Bush ‘Nazi’ Smear Unworthy of Critics

New York Observer ^ | 10/27/03 | Joe Conason

[Maria S]

I have been hearing this particularly foul bit of misinformation being spewed by various liberals. Maybe this article, by one of their own kind, will serve to dispel this attempt to smear President Bush.

[The_Victor]

I have been hearing this particularly foul bit of misinformation being spewed by various liberals. Maybe this article, by one of their own kind, will serve to dispel this attempt to smear President Bush.

Opening line of the article:
Liberal invective against George W. Bush has not yet descended to the depths plumbed by conservatives in their crusade against the Clintons,...

When you start the article like this you lose all credibility. Clinton earned the attacks against him, and conservative were right about him. You cannot make that case for the liberals and Bush.

[Ann Archy]

Joe "Dead Eyes" Conason is one POS. What a pitiful person he is.

[Brilliant]

He says that the liberal invective against Bush has not yet plumbed to the depths of the conservative invective against Clinton. Give me an example of the invective against Clinton that was lower than calling Bush a Nazi.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Hmmm... Wasn't Oskar Schindler "a Nazi industrial magnate"?

[Cobra64]

In the mid-1980s, I bought hundreds of tons of stainless steel from Thyssen. I guess that makes me a Nazi.

[Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek]

It is interesting that, while listing all of these old connections to the German industrialists who helped Hitler come to power, Conason bypasses the ready examples of American political dynasties who helped the Soviets hang on to power, for example, Al Gore's father, who was in the pocket of Armand Hammer, financial agent of the Soviet regime for most of his life.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=14638

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=14935

http://www.usatoday.com/money/books/mbook028.htm

http://www.mugu.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/Issues/marx/us-commie.html

A useful discussion of serving as financiers to totalitarians:
http://www.washingtondispatch.com/printer_6928.shtml

http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/bolshevik_revolution/chapter_11.htm

http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/bolshevik_revolution/index.html

[Tamzee]

Methinks some on the left are getting worried at how shrill and ridiculous they appear to the middle and more traditional Democrats. Just their true colors shining through ;-)

[pabianice]

Funny. Not one word about the documented collaboration between Ted Kennedy's father and Hitler...

[LS1Z28Chris]

I doubt whether or not they are capable of seeing that simple truth. Their visceral attacks against the President are alienating them from the center of the electorate. This is basically what Senator Miller is saying. Their message only appeals to those left of Stalin. The average American does not buy their arguments.

[technomage]

I have been hearing this particularly foul bit of misinformation being spewed by various liberals. Maybe this article, by one of their own kind, will serve to dispel this attempt to smear President Bush.

Maria, this is just another smear article trying to link the Bush family with the Nazis.

The title is misleading, and was written as 'cover' for the smear. This is how libs operate. They believe they are being sneaky, and many times they are. This one was too obvious. You need to re-read this a few times.

[Thom Pain]

"...George W. Bush. He is, among other things, a truly bad President."

What, then, would be the accurate way to describe Klintoon? If W is a truly bad President, then please, Lord, give me the truly bad ones over and over and...

[PolishProud]

Let me get this right. Although the accusation of ties between the Bushs and Nazis is correct, It doesn't rise to the level of Clinton bashing. Goebbels would be prod. This writer leaves his foul scent on the Bush name, but is lauded for his reasonable criticism.

[Paul Atreides]

Liberal invective against George W. Bush has not yet descended to the depths plumbed by conservatives in their crusade against the Clintons

Nice way to begin an article: with a whopper of a lie.

[liberty or death]

"Henry Ford was a Nazi collaborator. Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. was a Nazi sympathizer."
Two thirds of the way into the liberal hit piece.
Not much, just an honorable mention to assuage their guilt.

[Holden Magroin]

Liberals always call their opponents "Nazis." The latest edition of the Southern Poverty Law Center's magazine lists the NRA as a "hate group."

[jordan8]

In America, the sins of the fathers are not held against the children, nor should they be.
Are you kidding me, Joe? This is the very basis for all the Affirmative Action laws on the books. It is even used to justify riot and murder.

How is trading with pre-war Germany morally worse than trading with China, which e'en as we speak is wiping Tibet off the face of the earth, today? (It's also curious and interesting that trade with Imperial Japan is never scrutinized in this manner.)

[Tamzee]

The average American does not buy their arguments.

And now the average Americans are finally seeing this a bit for themselves, lovely :-)

The hard-left is still trying to keep middle-America from seeing it too clearly, though, MoveOn.org just removed it's link connected to the socialist party website. Yep... nothing to see here, folks, just your average clean-cut Americans LOL

[First_Salute]

Too many in "corporate America" are communist "Red" Chinese collaborators, in addition to the "liberal media" who have been communist "Red" Chinese collaborators and Stalinist collaborators since before World War II. Tens of millions of people have died by the communists and their sympathizing collaborators' [im]"moral support."

Which is not to diminish the role of the NAZI sympathizers, but to lump them all together into their fascist regimes whose number one product was death for the people.

[The Iguana]

Whatever one may think otherwise about him, Conason deserves some credit for calling out the more insane hyperbole that has taken hold of the fever swamps of the Left.

One wishes he had more company.