Rob Reiner: You know what this tea party movement reminds me of? Nazism
posted at 2:15 pm on October 23, 2010 by Allahpundit
I’d call this the intellectual highlight of last night’s Bill Maher show except that later Maher ended up asking Levi Johnston if he uses condoms now, so, hey. This is what I meant the other day about Democrats wanting to lash out at voters for being racist and crazy and Hitlerian enough to elect Republicans, but that’s too much of a risk given how many centrists and independents are committed to voting for tea party candidates next month. You don’t want to alienate any constituencies you might otherwise be able to win back in 2012. Better for the White House to stick to a more gently condescending line about voters “not thinking clearly” or whatever and let B-list surrogates like Rachel Maddow and Meathead here do the heavy lifting.
Reiner and his fellow travelers are a lot more comfortable with Hitler analogies than I am, but if we’re going to play a game that lamentably stupid and offensive, I suppose I could chip in by noting that it ain’t the GOP making headlines lately for fearmongering speeches about shadowy foreigners threatening to destroy our democracy from within. And the hate! Like P.J. O’Rourke says, don’t forget the hate:
They don’t just hate our Republican, conservative, libertarian, strict constructionist, family values guts. They hate everybody’s guts. And they hate everybody who has any. Democrats hate men, women, blacks, whites, Hispanics, gays, straights, the rich, the poor, and the middle class.
Democrats hate Democrats most of all. Witness the policies that Democrats have inflicted on their core constituencies, resulting in vile schools, lawless slums, economic stagnation, and social immobility. Democrats will do anything to make sure that Democratic voters stay helpless and hopeless enough to vote for Democrats…
This is not an election on November 2. This is a restraining order. Power has been trapped, abused and exploited by Democrats. Go to the ballot box and put an end to this abusive relationship. And let’s not hear any nonsense about letting the Democrats off if they promise to get counseling.
As always, there’s no political argument so obnoxious that the Maher audience won’t applaud for it provided that it comes from the right side. Big cheers for Reiner near the end here, natch. Exit question: Hey, is that Jake Tapper?
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No need, I already got the point Bishop was making.
I was just making a joke in the same vein, i.e the sycophantic state security apparatus never sleeps.
Difficultas_Est_Imperium on May 19, 2013 at 9:16 PM
Hey! This must be the first Sunday show appearance for a hobbit!
PD Quig on May 19, 2013 at 9:21 PM
Uranus.
My job takes me into the homes of anonymous people, and over the past 4+ years I have been amazed to see more than a few who literally had O’bama Shrines not only in their living rooms, but more frequently in their bedrooms. And these were all folks who are white.
Never saw that before, even with JFK or Reagan. To these fools, O’bama is The Pope.
Del Dolemonte on May 19, 2013 at 9:29 PM
to me he’s the Dope.
And there is no hope from that dope.
dmacleo on May 19, 2013 at 10:06 PM
The only hack here is HotAirLib.
Here’s Karl
In twitter comments Karl regrets that be didn’t cite the source of his information as a note and not a primary source.
In other words he still stands by his reporting. Just like the linked NRO story states.
gwelf on May 19, 2013 at 10:48 PM
Dealing with the Obama administration is much like catching a 3-4 year old child in an obvious lie.
landlines on May 19, 2013 at 11:17 PM
Weird.
workingclass artist on May 19, 2013 at 11:34 PM
Babe, if they put your brain on a razor blade it’d look like a BB rollin’ down a four lane highway…..
Long John Baldry, Mar Y Sol
Tenwheeler on May 19, 2013 at 11:49 PM
“WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?” “IT’S NOT RELEVANT”! “I DON’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT”. “WE ARE ALL UNFETTERED”. “IT MAY HAVE BEEN WRONG BUT IT WASN’T ILLEGAL”.
OBAMA’S LEGACY
inspectorudy on May 19, 2013 at 11:56 PM
And the big point… “Why were we working off notes?”
Because the White House didn’t allow copies of the e-mails to be distributed…
It was a limited release of some data with large restrictions… the way Obama plays everything. And a few people could see it for just a bit, but they couldn’t have a copy.
Why not let them have copies if they could see them?
Because letting them have a copy would get accurate quotes of course; and that wouldn’t be acceptable.
gekkobear on May 20, 2013 at 12:01 AM
Tea Partiers aren’t anti America. They advocate sticking with American ideas like those expressed in the Constitution. If they’re anti-American, then so was James Madison.
They probably represent a majority of the people who remember why America is different than most nations, and what gives individual Americans the ability to improve their lot in life.
A big central government can’t supply happiness or success. Heck, it can’t even supply toilet paper.
hawksruleva on May 20, 2013 at 12:37 AM
Its a good thing that I ate supper several hours ago because I would have puked my guts out after watching the horses ASS David Gregory on NBC’s hoax Sunday show. He’s another Chapstick addict. The only thing he did was chap his lips kissing Obama’s ASS for the whole show.
I know the answer to my own question but how in the hell can anybody with at least half a brain take this $h!t from Obama’s minions seriously
hamradio on May 20, 2013 at 1:01 AM
Because, you know, that targeting strategy could never be used against causes you favor.
ctwelve on May 20, 2013 at 2:07 AM
An idiot wrapped up in a moron !!!
hamradio on May 20, 2013 at 3:35 AM
Nice!
totherightofthem on May 20, 2013 at 7:08 AM
I’m guessing you stand ready to take a little more from him, though, right?
Go towel off. Your fear permeates the room.
totherightofthem on May 20, 2013 at 7:28 AM
Me guess, all the evils in the universe are the republicans fault. There can be no government big enough to counter all the ills that republicans do.
racquetballer on May 20, 2013 at 7:53 AM
I didn’t think the WH could do worse than Carney or Rice….until this clown…
easyt65 on May 20, 2013 at 8:12 AM
There is an achilles heel with Banghazi.It is where was zero when the terror types attacked.They can’t and won’t answer that one question,they will have to lie.
rodguy911 on May 20, 2013 at 8:14 AM
Release the kracken! Or, at least Obama’s transcripts from Harvard.
racquetballer on May 20, 2013 at 8:50 AM
First, this is to cover the fact two days of emails are still missing THE FIRST TWO DAYS! What is on them? Oh yeah, the really bad stuff.
Second- A sign your administration is in trouble is when it sends out the some intern looking fellow who is back from a college break!
It’s like “Dude, I don’t know what is going on, but these guys from the White House grabbed me on my way to the beach with my board and put this suit on me. They said if I keep repeating the same line over and over, they would take me to Subway afterward for a footlong! I mean who could say no! Knarly!”
Put “Biff” back in the closet and get someone who thinks they have future in politics worth risking to show up.
Right now the equation appears to be: Rats=sinking ship= get the F out!
just saying…
archer52 on May 20, 2013 at 8:54 AM
“The Law is Irrelevant.”
Words mean something!
When miller, head of the IRS, kept being asked over and over ‘don’t you think Congress needed to know what you know – about the scandals – the last time you appeared before us’ he repeated over and over ‘I answered the questions you asked.’ He implied he had no obligation to tell them anything, & it wasn’t his fault they ased the wrong questions. It was technical legalese BS – carefully chosen words to avoid answering their question while insisting to them that his misleading Congress was not wrong because he never technically lied.
When Strong used these 4 words he declared to the world what many of us already knew – the Constitution & U.S. Laws mean NOTHING to this President & his administration! His oath of office meant nothing, his vow to defend & uphold the Constitution & rule of law meant nothing. He declared his war on both of them before he was elected, vowing to fundamentally change the U.S. if elected. By using these 4 words, Strong identified this adminsitration – this President – as an ENEMY OF THE STATE who has intentionally violated the Constitution & law repeatedly…and a declaration that they have no intention of stopping.
easyt65 on May 20, 2013 at 9:02 AM
Back to Bill Clinton, and “is” .
Is it a lie or not.
A lie is a lie.
Is lie.
Is.
APACHEWHOKNOWS on May 20, 2013 at 9:32 AM
I’ve seen this once before,..
My grandmother was born in the 1890′s, raised two seperate sets of kids, one through the depression, outlived three husbands..
and kept till her dying day an FDR shrine, with portrait, candles, flower vases, little plaques..
I never understood why?.. but as an under 10 child never asked about it.
I can say without reservation, I loved Ronald Maximous Reagan, he was MY preside4nt. I voted for him, served under him as my CIC, and died a little bit inside the day he passed away. I’d lost my father all over again in a way…. but that’s my point, to me he was like a loved family member.
Never, did I have a shrine in my home about him, not a picture on the wall, no candles, no daily prayers for his soul.
Because all to many democrats aren’t looking for a hero.. but a demigod. Someone more than human who reaches them on a level we reserve for God only.. them.. he IS GOD.
I lost an uncle recently, didn’t go to his funeral, was not welcome. we were estranged, because of an argument over Reagan back almost 20 years ago.. He was stunned I was a republican, and he being a WW II vet, informed me, I was unAmerican, and almost a traitor because I wasn’t in the little guy’s FDR party..
It got ugly, and later when I said, let’s put our politics aside, and just be family..
he slammed the door in my face..
This is what we’re dealing with, their party is their church, the president of that party, God..
and apostates are to be shunned..
mark81150 on May 20, 2013 at 9:36 AM
HotAirLib,
Stand still we are trying to pee in your face and you keep moving and dodgeing and the subject change drill.
Face the pee.
awk
APACHEWHOKNOWS on May 20, 2013 at 9:37 AM
haha it is always fun to say this to lefties when dealing with them in person – shuts them up every time I’ve done it! :)
Anti-Control on May 20, 2013 at 9:41 AM
This is an administration in full retreat, and an agenda that is finished.
Progressives that have to resort to intimidation tactics support the contention that they are devoid of any future without the ability to suppress the truth.
itsspideyman on May 20, 2013 at 9:53 AM
Living Colour – “Cult Of Personality”
Anti-Control on May 20, 2013 at 9:53 AM
You’re comments lately have been cracking me up – good job! :)
Anti-Control on May 20, 2013 at 9:55 AM
Same here. To continue your thought, I NEVER thought to put up a shrine to him. I considered (and I’m sure he felt the same way) him my equal, a man I could look in the eye and shake his hand with pride.
But that’s the nature of America, and one of its special properties, the thought that all under the eyes of God are created equal.
itsspideyman on May 20, 2013 at 9:57 AM
Hal from the comments being laughed at, seems clearly in the if a democrat does it, it’s legal camp.. and if they have to break some eggs (citizens lives) so be it… he he he..
nice.. so political persecution is permissible..
as long as a liberal does it..
Clearest confession of fascism yet from it.
mark81150 on May 20, 2013 at 9:58 AM
…as you cite a conspiracy about the Republicans doctoring emails that can be debunked by the shining crystal administration releases the actual emails that shows that the Republicans doctored emails.
It’s funny that nobody on your side felt they had to wear the tinfoil hat for the “vast right-wing conspiracy” during the Clinton administration. Back then “conspiracy” wasn’t the commit-able word that it becomes today through the standard pattern of lib’s changing rules and what is and what isn’t politic.
Axeman on May 20, 2013 at 10:02 AM
Exactly.. you never got the feeling he felt superior to you, that were you to meet in a tavern or park, he’d shake your hand and talk to you, and actually care about your opinion.. on a purely neighborly man to man way.
I cannot see any president since,.. well maybe George Bush,.. to have that quality..
every democrat has the Adlie Stevenson edgey.. “what the hell do you want” attitude towards the little guy. LBJ had an ability to ACT like he cared, but he didn’t..
Obama is the worst of that subspecies..
The born to be King and rule you all mentality.. like it was some great favor you’re allowed to even exist on the same planet.. I knew in my gut, he was toxic, when an aide of his remarked, he was the only president not awed by the Oval Office.. that he put his feet on the desk carved from the timber of the HMS Resolute..
That kind of blind hubris.. entitlement leaves you speechless..
Mr. Reagan never set foot in that office without his suit jacket on, and insisted his staff do the same.. as did both Bush’s.
and Obama puts his feet on the desk.. as if it were carved just for him personally. Unbelievable.
mark81150 on May 20, 2013 at 10:12 AM
Burt Prelutsky, a former lib/911-conservative, once wrote that he realized that libs don’t like each over that much, either. Their main communal bond is banding against the hated conservative. If you break that bond, you’re nothing to these people. No amount of agreement to lib causes saved Burt or Bernie Goldberg from being pushed further and further to the right.
Axeman on May 20, 2013 at 10:15 AM
The e-mails were doctored but the birth certificate wasn’t.
BWAHAHAHAHA
Bevan on May 20, 2013 at 10:19 AM
This sort of idolization reminds me of much communist history I have read & searched over & over again.
The times & events are so eerily similar in many, many ways.
People are afraid of Liberty.
And I admit, being free & being responsible for your own decisions, yourself, & your family & community is hard.
It is exactly why Liberty never really does last in society.
Bcs people are mostly scared of life & they do everything they can to avoid living it free.
Being a slave is much easier.
Badger40 on May 20, 2013 at 10:49 AM
Well put, and thank you for your service.
itsspideyman on May 20, 2013 at 10:53 AM
Agreed Badger. Freedom is not for the faint-hearted. It takes no small amount of courage.
itsspideyman on May 20, 2013 at 10:57 AM
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