CBS TV Star Compares America to Nazi Germany

NewsMax.com ^ | 2/03/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

David Clennon, star of the hit CBS television series "The Agency," said Monday that the "moral climate" of America under President Bush is similar to that which pervaded Nazi Germany. Then, apparently not satisfied with merely insulting the U.S., Clennon contended that the only difference between Bush and Adolf Hitler is that Hitler was smarter.

"I'm saying that the moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany," Clennon told nationally syndicated radio host Sean Hannity.

When Hannity asked if Clennon was comparing the U.S. president to the Nazi leader, the CBS star replied, "I'm not comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler - because George Bush, for one thing, is not as smart as Adolf Hitler. And secondly George Bush has much more power than Adolf Hitler ever had."

The Hollywood peacenik said he was concerned that his own TV show had become a propaganda tool for the Bush administration's plans to make war on Iraq.

"I'm saying that we (Americans) have sunk pretty low and I'm saying that you can look at the moral climate in Germany in 1933," Clennon reiterated. "We have to ask ourselves if we found ourselves in Nazi Germany, what would we do?" he added. "Now I say, let the inspection process take its course."

Hannity told the actor that he couldn't wait to get a tape recording of his comments to Clennon's producers at the Tiffany network.

Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:

Bush Administration
Media Bias
Saddam Hussein/Iraq

[BullDog108]

IOW, I was wrong, but . . . .

Your name saves bandwidth..... ;^)

[chilepepper]

here is a partial list. many more i have forgotten about...

ed asner
kris kristoferson
barbra streisand
tim robbins
susan sarandon
david clennon
richard dreyfus
the whole sheen family (martin & son)
the whole roberts family (julia & eric)
the whole fonda family (henry, peter and jane)
woody harrelson
kevin costner
george clooney

special mention
oliver stone
gore vidal

there are some hollywood leftists who i exempt from this list, such as richard gere who goes after the red chinese in tibet whereas most hollywood lefties are amazingly hypocritical...

[lepton]

Ah, the Nazi Rule of Debate. The first one to mention Nazis in arguing his side automatically loses.

While I agree with the rule generally, what about discussions of the Ba'ath Socialist Party (An outgrowth of the Nazi Party formed in Damascus in 1941)?

[doug from upland]

I don't know. We irradiate food that is then safe.

[twyn1]

another good one, love her condescending "you poor, little people" smile

[Redbob]

"The Agency"?
On See-B.S.?

Never heard of it.

[dasboot]

Hope so.

[Happy2BMe]

"The stupidity of some people is just amazing. I wish that everyone one of these Hollywood idiots could be forced to live a year in Hitler's Germany or Castro's Cuba."

Glad you left out Saddam's Iraq - it won't be there this time next year.

[an amused spectator]

I was in NYC last weekend, and I must have heard the Bush-is-Hitler line (from my Upper West Side liberal friends) at least 20 times.

This is what Free Republic is all about. Thanks for the report from the front lines. Keep on keeping on!

[Happy2BMe]

"I do because its exposing the very dangerous liberal left like streisand and others for what they are."

Others . . .

The Washington Republican Party Response to Patty is HERE

Hi! My Name is "Taliban" Patty Murray But You Can Just Call Me Traitor!

Listen To My Radio Show "Taliban" Patty - Live From Baghdad! [strum, strum] "Where have all my neurons gone . . ."

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[BibChr]

Do these get transcribed? I'd be particularly interested in reading the segment when James Wood comes on.

Dan

[Madcelt]

James Woods is a very articulate man. I doubt Mr. Clennon had a chance. ( I wish I could have heard that excahnge!LOL)

[lonestar]

"I'm saying that we (Americans) have sunk pretty low and I'm saying that you can look at the moral climate in Germany in 1933," Clennon reiterated. "We have to ask ourselves if we found ourselves in Nazi Germany, what would we do?" he added. "Now I say, let the inspection process take its course."

Who is this guy? Besides an idiot?

With people like this in WWII, we'd all be speaking German!

[dighton]

"We prefer sheep to scarecrows, thank you very much."

[Archimedes2000]

Re; Ba'ath Socialist Party.

Excellent! I didn't know many other people knew of this bit of history.

Saddaam Hussein's Ba'ath Socialist Party was founded on traditional socialist principles, including the socialist sharing of oil revenue. Like Hitler's Socialist Germany, not everything was traditional "Marxist" doctrine, but a form of socialism was pervasive in both National Socialist Germany and socialist Iraq, certainly.

[lonestar]

He doesn't know me.

I never saw him before.

The show must need publicity--but this kind????

[livius]

Keep on keeping on!

Thanks! Although after last weekend, I suspect I'm going to have to find new friends there...

[Leisler]

Rough and a thinker, ouuuww.

What a putz. I got fellow drinkers in wheelchairs that would mop the floor with her, I mean, him.

[Leisler]

I read your post after I posted.

Another case of the universal being obvious.

[Marathoner]

What a list of hacks and fellow travelers. The one other name that immediately comes to my mind is Meathead (and I can't think of that clown's real name at the moment).