The memory that comes to my mind — I don’t want to press the analogy too hard, but I think it’s worth thinking about — is late Weimar Germany. There were people tea partiers with real grievances, and the Nazis Obama Administration gave them an answer. ‘It’s the fault of the Jews and the Bolsheviks Republicans and Conservatives and we’ve got to protect ourselves from them, and that will take care of them.’ And you know what happened…

I mean, seriously. If you want to make stupid analogies, this is much more apt. Rush & co. aren’t in charge of anything and the people who are in power are blaming and trying to shut up their political rivals.

Just dumb.

The memory that comes to my mind — I don’t want to press the analogy too hard, but I think it’s worth thinking about — is late Weimar Germany. There were people with real grievances, and the Nazis gave them an answer. ‘It’s the fault of the Jews and the Bolsheviks and we’ve got to protect ourselves from them, and that will take care of them.’ And you know what happened…

They picked up their “Socialist Mop” and went to work?

The only difference is that Marxists are internationalists and Nazis were German socialist nationalists.

I assume Chomsky has tenure. Once you have tenure, you can stop making sense.

zmdavid on October 16, 2009 at 11:48 AM

If you make sense, you will never get tenure to begin with. All tenured professors should be considered guilty until proven sane.

The man is a fraud and a demagogue.

Richard Land, a prominent Southern Baptist official, apologized for comparing health care legislation to Nazism and bestowing a ”Josef Mengele Award” on Obama health care adviser Zeke Emanuel.

move along, nothing to see here.

Said correctly: ‘It’s the fault of the GOP, Fox, and Limbaugh/Beck, and we’ve got to protect ourselves from them, and that will take care of them.’

FlameWarrior on October 16, 2009 at 1:44 PM

I’m loving that idea, pure genius.

FlameWarrior on October 16, 2009 at 1:44 PM

Excellent idea! I’m going to start doing that right away.

Let’s see how “smart” (or even educated) these people really are.

Even more from the Twilight Zone! Nick Gillespie of Reason writes:
Back in June, Interim White House Communications Director Anita Dunn chatted up her two favorite philosophers, Mao Zedong and Mother Theresa, to some audience that has now been repu…

Most will be convinced we’re heaping praise upon them because the word socialist appears in the label.

And, as they are fond of saying, we’re all socialists now.

At least three times in the opening chapter of his book Jonah Goldberg emphatically states that he doesn’t believe that liberals are fascists.

The book is about the historical roots of fascism and how, at the time, it emerged from what was then the political left.

I know, why bother?

SteveMG on October 16, 2009 at 12:55 PM

I agree. Not with the “why bother” but with the rest.
Nobody in this country really represents the classical, (my term), views of any of the ideologies in question so labels of fascist, communist, Marxist or NAZI are just insults rather then accurate descriptions. In my opinion all ideologies in this country are a mashed together form of all of them but some have a tendency to better resemble the classical forms. In my opinion liberals embrace far more of the concepts of fascism, communism, Marxism and socialism then do conservatives. As a life long resident of Massachusetts I make no claim to being a conservative but I find that liberalism as found in this country is just way to restrictive, overbearing and overreaching in its desires. I have a habit of calling liberals morons, idiots and children and that is mainly because to me they just can’t see that history is proving that leftest liberal ideologies just don’t work but they push for them anyway. What’s the definition of a fool? Somebody that does the same thing over and over expecting a different result?

It only goes to prove a point I’ve been making all along: stupidity is one of the only truly non-partisan things out there:
Add Noam Chomsky to the growing list of peopleusing the Nazi analogy lately. Speaking to the Commonwealth Club in San Fr…

Loved the line: ‘Where to start with this serial string of idiocies?’

Commentary Gold I tells ya, commentary gold!

Today, per Chomsky, it sounds like, you’re an evil conservative if you build in your backyard a crematorium.

We’re all supposed to have one. They’re all the rage.

I’ve got mine. How ‘bout you?

He saw something in the student anti-Vietnam rebellion during the 1970s that wasn’t really there. He thought it was a genuine cultural enlightenment when in fact it was a bunch of pampered little brats filled with self-importance and a sense of entitlement.

Chomsky is a tragic figure for that reason. He won’t admit he was wrong about his political judgments, and so his achievements go unrecognized, which is a shame.