Liberals are able to say anything no matter how off-the-way and get a pass from the MSM. Look at John Conyers and Cindy Sheehan, Michael Moore and Henry Belafonte, just to name a couple of quick examples.
Look at articles in the MSM before 1939 about Hitler-- he was a dapper sharp dresser, a cultured icon who loved classical music and an ardent non-smoker who promoted health issues ahead of his time. He cared about the poor and revitalized a country broken after World War I, according to the MSM. My guess is that they would still be trying to cover for him had he not attacked their buddy Josef Stalin and run such a horrific chain of death camps that it simply couldn't have been ignored or covered up.
So they did the next best thing and changed him from a left-wing extremist to a right-wing extremist.
He was also a teetotaler - he did not drink wine or other alcoholic beverages - he was a vegetarian, and an animal lover (he'd probably be a PETA member if he was alive today).