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Video: Progressives’ “Nazi” Rhetoric Begins With George Soros

By: Jeff Dunetz (Diary)  |  November 19th, 2010 at 03:00 PM  | 

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Media Matters, a George Soros propaganda organization masquerading as a media watchdog, is exhibiting its hypocrisy again. In an article titled Fox’s “Nazi” rhetoric also comes straight from the top, they took a comment by Fox News head Roger Ailes and used it as a starting point to attack almost every commentator on the network:

In a recent interview, Fox News chairman Roger Ailes referred to National Public Radio executives as “Nazis” with a “Nazi attitude,” and claimed “[t]hey are the left wing of Nazism.” Ailes’ employees at Fox News, particularly Glenn Beck, have also used Nazi and Holocaust imagery to smear President Obama, Democrats, and progressive figures.

Interestingly, though Media Matters is correct in saying that the use of Nazi analogies by Ailes was not appropriate, they don’t bother to challenge the facts or sentiment of the statement.

More important, however, is the utter hypocrisy of the Media Matters case; if they were truthful with themselves and their readers they would recognize that the same, inappropriate language comes from the progressive world. And it all starts with the movement’s leader and sugar-daddy, George Soros.

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  • http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

    would be the same as acknowledging their whole movement is one BIG lie. Fealty to the movement demands the hypocrisy; and worse than hypocrisy ‘cept we’re not allowed to say it.

  • http://thesandsinstitute.org Vassar Bushmills

    The most recent incarnation of the Left in America is more fascist than communist, and at the fringes, pure Nazi or anarchist.

    The case cannot only be made, it can be proved. It’s a case the old-school Jewish Left needs to see, writ large.

  • chipbennett

    FTA (emphasis mine):

    More important, however, is the utter hypocrisy of the Media Matters case; if they were truthful with themselves and their readers they would recognize that the same, inappropriate language comes from the progressive world.

    Why is such language now per se inappropriate?

    While I understand Godwin’s Law, why is it suddenly completely verboten ever to compare the words, actions, or beliefs of someone to those of Hitler and/or the Nazis – especially if such comparison can be supported through logical argumentation?

    • Jeff Dunetz

      Because there was only one Nazi Germany and as bad as things like what ailes was commenting on…it wasn’t on the same level as the Nazi’s

      • chipbennett

        I’m not commenting on this specific instance. In fact, I didn’t watch the video. I’m not arguing that his use of the comparison is or isn’t wrong.

        I suppose that, in general, I tend to think that it is more beneficial to refute specific arguments than to render all such comparisons taboo.

        I’m not so naive to think that another Hitler-esque person or Nazi-esque movement is utterly incapable of reappearing in a society comprised of fallen man. Thus, by refuting inappropriate comparisons using logical argument, we clarify the comparison in order better to recognize a rightful one. If we make the comparison itself forbidden, we deprive ourselves of the opportunity of forewarning.

    • merryj1

      It has been “completely verboten” (at least in parts of Europe) for many years; but here in America, especially, we’ve trivialized the comparison with so many instances of political demagoguery that much of the impact has been diluted, especially among the younger generation(s).

      While it’s true that more people have been murdered under communism than nazism, the commies were ‘equal opportunity killers’ rather than genocidal maniacs. Hitler announced his intention to exterminate ‘all the Jews in Europe’ then set about implementing his monstrous intention. It’s a distinction with a difference, and the comparisons still cause real pain to those whose family members were Holocaust victims and/or survivors.

      • chipbennett

        And I wouldn’t ever want to cause such real pain to such people who have endured so much.

        Ironically, though, I tend to think that it is the Jews who will continue to be the most likely to be targeted by any future genocidal maniacs such as Hitler.

  • 1stRichard

    Any analogy to socialism is also referring to the Nazi Party because Nazism is socialism. The European standard of left and right politics of socialism places National Socialism on the right wing of the socialist party but the United States is not yet a socialist nation, something we must avoid. In the Socialist Worker Party, Anton Drexler in My Political Awakening wrote,

    • merryj1

      “Basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same.” Adolph Hitler, February 1941 public speeches, printed in the Bulletin of International News published by the Royal Institute of International Affairs, vol. 18, 3/8/1941 (cited in Hayek’s “The Road to Serfdom”).

      Hitler’s swastika was copied (amidst some objections) from the Haken Cross (“hooked cross”), obscure origins but probably a religious symbol, which can still be seen engraved in the foundational concrete of some old brick bungalows, built in and before the 1920′s in suburban houses west of Chicago (and likely other locations that had been populated by European immigrants).

      • avgamerican

        I ll throw in out right communist and totalitarian with accuracy and no apologies. They are opposed to an open market. They are opposed to open debate in public education. They are opposed to the Judeo Christian belief system and they celebrate secular humanist radicalism. They are for placing all aspects of society under the power of the state. That is characteristic and by definition communism and tyrannical totalitarianism. Remember Nazi-Germany and Communist Russia also rose to power on the platform that they were for the people. This is exactly what dems are doing now. It is simply a repeat of the lie.