Aside from the sheer offensiveness of these comments, the historical illiteracy is amazing.

“The Nazis hated big business” is about as dumb as it gets.

For the like of all that is holy, when will the ADL come down on this asshole?

Or does Abe Foxman need that right-wing money too much to let anti-semetic, racist assholes be called on their offensiveness?

You’re allowed to HitlerHitlerHitler people if you’re a neocon.

Hey Rush (and Glenn and Billo and Sean, etal): Prove you can read.

http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/6987

Maybe, just maybe, his mean lunatic rants will begin to turn away any remaining who have sense and reject this garbage.

Limbaugh is no more illiterate of history than the orignial Nazi’s were. America is ripe for a taste of true fascism and Limbaugh, the birthers and baggers and the Republican Party will lead the way. Of course it will all be done under the banner of patriotism and Christianity. Who can resist that?

Chris Matthews hit Rush hard on the “nazi” references
Although it is amazing to me when Matthews tells Schrum that he hit just a bit below the belt. Matthews is always bringing up Clinton’s blow jobs

The clip of Schrum and Buchanan is not up yet. He had Bob Schrum and Buchanan on to discuss Limbaugh’s latest rantings

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Just keep looking for some coverage of the rallies taking place in D.C. on the MSM. The Ed show, Keith, Matthews, Rachel just are not covering them. Cnn aired a pro health care rally in D.C. today not seeing any coverage anywhere else. They all missed the Health Care Now march last Thursday same day they all had their noses in Obama’s ass at the beer summit

Seriously, the Nazis hated “Big Business”. I guess they didn’t mind doing business with Prescot Bush and all his “Big Business” steel industry buddies?

It’s more likely that the increasingly shrill rants of the limp one will incite one of his dedicated but deranged followers to do something horrific. Of course, being a good Republic, Limpy will deny any responsibility.

Please, as long as he’s making money for the corporations his swill will be peddled to the American public who by and large make perfect dupes for the fascists amonst us.

I would like to#%&$#$%# Rush many times over. He has earned every bit of it!!

We can hope. And for me it would be doubly entertaining to know that the $400 million contract would either have to be paid out or negotiated away. Either way, Major Financial Ding.

Who will be surprised at some mass carnage all in the name of “stopping big government.” The wheels have been greased it’s only a matter of time.

Someday Rush will be dragged off to hell to pay off his bargain with the devil. In the meantime, I will indulge myself in contemplating his fate there. As to the Nazi’s hating capitalism, I am reminded Upton Sinclair’s equation: “Fascism is capitalism plus murder.”

If you dismiss the insignificant differences involving the axis with Italy and Japan, the annexation of Austria, the Munich Agreement (that disasterously ceded parts of Czechoslovakia in an attempt to appease the Nazis), the invasion of Poland, the occupation of France, the bombing of London, the treaty of non-aggression and then the breaking of that treaty and the war on the eastern front, war in North Africa, the Luftwaffe and Herman Goering and Hitler and Eva Braun too, genocide and concentration camps and the fall of Berlin and the Nuremberg trials…

Aside from those few insignificant things and others like them, the similarities are spooky.

Would the 3rd Reich have been possible if Goebbels had met an untimely demise?

Excellent!

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/…..11928.html

Creeping Fascism

The voices of the past, on Recognizing the Unrecognizable…

“You will understand me when I say that my Middle High German was my life. It was all I cared about. I was a scholar, a specialist. Then, suddenly, I was plunged into all the new activity, as the university was drawn into the new situation; meetings, conferences, interviews, ceremonies, and, above all, papers to be filled out, reports, bibliographies, lists, questionnaires. And on top of that were the demands in the community, the things in which one had to, was ‘expected to’ participate that had not been there or had not been important before. It was all rigmarole, of course, but it consumed all one’s energies, coming on top of the work one really wanted to do. You can see how easy it was, then, not to think about fundamental things. One had no time.”

“Those,” I said, “are the words of my friend the baker. ‘One had no time to think. There was so much going on.’”

“Your friend the baker was right,” said my colleague. “The dictatorship, and the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting. It provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway. I do not speak of your ‘little men,’ your baker and so on; I speak of my colleagues and myself, learned men, mind you. Most of us did not want to think about fundamental things and never had. There was no need to. Nazism gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about—we were decent people—and kept us so busy with continuous changes and ‘crises’ and so fascinated, yes, fascinated, by the machinations of the ‘national enemies,’ without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us. Unconsciously, I suppose, we were grateful. Who wants to think?

“To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it—please try to believe me—unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, ‘regretted,’ that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these ‘little measures’ that no ‘patriotic German’ could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head.

“And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.

“Once the war began, the government could do anything ‘necessary’ to win it; so it was with the ‘final solution of the Jewish problem,’ which the Nazis always talked about but never dared undertake, not even the Nazis, until war and its ‘necessities’ gave them the knowledge that they could get away with it. The people abroad who thought that war against Hitler would help the Jews were wrong. And the people in Germany who, once the war had begun, still thought of complaining, protesting, resisting, were betting on Germany’s losing the war. It was a long bet. Not many made it.”

Nazi Germany & IG Farben (Now BASF) – Nazi war machine. What Rush, you believe all those Panzers & Meshersmitts were built in people’s back yards?

Right! Talk to me about Nazis being anti Big Business.

Limpy is not even historically correct. The Nazis hated jewish business, regardless of size. They embraced big business, so long as it was not jewish owned. However, since he has just a high school education, perhaps knowing facts is too much to expect of the limp one.

Exactly Blue Texan. Does anyone making these claims actually know the definition of fascism? I know they don’t care, I’m curious if they accidentally read it somewhere once…

Or Krupp, ITT, Ford, GM, Chase Bank, Morgan Bank. One might notice that all but Krupp are American.

Luckily Jews as a group tend to be well educated and will not want to be associated with Rush, whose basic appeal is to the uneducated and the underinformed. The ignorant, in fact. I doubt that Jews will, in general, be taken in by the whole democrats are Nazis thing. It’s just too stupid.

ding! it’s not about stupidity or illiteracy. it’s about stealing our thunder. he said , she said.

the progressives are starting to figure out that bush was operating directly out of hitler’s playbook. and it continues without since bush is out of office. as the progressives are also noticing. surveillance. corporate ownership and deregulation of the media. blackwater. bailing out big banks with taxpayer money. people hungry, homeless and scared.

if limp one says it first loud and clear, then he steals our thunder and our believability. this is all at a very dangerous level now.

back to watching the video. i can only take him in 10 second increments, if that.

You know I’ve heard that certain Republican strategists are seeking to drive a wedge between the Obama administration and any support it might have (or could get) from Israel, and from Israeli and Jewish interests here in the U.S.

I wonder what kinds of language and slanders and insults we might sling at the Obama administration, that could drive that wedge…

Any suggestions?

Wonder what the founding fathers would have done with a Tory traitor that was printing in Philadelphia falsehoods and lies demonizing the American partiots of 1776.

I presume it is not necessary to recall, the Nazi oppression against labor union activists and democratic political activists. And, the major german corporations and capitalists were more than cooperative with the “Thousand Year Reich”. Of course, Pat Buchanan. GE TeeVee political expert, just swoons with love, whenever his speaks about his beloved Fuhrer. C street Christians who also love their Dictator are not as public as Pat.

There seems to be a pattern with these secretive bible thumping Hitler lovers. The wingnuts want to be more Hitlerish, or Bin Ladenish.

According to Coe, these men, Jesus, Hitler, Lenin, et al, demanded that dedication to purpose comes before your mother, father, siblings and family. Therefore, in order to be a good disciple of Christ, you must be willing to “chop off the head of your mother.” An example of “dedication” cited by Coe in a speech admiring the martyrs signing up to do Osama Bin Laden’s work. And his conclusion? Even Jesus Christ demands that type of dedication from his disciples, according to Coe.

Just wondering when the Republicans and the new American fascists will come out with their own “Triumph of the Will.” There has to be a lobbying/pr firm in D.C. working on it now. Baggers and birthers are giving them a lot of footage.

Several contriputors to FDL have shown that a program of letter writing can effect advertiser spending.

Isn’t it time for all of us to concentrate our effort and go after this guy?

Here’s the So Cal “Triumph…” Scary shit.

http://www.harvest.org/crusade…..ium=banner

And as Bob Schrum just pointed out on Hardball, all the pictures of the Nazis meeting with Hitler showed lots of people smoking.

Guess who got the contract for the elevators in the “Freedom Towers”?

Hell, in those days it was hard to find someone who didn’t smoke.

KBR.

Limbaugh is a cash cow for the corporate media. Unless he calls for political assassinations or pogroms against immigrants, people of color, leftists or intellectuals he’s untouchable. Money talks and bullshit walks.

Rush is projecting…. If there were ever anyone resembling Nazi’s it’s the republics.

Advertisers dump Glenn Beck

http://mediamatters.org/blog/200908060011

Hmmm.. Rush = Goebbels?

maybe not, Murdoch = Goebbels?

So who’re the Fuhrer candidates?

ClearChannel is having money problems. They’re beginning to lay off and shut down unprofitable stations. If the local advertising money starts to dry up Rush may find himself too expensive for some of them, regardless of whether the local money went to his show or not.

Aside from being sick and stupid, it must be very painful for Jews to constantly hear the work Nazi thrown around in this way. I get e-mails almost every day from Jewish organizations in almost joyous support of Obama and the Dems. I’m not Jewish but thank them for their support of the Dems.

The Republican Party will have him on the payroll as a high priced consultant in a flash if ClearChannel goes belly up.

Hope everyone saw Sara’s fantastic article next door.

YES!!!

Very effective. Any other anchor sponsors of his (Limbaugh’s, Bill-O’s, etc.) should be advised that their products will be boycotted until such time as they pull their ads.

I’m not sure anything is quite as effective as striking directly at the revenue streams. It works.

I can’t wait for Murdoch’s online news sites to switch to pay-to-puke. I don’t think he can pull it off. His print rags are already losing tons of money and he thinks the what’s-the-intertoobz? crowd is going to bail him out?

Read Sara’s post on fascism.

Glad to hear it. See my #12.

I’m enjoying this. Thanks!

He and they have been edging this way rhetorically since whenever. Today was just the moment they pulled the trigger.

At the same time today, the front groups are now splitting the baby by insisting that the people they are front-loading the town halls with aren’t the same ones who are being disruptive.

Yep, the plan is right on track.

Does anyone know who the big sponsors of Rush are? Or is all the crap local?

I have a friend who plans like this. We don’t let him plan anything any more.

The right does this every time the left brings up fascism.. pivot and attack with lunacy… accusing the left of the same. It matters not one bit to them whether they make any sense.

It’s a mix.

Remember wingnut birther Orly Taitz? Guess who she represents?

Start here and scroll down to find her as a delegate to AIPAC speaking about the need to gloss over the Franklin/Rosen/AIPAC investigation:

Trial doesn’t worrymany AIPAC delegates

Then note that once it became obvious that she’d forged a birth certificate, she fled the country – to Tel Aviv!

Crusade claiming Obama isn’t eligible to be president

Orly Taitz is an Agent Provocateur for Israel and AIPAC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_provacateur

Nice technique outlined — looks as though the Republicans are putting it to good use:

“It makes no difference whatever whether they laugh at us or revile us, whether they represent us as clowns or criminals; the main thing is that they mention us, that they concern themselves with us again and again, and that we gradually in the eyes of the workers themselves appear to be the only power that anyone reckons with at the moment. …”

“[O]ne can never count on protection on the part of the authorities; on the contrary, experience shows that it always and exclusively benefits the disturbers. For the sole actual result of intervention by the authorities-that is, the police-was at best to dissolve, in other words, to close the meeting. And that was the sole aim and purpose of the hostile disturbers.” […]

“If through some sort of threats it becomes known to the authorities that there is danger of a meeting being broken up, they do not arrest the threateners, but forbid the others, the innocent, to hold the meeting, and what is more, the run-of-the-mill police mind is mighty proud of such wisdom. They call this a ‘precautionary measure for the prevention of an illegal act.’

“Thus, the determined gangster is always in a position to make political activity and efforts impossible for decent people. In the name of law and order, the state authority gives in to the gangster and requests the others please not to provoke him.”

RNC instructions to the disrupters, to the ‘threateners’? Nope. Not quite so current as that. Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf.

Tactically a bit more difficult, but not impossible. Hitting at the bank account is what gets their attention.

All they could hope for was to raise the temperature and cloud every issue so densely that there is no discernible policy to grapple with.

Mission Accomplished.

resoponse to blue toe…

No one is untouchable.

People run corporations and they are responsible to their significant others, siblings and children. Also, these people want to be popular in their clubs, restaurants, resorts, etc.

They do NOT want to be seen as a negative factor in civilization evolution by these people.

Point out the oblivious. State it again and again. Boycott the advertisers. You’ll see a RUSH for retirement.

Thyssen!

Joining us now from Tel Aviv, Orly Taitz

I think Rove is advising Rush. Seriously. It’s the accuse the opposition of exactly what you’re doing.

Yep. Targeting local advertisers might be most effective, particularly in these times. Once a month I take an rental property owner’s check to BoA. I hate going there. They have one of those pin number things mounted next to the window. When I present the deposit slip they would ask me to enter my pin number. When I say it’s not my account the teller starts her schpeel. I politely tell her I would never bank at BoA because I don’t like their business practices. They quit going through the routine with me a couple months ago.

A great piece by Sara Robinson. Has anyone forwarded it to the Obama administration, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi. FDR took on the American fascists head on. Obama will likely want to work out a compromise.

Either Cheney.

Some of his sponsors
Overstock.com, Neptune Society, Oreck, AutoZone, Red Lobster, Select Comfort, and Pfizer just to name a few.

When Dresser went public in the 1920s, it turned to W.A. Harriman & Co., whose president was George Herbert Walker, grandfather and namesake to former president Bush. Prescott Bush, the former president’s father, helped organize Dresser and select its new president, H. Neil Mallon. Prescott Bush eventually sat on the board and by 1941, still held 1,900 shares of Dresser stock. Mallon was so close to former president Bush that he described him in his autobiography as “surrogate uncle and father-confessor.” One of his sons, Neil Mallon Bush, is named after him. After World War II, Mallon employed George H.W. Bush and Dresser executives expected him to take over the company, according to journalist Darwin Payne, who wrote a history of Dresser. Instead, the former president left to prospect for oil.

While Cheney saw sound business reasons for acquiring Dresser, there was a problem in its past — the use of asbestos in Harbison-Walker division products.”

GW included the issue in his State of the Union speech in 2005.

“To make our economy stronger and more competitive, America must reward, not punish, the efforts and dreams of entrepreneurs. Small business is the path of advancement, especially for women and minorities, so we must free small businesses from needless regulation and protect honest job-creators from junk lawsuits. (Applause.) Justice is distorted, and our economy is held back by irresponsible class-actions and frivolous asbestos claims — and I urge Congress to pass legal reforms this year.”

ASBESTOS AT GROUND ZERO?

WOW, WHAT A COINCIDENCE!

A statement about discovery of asbestos at higher than safe levels in dust samples from lower Manhattan was changed to state that “samples confirm previous reports that ambient air quality meets OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) standards and consequently is not a cause for public concern.”

Language in an EPA draft stating that asbestos levels in some areas were three times higher than national standards was changed to “slightly above the 1 percent trigger for defining asbestos material.”

This sentence was added to a Sept. 16 news release: “Our tests show that it is safe for New Yorkers to go back to work in New York’s financial district.” It replaced a statement that initial monitors failed to turn up dangerous samples.

A warning on the importance of safely handling ground zero cleanup, due to lead and asbestos exposure, was changed to say that some contaminants had been noted downtown but “the general public should be very reassured by initial sampling.”

http://www.commondreams.org/he…..823-03.htm

COLLEGE STUDENTS DYING FROM INHALED ASBESTOS:

http://www.bupipedream.com/pip…..hp?id=3259

ALL SO HALLIBURTON COULD REMOVE THE WTC ASBESTOS LIABILITY FROM ITS BOOKS:

The WTC was a $15 billion HALLIBURTON liability.

THE NAZI’S ARE HERE ALRIGHT – ACCUSING OTHERS OF THAT WHICH THEY ARE DOING THEMSELVES.

I heard a lecture on the rise of the Nazi Party and business interests and the lecturer said something to the effect of, “Don’t look at who Hitler supported and favoured. Look at who supported Hitler.”

Rupert Murdoch was willing to lose $100,000,000 million dollars a year for five years until Fox began to turn a profit. Even if every corporate sponsor bailed on Limbaugh I have no doubt that wealthy American fascists would kick in to insure Limbaugh stay on the air, the Svengali of American fascism.

Interesting. Just this afternoon I dropped into a local joint to grab a sandwich. As I walked in the door I saw Beck’s show blaring on the electric TV box machine. I went up to the counter, asked to speak to the owner, and when that individual came over, I told her that I had fully intended to drop a couple bucks on some lunch, but since I could not (and would not) abide Glenn Beck, I had decided to pass. The stunned look remained on her face as I walked out the door.

Wait. Nancy and Harry can read? Who knew?

Excellent.

The Weekly Neocon loses over a million a year and he hangs on to it.

where is she from originally?

Good for you!

Sometimes it’s not about turning a profit but insuring power.

the other day i went to bank of america to cash a check one of their account holders had written to me for $200. i showed them my drivers’ license. they took my fingerprint to cash the check. i had never seen that before.

Heard this somewhere but don’t remember where. *g*

And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin a bar of Alice’s Restaurant and walking out. They may think it’s an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice’s Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may thinks it’s a movement.

Get real!

Murdock doesn’t run a 501c3or similar organization and can’t accept “gifts.”

A drop in ad revenue would doom RUSH.

Every bank does that with non-account holders. They didn’t charge you a commission for cashing it? Regions gets 3% for any check over $100.

No mug shot? “g”

IOW ShotoJamf, send your friends to do the same.

no commission. i really did not like giving them a fingerprint.

and twain, no mugshot either.

i didn’t particularly trust the person who gave me the check so i wanted to cash it at their bank rather than putting it in my account and having to check back and see if it was good. bad experience.

Rush compared Obama to Hitler saying that Hiter only met with his Cabinet ones. I think Obama meets with his Cabinet a bit more frequently

Rush also made an error today. He said Hitler’s first act when elected was legislate how lobsters were to be cooked. Rush said Hitler wanted them to be boiled. In fact Hitler was opposed to the boiling of crustaceans.

If Rush gets the lobsters wrong..gosh what else is he wrong about?

Good for you!!! A fine lesson for all of us.

Use a credit union if you can. I wouldn’t use a bank unless I absolutely had to.

BLUEPRINT THAT TODAY’S REPUBLICAN PARTY IS FOLLOWING RELIGIOUSLY……

“Propaganda must always address itself to the broad masses of the people. (…) All propaganda must be presented in a popular form and must fix its intellectual level so as not to be above the heads of the least intellectual of those to whom it is directed. (…) The art of propaganda consists precisely in being able to awaken the imagination of the public through an appeal to their feelings, in finding the appropriate psychological form that will arrest the attention and appeal to the hearts of the national masses. The broad masses of the people are not made up of diplomats or professors of public jurisprudence nor simply of persons who are able to form reasoned judgment in given cases, but a vacillating crowd of human children who are constantly wavering between one idea and another. (…) The great majority of a nation is so feminine in its character and outlook that its thought and conduct are ruled by sentiment rather than by sober reasoning. This sentiment, however, is not complex, but simple and consistent. It is not highly differentiated, but has only the negative and positive notions of love and hatred, right and wrong, truth and falsehood.” – Adolph Hitler from Mein Kampf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_propaganda

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For the like of all that is holy, when will the ADL come down on this asshole?

Never.

Or does Abe Foxman need that right-wing money too much to let anti-semetic, racist assholes be called on their offensiveness?

He might like the money, but what he really needs is for Rush to keep pushing the Likud/Kadima line, and everything else is secondary. (Kinda like the deal the Israeli Cons have cut with American conservative evangelical Christians, whose main interest in keeping Israel around is so it can be destroyed during Armageddon.)

Wasn’t AIG the insurer of the trade towers?

You know, I have wondered why anyone bothers to mention the anal cyst. Yes, he’s reprehensible and all like there, but I have one thought that helps me to accept him in my universe, and it is this.

I’m 72 years old, and I feel confident that I will hear news of his suffering a lingering, painful illness, and I will know that there will be nothing anyone can do to remove the pain because of his long and continued concerted process of becoming too toxic for the painkillers to work. I just hope he has enough money left at that time to entice some compromising doctor to keep him alive as long as possible.

Sorry. He’s a rich cyst and will be stuffed with fentanyl suppositories when all else fails.

ROTF.. he’s an oozing fissure on an anal cyst.

Rush (me, myself and I) is getting just what he wants attention and higher ratings.