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BREAKING: SEN. SHERROD BROWN (D, OH) MAKES ANTI-SEMITIC ATTACK AGAINST JOSH MANDEL.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  September 7th, 2012 at 11:06 PM  | 

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Dear God but this is filthy.  From Sherrod Brown’s campaign ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4h0fCsr0NEw

Specific quote: “Josh Mandel: He’s become the candidate of the Big Lie.”

(Via @freddoso)

The “Big Lie” – as Calfornia Democrat Chair John Burton so helpfully reminded us earlier this week, when he explicitly referenced that term to call Republicans Nazis – is a term coined by Adolf Hitler to help justify his systematic demonization and degradation of the Jews.  It is, bluntly, a term that was used to justify genocide.  Given that Josh Mandel happens to be Jewish himself, this is appalling – and no, Brown has no excuse here; agents of the Democratic party have spent the entire week calling Republicans Nazis.  And, again, in at least one case the use of the phrase was done explicitly and specifically – which means that it was part of the record, and certainly in the news.  Sherrod Brown should get no benefit of the doubt, here.  None. At. All.

John Burton was forced by his party to apologize.  But will any Democrat dare bring Sherrod Brown to heel?

Moe Lane (crosspost)

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  • MoeLane

    …Last time I checked, Todd Akin didn’t have a problem with Jews.

  • MiamiDave

    Luckily for Sherrod Brown, once the Mainstream Media noticed the (D) after his name, they couldn’t find anything here worth reporting. Thank you, Mr. Lane, for bringing Brown’s shameful and hateful displays to light. Sadly, this hasn’t been the first time the Ohio Democrats have engaged in anti-Semitism in this Senate race (as RedState has noted before) and it probably won’t be the last.

  • Ausonius

    Mandel is an ex-Marine, for those who do not know, and has been accused in the Brown ads of “cronyism, nepotism, and rascalism”.

    Not to mention slacking!

    Democrat Billy Jeff Clinton once remarked that you do “whatever it takes” to win an election, and that included lying. We see now that referring to Nazism – and using anti-Semitism – in anti-Republican ads is par for the course.

    Whether a good number of people will understand the reference is unknown: in our illiterate and aliterate and under-educated age, I suspect the reference will fly over their heads, unless pointed out.

    Why any Jew – or Catholic or Protestant or person of basic morality – would stay in the Dem Party or vote for a Dem is beyond comprehension.

  • westcoastpatriette

    I don’t consider myself illiterate, Ausonius, but this one would have flown over my head if it hadn’t been explained to me. That’s why it’s good to have conservative sites so our fellow conservatives can edumacate us on the finer points of politics. :) )

  • Locked and Loaded

    They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. Titus 1:16

  • westcoastpatriette

    Perfect scripture, Locked and Loaded.

  • jimcrane

    I used to live in Ohio, and being named ‘Brown’ always somehow seemed to give a candidate a leg up…so Mandel has a big uphill battle. Send donations!!

  • izoneguy

    The whole democratic party is a “big lie”.
    The followers of Obama are no different than the followers of Hitler and Jim Jones.

  • ohiohistorian

    I have watched Sherrod Brown “deal” with people with whom he disagreed. In the case I saw, he not only tried to belittle the guy (for trying to be neutral on global warming), but did so in a public way in front of about 4 staffers (he can’t go to the bathroom by himself) 3-4 bureaucrats from the AFB, and about a dozen other various sycophants touring with Sherrod. This man is morally unfit to be re-elected, even if he was doing good things.

    As far as his voting record, being Obama’s “51st Senator” on ObamaCare, voting against bringing to vote a Senate bill to rein in the EPA on shutting down coal-fired power plants, and voting for every one of Obama’s budget-busting spending bills, it is time for him to go.

  • Ausonius

    Hi WestCoastPatriette! My remark seems harsh now in the evening :) Probably a generational aspect is at work, since I grew up in the aftermath of Stalin and Hitler, both of whom (along with Lenin and Mao) used “The Big Lie” as an agitprop technique, and later specialized in European History, along with other things. So the phrase is much more alive in my brain! :)

  • ihccwmpenn

    To be fair, I actually looked up the article that “big lie” quote comes from and trying to link to Burton’s comments is rather dubious. Burton actually goes as far as to use the name of the Nazi chief propagandist in the same sentence as the words “big lie”. The author of the Columbus Dispatch piece, “These regular guys have some words of wisdom for Mandel” makes no such similar references. Here is the context surrounding the quote concerning Mr. Mandel:
    “That’s not to say Brown has been a choir boy. From the day you even hinted at a Senate bid —
    maybe a month after you became treasurer — Brown surrogates launched a brutal and relentless attack
    to define you as anything but a Marine deserving respect.

    Still, you have self-inflicted wounds during this campaign that are hurting your reputation long
    term, win or lose. You are becoming known as the candidate of the big lie, continually making
    statements and airing ads that stretch the truth or are patently untrue. PolitiFact Ohio,
    The Plain Dealer’s respected campaign truth-o-meter, has given you more “Pants on Fire”
    ratings for false claims than any other candidate by far.”
    IN other words, all the author means by “the big lie” is that his record with the fact-checking org of PolitiFact is terrible and is hurting his image. There is no reference to Nazis or anything. So I honestly don’t see any evidence to connect the use of three words in a local state newspaper to Mr. Burton using the same simple three words. Especially considering the original author actually wrote another piece showing some support for Mandel by encouraging him that it wasn’t too late to change the attitude of his campaign and win (plus the author doesn’t seem to be a fan of Brown either). So I think it’s safe the way when the author used the words “the big lie”, there was no dark and evil motive behind it.

  • westcoastpatriette

    Well, that makes me feel a little better. Perhaps my ignorance is relative to my age — not that that is any excuse. There is always more to learn, right?

  • myronfalwell

    It doesn’t hurt that Mr. Brown is married to The Plain Dealer’s top liberal columnist, Connie Schultz (who took leave from the PD this time around, but is still nationally syndicated to other papers, including a paper in suburban Elyria). That’s one way to buy yourself favorable coverage.

    Fortunately, the Plain Dealer will be reduced to a thrice-weekly at some point next year. Still, too late for this election, unfortunately.

    Mr. Brown lives in my hometown of Avon, and I am deeply ashamed by that.

  • myronfalwell

    It’s a bizarre quirk that has persisted for decades. I don’t know if it’s out of misplace loyalty to football revolutionary Paul Brown or something similar…

  • myronfalwell

    “PolitiFact Ohio, The Plain Dealer’s respected campaign truth-o-meter, has given you more “Pants on Fire” ratings for false claims than any other candidate by far.”

    Again, Sen. Brown is married to a Plain Dealer columnist. Mandel will never get any favorable coverage from that source because of it.

    The joke known as Politifarce speaks for itself.