Video: The obligatory, surreal “candidate speaks at birthday party for Hitler” clip
posted at 1:01 pm on April 24, 2008 by Allahpundit
Lest I be accused of playing the conservative version of “name that party,” let’s acknowledge again up front that this tool is indeed running as a Republican, although of course not as the Republican Party nominee. (He’s also, god help us, an Annapolis grad.) There’s nothing here that you wouldn’t already have gleaned from yesterday’s post but watch a minute or two anyway for the hallucinogenic experience of a candidate for the U.S. Congress standing before a giant portrait of Adolf Hitler, blackshirts on either side, droning on in apparent obliviousness to his surroundings. It plays like sketch comedy gone horribly wrong — a politician following his instinct to pander to whatever audience is placed in front of him, no matter how loathsome that audience might be.
Why do I say “apparent obliviousness,” incidentally? Skip ahead to around 4:50 and watch for 60 seconds. He claimed he didn’t realize who it was he was addressing. Didn’t he?
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How is that man in the picture behind him? I think that might’ve been the first clue.
lorien1973 on April 24, 2008 at 1:04 PM
Also, it looks like nazis have gone green. Look at the green swaztikas instead of black. They care about the environment!
lorien1973 on April 24, 2008 at 1:05 PM
Gee, I don’t get it…what’s with all the fuhrer over his comments?
James on April 24, 2008 at 1:07 PM
Anyone know if he is a Ron Paul backer ?
William Amos on April 24, 2008 at 1:10 PM
Is it possible that he has a public school education? That would explain a lot of things.
OhEssYouCowboys on April 24, 2008 at 1:10 PM
It’s just that once this guy gets going there’s no gestappin him.
exlibris on April 24, 2008 at 1:11 PM
I bet he thought he was speaking to the Charlie Chaplin Society?
OhEssYouCowboys on April 24, 2008 at 1:11 PM
I must heil your superior wit.
Side note…this has to be the very first Godwin-proof thread in existence.
James on April 24, 2008 at 1:15 PM
Reminds me of old times.
GermanAtheist on April 24, 2008 at 1:16 PM
The (R) next to this candidate’s name clearly stands for “retard.”
ScottMcC on April 24, 2008 at 1:18 PM
AP, please, i beg you to copy the relevant video parts to your youtube account without the Nazi contacts. These fags don’t deserve any kind of publicity. Never forgive.
Aristotle on April 24, 2008 at 1:18 PM
Maybe he respected the Nazi’s military prowess? Probably not…
blankminde on April 24, 2008 at 1:20 PM
Wow. Quite the slimeball.
TheUnrepentantGeek on April 24, 2008 at 1:20 PM
By the way…I hate Indiana Nazis.
James on April 24, 2008 at 1:20 PM
Annapolis grad? Prosecutor (means he went to law school)? I’m not even going to give him the benefit of moronness or ignorance. Especially in pandering WRT “White community”. The guy is scum.
rbj on April 24, 2008 at 1:20 PM
Hey, what’s the fuhrer over this video?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on April 24, 2008 at 1:25 PM
Damnit! You beat me to it!
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on April 24, 2008 at 1:26 PM
On the contrary, uber alles, your comments are funnier.
exlibris on April 24, 2008 at 1:28 PM
He was only following orders when he gave that speech.
pedestrian on April 24, 2008 at 1:30 PM
Doesn’t everyone get that this was his audition for Werner Klemperer‘s role in the new “Hogan’s Heroes” movie?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on April 24, 2008 at 1:30 PM
you guys do know there were Nazi party rallies in America since before WW2 right?
RMC1618 on April 24, 2008 at 1:32 PM
Yeah, some people even held them in their own liebensraums.
James on April 24, 2008 at 1:33 PM
Typical modern day neo-nazi. They lie about their affiliations and lie about the holocaust.
Blake on April 24, 2008 at 1:35 PM
?
RMC1618 on April 24, 2008 at 1:36 PM
Sorry, I misspelled it. Though with German, you can hardly tell.
lebensraum
1 : territory believed especially by Nazis to be necessary for national existence or economic self-sufficiency
Basically, living space. Or in my post, living rooms.
James on April 24, 2008 at 1:39 PM
Did somebody watch “Get Smoochy”?
mojo on April 24, 2008 at 1:40 PM
James on April 24, 2008 at 1:39 PM
There was a huge one held in New York City before America entered the war, but i can’t remember the name of the place.
RMC1618 on April 24, 2008 at 1:41 PM
Well, I listened to the whole thing. Based on his speech I gather that he:
* Believes that STDs are a Jewish plot to make White women barren
* Thinks that discipline and order among the white race are very important
* Gathers what he knows about other “cultures” (as he put it) from defending drug dealers and addicts
* Failed his college history exams
He not only knew who he was talking to, he was goose-stepping right beside them.
Will Obama rebuke him?
lodestonejames on April 24, 2008 at 1:43 PM
James on April 24, 2008 at 1:39 PM
Oh yeah i found it, it was MADISON SQUARE GARDEN!
Here is some video of it from youtube:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NrmY3QW8pqs
RMC1618 on April 24, 2008 at 1:45 PM
Are these the marxist-nazis who are suppressing intelligent design, or they just regular nazis?
Ars Moriendi on April 24, 2008 at 1:45 PM
A recent interview captured this exchange.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on April 24, 2008 at 1:50 PM
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on April 24, 2008 at 1:50 PM
are you sure it was a reporter, are you sure it wasn’t Brian?
RMC1618 on April 24, 2008 at 1:53 PM
I’m trying to say this without being insulting…but we were just having some fun wordplay. I never doubted the existence of American Nazi rallies, even big ones. Of course, you are historically accurate.
Nazis, of course, were never really known for their sense of humor…that’s why it’s enjoyable to poke fun at them.
James on April 24, 2008 at 1:54 PM
Man, I watched the first 15 seconds of this until the young kid crossed in front of the screen and then I shut it off!
How in the name of God anyone can celebrate ANYTHING connected to what was, while he was alive and taking up space and air on the planet, the living breathing epitome of evil in the flesh is beyond my comprehension!
pilamaye on April 24, 2008 at 1:56 PM
James on April 24, 2008 at 1:54 PM
now they’r relagated to their basements, open field rallies, and the Rockafellers.
RMC1618 on April 24, 2008 at 1:56 PM
Nice catch.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on April 24, 2008 at 1:58 PM
Nice to see they brought the kids out for the big event.
dont taze me bro on April 24, 2008 at 1:59 PM
Nice catch.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on April 24, 2008 at 1:58 PM
did you catch mine?
RMC1618 on April 24, 2008 at 1:59 PM
Disgusting.
nailinmyeye on April 24, 2008 at 2:03 PM
America has them by the millions. Only, the celebration concerns Marx, Lenin, Castro and Che.
OhEssYouCowboys on April 24, 2008 at 2:09 PM
I’m wondering if this guy goes to a BLT church.
Buy Danish on April 24, 2008 at 2:09 PM
That is my favorite episode in the history of Family Guy.
wherestherum on April 24, 2008 at 2:13 PM
What’s the problem with Hitler? All that stuff he did was well before I was born; so “bygones”, right?
I think that was Obama’s response to Ayres’ terrorism. Why doesn’t the same defense work with Nazis?
You know, if it happened before you were an adult, it doesn’t count and you can’t judge anyone based on it.
I read somewhere something like ‘those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it’ or some such; but that was written before I was born too, so it doesn’t apply to me either.
gekkobear on April 24, 2008 at 2:24 PM
From his website:
Thanks, Tony. We’ll keep that in mind (as I’m sure you do).
Rick on April 24, 2008 at 2:27 PM
I belong to several ww2 forums which tend to be 30% nazi. The nazis all believe JFK was the greatest US president. Not sure why. Maybe, it’s b/c of his famous, “I’m a jelly donut” speech.
Blake on April 24, 2008 at 2:30 PM
This guy can’t claim ignorance, the previous speaker was talking about the Hitler painting and Hitlers Birthday right before he spoke and the guy was sitting right there!
Chakra Hammer on April 24, 2008 at 2:39 PM
I thought about linking to this video in an earlier comment thread, but thought better of it.
I also think this Nazi (Natioanl Socialist Workers Party member) ought to join the Democrats. Pronto. Hell, we ought to pay his membership fees!
HotAirJosef on April 24, 2008 at 2:39 PM
Happy 115th birthday to you,
Happy 115th birthday to you,
Happy 115th birthday, Mr. Thousand Reich Fuehrer
Happy 115th birthday to you.
Who?
Hening on April 24, 2008 at 2:55 PM
Did anyone claim that Blacks invented AIDS to kill off the White population?
Hening on April 24, 2008 at 2:57 PM
Oh, he knew AP. He knew. He’s part of the problem.
HotAirJosef on April 24, 2008 at 3:04 PM
Speaking of pandering…
And yeah, this guy has no political future. This is good. We caught it before he was able to get elected.
Esthier on April 24, 2008 at 3:04 PM
I hate Illinois Nazis.
marc@hubsandspokes on April 24, 2008 at 3:05 PM
Oh dear god I am so happy right now. Of all the thousands of lawyers in Indiana my wife hires the Nazi. lol
jones on April 24, 2008 at 3:05 PM
You might get a good Jewish lawyer to take your case for free.
Hening on April 24, 2008 at 3:25 PM
As the white community we have to stop giving our money to pornographers…yeah that will happen…
right2bright on April 24, 2008 at 3:29 PM
So “we” just need to slap down those “Jooish pr0n peddlers” eh, Parteigenosse Zirkle?
Tell me again: Why did we ever STOP shooting Nazis?
Because this is what happens when you stop performing that vital civic duty.
Misha I on April 24, 2008 at 5:28 PM
Need to Correct you AP. Not an Naval Academy grad. Attended 2 years and change then medically discharged. So 2 years in service but not a graduate. (According to his bio)
Unfortunately, he did graduate from my alma mater.
Not to be nit-picky, but didn’t want Annapolis to be besmirched for no reason.
New_Jersey_Buckeye on April 24, 2008 at 5:38 PM
He needs to learn that if you promise to talk to any group, your message matters. I would have loved to talk to this group. I don’t think they would have liked it, and I probably wouldn’t have been invited back(if I made it out alive) but it would have been fun.
Corsair on April 24, 2008 at 5:39 PM
Are you sure you read it in a book? Are you sure it wasn’t… nothing?
BadgerHawk on April 24, 2008 at 8:54 PM
“Nazis. I hate Illinois Nazis.” — “Joliet” Jake Blues
Theophile on April 25, 2008 at 1:48 AM