Barrage From Left Includes Most of History's Villains (The leftist booboisie vs. Dubya)

The New York Daily News ^ | December 14, 2003 | John Leo

[quidnunc]

The hard left decided long ago that President Bush is Hitler. In maddened corners of the Internet and at swastika-choked anti-war marches, Bush is shown with a Nazi uniform or a Hitler mustache.

But does everyone on the far left believe this?

Not at all. Some think that Vice President Cheney is the real Hitler. He commands America's "storm-trooper legions," said former right-wing crackpot and current left-wing crackpot Lyndon LaRouche. Others think Donald Rumsfeld is Hitler (both men favored mountaintop retreats, the Action Coalition of Taos points out).

Many on the left believe that either former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer or Bush adviser Karl Rove is Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. Or maybe Pentagon adviser Richard Perle is related to Goebbels. The September issue of Vanity Fair suggested that Perle could be Goebbels' twin with side-by-side photos headlined "Separated at birth?"

Another vexing question about Rove: Is he Goebbels or Josef Mengele? Goebbels is the top choice among anti-war commentators, but a writer to the MetaFilter site said: "Karl Rove made up stories about John McCain, just as Josef Mengele conducted medical experiments on children in Auschwitz."

The common charge that Bush is Benito Mussolini is controversial — many leftists insist that the Mussolini role is reserved for Tony Blair, the junior partner of Bush's Hitler.

Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz is a challenge to lefty analysts, some of whom think his intellectual background is fascist (Jeffrey Steinberg in Executive Intelligence Review), while others believe he has Bolshevik roots (he is Leon Trotsky's ghost, according to Canadian journalist Jeet Heer).

Anyone who calls the Bush people fascists will get no argument from Princeton Prof. Sheldon Wolin, who says, "We are facing forms of domination that exceed the old vocabulary." So if you feel like calling somebody a fascist, go right ahead.

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[Mr. Silverback]

BUMP

[Mr. Silverback]

Coo-coo-ca-choo.

[William McKinley]

You did it now. You looked into a glass onion.

[hellinahandcart]

You looked into a glass onion.

I thought you had to look through the onion.

[cwb]

This is just one more example of why the Democrats will continue to lose Jewish votes as they minimize the brutallity that was Hitler and Fascism. The insult...and the irony, is that Bush has stopped a modern-day Hitler, who if others had reacted this decisively in the past, may have been able to prevent the Holocaust. The fact that we have many liberals in this country who can't see this, is a testament to their ignorance...and an insult to those who suffered under this type of brutallity.

[William McKinley]

Ok, nit picker. He looked through a glass onion. Sheesh. ;-)

[hellinahandcart]

(smiles approvingly at newly-harvested pile of nits)

[Moonmad27]

Great quote from Dennis Miller! I always wonder, who did the liberals mindlessly compare their enemies to BEFORE Hitler? "He...he's like a new Napoleon!" "He's worse than Kaiser Wilhelm!!!"