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.
I saw the clip with my own eyes. He did indeed compare Republicans to nazis. Now he’s just a liar.
Cohen is not only an extremely hardcore leftist, he is also by all accounts a genuine creep.
But then he’s a Dim, right?
Cohen the Commie: “Not only are Republicans Nazis, they are unreasonable Nazis.”
What a dupnik!
It is on tape and denying it makes you look like the liar you are.I love the “reasonable thinking people”...nothing like trying to make peer pressure work on people with a higher IQ than he has! So not only is he lying but if you doubt his huge lie then there is something wrong with your thinking. Anyone ever told him when you find yourself in a hole to stop digging?
You are a lying MF’er cohen.
LLS
Oh? Who exactly did he mean by “they”? Santa and his elves?
I think this loon was from a Jewish family like Soro’s turning in the good Jewish family's to the Nazis and then the Nazis Killed them..he seems like that he would be the type..Now how do you like that Steve Cohan? You are a disgrace to the Jewish people Cohan..
He also compared the Tea Party to the KKK.
LLS
He was obviously referring to ANOTHER Josef Goebbels. </sarc
It depends on what the definition of “is” is.
Why didn’t he just say “wasn’t me”...
I think this loon was from a Jewish family like Soro’s turning in the good Jewish family's to the Nazis and then the Nazis Killed them..he seems like that he would be the type..Now how do you like that Steve Cohan? You are a disgrace to the Jewish people Cohan..
Lying fascist.
Question: Was Jared Lee Loughner a DEMOCRAT?..
“I didn’t actually compare those Nazi creeps to Nazis.” Right. And I suppose it’s “uncivil” to point it out.
Can’t wait for ABC news to say that Cohen is once again making the story about himself..right?..they will do that, right?
According to the Pima County Election Commission, he registered as an Independent in 2006.
We don't know how he voted. But we can guess...
“Is he brain dead?”
Yes.
The lights burned out and the electrical meter has been tagged.
Yes he is a flaming liberal democrat among other things. Check out Tex Marrs site. He is a jew, a satanist and is into heavy metal rock music.
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