not only because he invoked the Nazis, but because he did so even with the heightened sensitivity to heated political rhetoric in the wake of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) on Jan. 8.
WTH? He most certainly did. Is he brain dead?
another extreme leftist racist flaming hatred across America
So who do I believe? This jerk, or my lying eyes and ears?
“WTH? He most certainly did. Is he brain dead?”
No, he’s a lib-tard and therefore NEVER RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT HE SAYS . . . and, besides, it was PROBABLY TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT . . . get it????????
Hey, come on. Let’s give him a break. He didn’t say Republicans ARE Nazis, he simply said we are just like them.
Sheesh...people are so sensitive these days, looking for every teeny-tiny slight.
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What a shock...the man’s a damned liar, whooda thunkit?
Is this a trick question?
If this “Blood Libel” tribe member is truly seeking National Socialist spawns of Hitler he need look no farther than the nearest mirror.
When Dem’s say something then deny it, it didn’t happen.
Yes, Commie Cohen, you did. If you believe you did not, you are even stupider than those of us who oppose you in this district already believed.
Yes he did. He referred to Republicans comparing them to Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister. He said the Repubs will repeat a “lie” over and over again until it becomes accepted.
In truth, it’s the Democrat media that practices this Goebbels tactic.
Iv’e had personal runins with Steve. He’s just a media whore who by changing his story is just extending his fifteen minutes of fame.
I didn’t compare them to Nazis. I just said that what they are doing is just like what the Nazis did. See the difference?
Only in the deluded mind of a leftist does that kind of logic make sense.
I’ve
> He most certainly did. Is he brain dead?
He’s a DemonRAT zombie, right?
Answer is in the question.
Au contraire! I heard him on the floor yesterday and he most certainly did.
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