It's Your Fault We Called You Hitler!

WSJ Opinion Journal/Best of the Web ^ | 1/6/2004 | James Taranto

[MeekOneGOP]

And speaking of MoveOn.org and their Socialist causes ...

Scary stuff, folks, imho ...

Exposed: Pelosi's Socialist Ties

Pelosi leader of 'Progressive Caucus'

From those links, these excerpts ...

"DSA/USA, the 'Democratic Socialists of America' are the U.S. arm of the Socialist International. They share the symbol of the fist holding the rose, and they share the tasks to be accomplished — in our case, an altogether different America ...

"Some time ago — the date is missing from the descriptions — 58 members of the U.S. House of Representatives formed a subdivision of the Democratic Socialists of America and called it the Progressive Caucus. Their statement of purpose, as well as their membership list, formed an integral part of the dsausa Web site (www.dsausa.org ). The membership list appeared on the screen with the continuous background of the fist holding the rose, should anyone have missed the connection with the Socialist International."

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the likely [she is now] new minority leader in the House of Representatives, serves on the executive committee of the socialist-leaning Progressive Caucus, a bloc of about 60 votes or nearly 30 percent of the minority vote in the lower chamber.

The Democratic Socialists of America's chief organizing goal is to work within the Democratic Party and remove the stigma attached to "socialism" in the eyes of most Americans.

"Stress our Democratic Party strategy and electoral work," explains an organizing document of the DSA. "The Democratic Party is something the public understands, and association with it takes the edge off. Stressing our Democratic Party work will establish some distance from the radical subculture and help integrate you to the milieu of the young liberals."

Progressive Caucus

[Recovering_Democrat]

Is the Democratic primary race a political campaign or is it "Lord of the Flies"?

Typical Dean Apparatchik lying in wait for a Capitalist to pass by.

[alloysteel]

Who's the victim here? By now, we all know it is MoveOn.org, crying about "See what you made me do!"

Nobody had ever made somebody else do, or not do, anything. Volition of action is still under the control of whoever is inside the skull, and the calculation is always, "Am I better off because I do this action, or am I worse off?" Actions have consequences, and some actions have better consequences than others. "Better" can be highly subjective.

[Forever Union]

Get over it, already.

[Peach]

We have a troll, I see.

[Poohbah]

Damn, that was quick! Viking Kitten silent ZOT! technique...

[Libertina]

How DARE the Republicans draw attention to our failed advertising campaign to attack George Hitler er... Bush! We are terribly upset and angry at this politics of personal destruction by the extreme Right Wing!

[Lucky Lyn]

While your at the website check out the list of judges!! OMG!

[Peach]

I ran into him on another thread and did a search and viola - there he was - spreading his love and cheer. LOL

[Looking for Diogenes]

The ads get posted to the MoveOn Web site because of a now-acknowledged lack of adult supervision...

Even as hard as the moderators work on FR it too could be accused of the same lack of discretion. From the posts I've seen just about everybody calls somebody Hitler (or a Nazi or a fascist) around here.

Unless we want FR to remove every post that refers to "Hitlery" I think this is a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

[Chunga]

Is this worth working ourselves into a Führer?

[The UnVeiled Lady]

Dear #14, went to your link and found this... Fox News analyst defames MoveOn Last week, a Fox Watch monitor caught an outright lie during one of Fox News' flagship programs, The O'Reilly Factor. In a discussion of progressive websites, Fox News analyst Liz Trotta said: "Well, how many people do you think -- who look at MoveOn.org, know it's affiliated with the World Socialist Movement..." This outrageous and false charge could only have been intended to discredit the work of MoveOn.org and its members. It is akin to the tactics of the McCarthy era.

Yes that is a lie, since MoveOn.org had their link on the COMMUNIST PARTY website.

[Johnny_Cipher]

Am I the only one who sees a certain delicious irony in an organization that calls itself "MoveOn" being unable to, you guessed it, move on?

[JusPasenThru]

The weirdest thing is that if you just sit and wait awhile, two ads will appear spontaneously. One says that Bush is Hitler. The other says Bush is the greatest president since Lincoln. Weird.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Nope, you're not. It's hilarious that "MoveOn" can't move on from 2000.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Ooh... I missed that piece of irony.

[Holly_P]

The Rats playbook: I didn't say what I said. I didn't do what I did.

Yep! Hillary is back pedaling today over the slur of Gahndi she made in St. Louis.

[Political Junkie Too]

The thing is, they're the ones calling conservatives, Bush nominees, etc., "extremists" or "outside the mainstream."

Can you get more extreme than calling Bush Hitler? Can you get more extreme than calling Bush the worst president ever? Can you get more extreme than calling Bush's policies the worst bills ever?

-PJ

[Petronski]

The Marxists at Moveon.org pull political discourse down into their gutter and then they complain when someone points out they stink.

[Petronski]

Little known fact: Schroedinger's Cat was a Viking Kitty!