If you're taking flak, you know you're over the target. Go Lt. Col. West!
Posted on 12/16/2011 9:58:09 AM PST by BradtotheBone
Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) landed in hot water on Friday for his remarks the previous day comparing the Democrats’ proficiency in getting out their message to the notorious head of the Nazi Party’s propaganda department under Hitler.
“If Joseph Goebbels was around, he’d be very proud of the Democrat Party, because they have an incredible propaganda machine,” West said Thursday.
Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) sent West a note expressing his disappointment in the remark. “I beg of you to help raise the level of congressional discourse in vigorous debate without resort to personal attacks,” Conyers wrote in a handwritten note first obtained by Politico.
West’s remarks came even as Democrats and Republicans scrambled to reach a bipartisan agreement on a spending bill necessary to continue funding the government into the new year.
Yep, Geobbel's would be proud of the modern day Democratic Spin Machine.
“If Joseph Goebbels was around, he’d be very proud of the Democrat Party, because they have an incredible propaganda machine,”
And the problem with that statement is....???
How convenient!!!
Dear Congressman West:
I beg of you to help raise the level of congressional discourse in vigorous debate without comparing us to Nazis, in particular Josef Goebbels.”
Sincerely,
Hermann Goering
The Democrats have been comparing our side to Nazis for years. I recall one incident in particualar in which a Democrat Congressman or Senator accused the Republicans of acting like Nazis during an open committee hearing.
I don’t remember a single call for an apology from anyone at the time, nor do I remember any apology being offered.
Why don't they "come out of the closet", like their constituency?
"I am sorry that Joseph Goebbels would be very proud of the Democrat Party, because they have an incredible propaganda machine."
Politico, Obama, Conyers, Wasserman, Reid, Pelosi, etc. would be in perfect company with Hitler’s mouthpiece, NAZI, Joseph Goebbels, etc. No apology needed or necessary. The truth hurts, but.....the truth is still the truth!!!
‘Proud’ was an unfortunate use of words. ‘Jealous’ would have been better.
Flashback:
“Rep. Steve Cohen stands by ‘Nazi’ comments”
“Tennessee Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen stood by comments he made on the House floor late Tuesday night in which he used a Nazi comparison to discuss Republicans who call the health care law a “government takeover,” but insisted he was making a point about lying, not trying to insinuate that Republicans were Nazis.
“It wasn’t about Nazis, it was about lies,” Cohen told The Daily Caller Wednesday. “The biggest liar, the biggest political liar was Goebbels. Politifact called this the biggest lie of the year. If you don’t stand up and say lies are lies, they stand for the truth. Somebody has to come out and say they’re lies. Politifact did and I cited Politifact. I have no problem with that.”
http://dailycaller.com/2011/01/19/rep-steve-cohen-stands-by-nazi-comments/
They live on lies.
Joseph Goebbels learned his methods from an American progressive Democrat named Edward Bernays. Bernays book, “Crystallizing Public Opinion” was a prized possession that Goebbels showed off to all when showing his library.
If you're taking flak, you know you're over the target. Go Lt. Col. West!
Great comparison.
In hot water with whom? About what? The truth?
The truth hurts.
He should tell Conyers to just shut up and get his shine box.
Mike
I see no reason for him to apologize. The liberal Democrats hate the truth. And they just hate.
“If Joseph Goebbels was around, he’d be very proud of the Democrat Party, because they have an incredible propaganda machine,” West said Thursday.
And where in that is a personal attack? No one singled out, just the party in general and their propaganda machine.
“I beg of you to help raise the level of congressional discourse in vigorous debate without resort to personal attacks.”
—Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.), to Rep. Allen West
“Furthermore I don’t want you to mention that my wife, Monica, has gone to prison for 37 months for corruption.” Goebbels and Goehring could have learned a bunch from this corrupt bastard!
“I beg of you to help raise the level of congressional discourse in vigorous debate without resort to personal attacks.”
—Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.), to Rep. Allen West
“Furthermore I don’t want you to mention that my wife, Monica, has gone to prison for 37 months for corruption.” Goebbels and Goehring could have learned a bunch from this corrupt bastard!
You know you’re scoring points when the Democrats start complaining that you’re being too harsh on them.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Vladimir Lenin
Russian Communist politician & revolutionary (1870 - 1924)
http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/838.html
I am sick and tired of all and sundry being compared to the Nazis - it serves to reduce the horror of that regime. I didn't like when Bush was called a Nazi and I don't think it helps the political discourse to raise such a comparison. The Dems are hypocritical, lying, deceiving, disingenuous, Machiavellian megalomaniacs - but they still don't reach the level of Goebbels. Not only was Goebbels the propaganda minister, he was one of the main overseers of the "Final Solution". The day after Hitler's suicide he and his wife killed their six children before themselves committing suicide.
I do agree, however, with the observation that there is a double-standard: Bush being called a Nazi was uncritically embraced by the MSM; West is publicly denounced.
But, as we are on the verge of losing the last living witnesses of the Holocaust, I am sick and tired of it being invoked for every political disagreement. The Dems are worms and behaving despicably, but even they have a long way to go the reach the depravity of the Third Reich.
West is right on!
After both parties collaborated on the passage of the NDAA, it would seem that they are all Sturmabteilung now.
Communists and Nazis only difference is in the uniforms they wear...trying to explain the difference between the two is like trying to explain the difference between the Bloods and the Crips.
Never apologize - it’s a sign of weakness.
Dear Congressman West:
I beg of you to help raise the level of congressional discourse in vigorous debate without comparing us to Nazis, in particular Josef Goebbels.”
Sincerely,
Hermann Goering
or...
Dear Congressman West:
I beg of you to help raise the level of congressional discourse in vigorous debate without comparing the Nazi Party to the Democrat Party. We reject that outright as slanderous... to Nazis.
Sincerely,
Hermann Goering
Hey Dems, if the shoe fits. Just saying.....
The Fascists and the Nazis were both left-wing, big-government, totalitarian ideologies.
Mussolini learned his politic methodology as a member of the Communist Party. And Hitler was a conservative? I think not. Hitler and Stalin shook hands and divided Poland between them, but then fell out because they were competing for the same job—ruler of the world.
I think we need to keep pressing that obvious point.
Just as we need to press the point that the Democrats were—and still are—the party of slavery and Jim Crow, while it was the Republicans who freed the slaves and led the civil rights movement, until the Dems moved in and subverted it.
We cannot afford to let Communist liars constantly re-write history.
Remember that one of the men that Joseph Goebbels most admired was Edward Bernays, who served as the head of the new propaganda department under Woodrow Wilson. The Nazis were amazed at how Bernays and Wilson were able to manipulate people in the United States. Despite what people have been taught by the Progressive educators (propaganda???), the United States was first and foremost in the propaganda arena and Goebbels and the Nazis were a distant second.
In a side note, Bernays was the father of the “modern” art of advertising which translates to “propaganda for money”..
I should also point out that when Goebbels office was searched, books written by Edward Bernays. It wasn’t that Goebbels would have approved, but more that Goebbels regarded Bernays as his hero.
But simply as a matter of historical perspective, conventional point-of-view, attributing the quote to Lenin makes Communists as progenitor for Democratic left wing ideology all the more metaphorically symmetrical.
Hopefully he refuses to engage in their silly games of semantics. Some of these hacks have a blood lust that would put Geobells to shame.
That it is true!
Dear Congressman Conyers:
Go to Hell!
Rep.West swats the demo-nats at will.All GOPers need to follow his lead.
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“Conyers wrote”
Conyers can actually write!!!!
Who knew?!?!
Personal attacks? Conyers and his party have never been one to raise the level of discourse or vigorous debate. Did he repudiate statements made by his fellow Democrat earlier this year that there are congress members who would like to see blacks lynched? Did Politico obtain a handwritten note to that effect? Sure! /s
Truth to Democrats is the equivalent of garlic to vampires.
Where was the personal attack in West’s comment? Just another example of a dishonest word/meaning twist by a democrat. It also makes me wonder why Repubs haven’t brought West onto the National scene. I know about his commitment to his voters but these voters should not hold back a man with West’s qualifications and demonstrated backbone from a lineup of POTUSA candidates. West certainly knows where military collusion with Obama has taken this Nation. West has shown he is rock solid for the Founders intention for this Nation.
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