Posted on 06/19/2018 6:58:57 AM PDT by EdnaMode
The pundit class have officially snapped over the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance border enforcement policy. Since Friday, the collective breakdown has yielded a total of 22 instances in which cable news commentators compared the separation of parents and children illegally entering the country to World War II-era war crimes and human rights violations.
The Holocaust was invoked 12 times across CNN and MSNBC between June 15 and the 18th, generally in the form of comparisons between DHS detention centers and Nazi concentration camps. There were also six mentions of Japanese-American internment camps, as well as four comparisons to slavery.
On Friday, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough opened Morning Joe with a tasteless Holocaust reference. “Children are being marched away to showers,” he intoned, “just like the Nazis said they were taking people to the showers, and then they never came back. You’d think they would use another trick.”
Over the weekend, CNN political commentator Dave Jacobson threw a miniature tantrum over the policy. On Saturday’s CNN Newsroom during the 10 a.m. hour, he opined, “Donald Trump increasingly looks like Hitler in Nazi Germany.” The following day, he appeared again on Newsroom in the afternoon to embellish on his already hysterical take: “Increasingly, Donald Trump is turning this nation into Nazi Germany and turning these [detention centers] into concentration camps.”
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, evidently eager to join in the hyperventilating excitement, managed to last less than a minute before evoking concentration camps while hosting Hardball on Monday. Throughout the show, he repeatedly interrupted guests to draw their attention to images of crying children that flashed across the screen.
Media darling and former National Security Director General Michael Hayden poured gasoline on the fire with a June 16 tweet featuring an image of the Birkenau concentration camp along with the text, “Other governments have separated mothers and children,”:
While cooler heads in the media condemned this comparison, Hayden later defended those statements during two CNN appearances on Monday. “Now look, I know we’re not Nazi Germany,” he said on New Day, “but there is a commonality there.”
He repeated that point on The Situation Room that same day: “I knew it would be controversial, but I felt a warning flare was necessary.” Hayden’s tweet was also featured on five different MSNBC shows on Monday, with hosts such as Nicolle Wallace of Deadline: White House and Stephanie Ruhle of MSNBC Live appearing reluctant even to criticize the comparison. “We don’t want to go too far, but is this warning valid?” Ruhle pondered anxiously on her 9 a.m. show.
Some pundits too squeamish for Holocaust references instead made overtures to America’s Japanese internment camps from World War II. MSNBC contributor Jonathan Capehart mentioned both those camps and the Trail of Tears on AM Joy, adding that he felt the practice was “very American.” Leadership Development Strategist Kwame Jackson echoed Capehart’s point later that day on MSNBC Live with Yasmin Vossoughian:
We’re also talking about a legacy of this in the United States of America, whether it was Native American family separation, whether it was African slave separation, whether it was the Japanese internment camps. So this is a long line that we’re actually hearkening back to, that we really should be ashamed of and look at where we come from historically.
So absurd was the media's melodrama that even CNN’s Brian Stelter felt the need to step in and pump the proverbial brakes. On Sunday’s Reliable Sources, he posed a challenge to his guests: “Doesn’t the tone of this coverage offend a great deal of Americans who feel that the real scandal is that people are entering the country illegally in the first place?”
Mean while, in Philadelphis and New York City, Child services separate kids from parents every single day.
The left wing judges hand down the judgements against the kids for a living
IOW, partisan media shills regurgitate the latest DNC talking points.
Slavery is tax dollars forcibly taken from the proceeds of my labor, which is hours of my finite life that I had to trade for dollars, and then GIVING it away to foreign invaders.
Every dollar of taxes on labor income is a measurable period of a human being’s life that is stolen at the threat of a gun.
Pundits is a misnomer, these people are hate filled freaks spreading lies and misinformation to promote a Leftist Ideology.
The media corrupt to the core.
We can avoid detaining illegal aliens by using landmines and machine guns, just saying.......
I remember when comparing someone/something to Hitler/holocaust was extreme rhetoric and deemed an immediate losing argument by those in salon society.
When they make that argument, however, the narrative suddenly changes...
I think that as few as one hundred well placed kill shots that include at least five or six women will substantially reduce the illegal traffic
The Democrats, and their enablers in the media, resemble vicious pit bulls with the head of a border child in their jaws.....and they wont let go.
this is a new meme being created as well:
18 Jun: Sierra Club: Climate Deniers Are More Likely to Be Racist. Why?
A new study has a theory
By Heather Smith
People who don’t believe that climate change is real are more likely to be old, more likely to be Republican, and more likely to be white. They are also more likely to have racist beliefs, according to a recent study (LINK) published in the journal Environmental Politics. This correlation is a relatively recent phenomenon—one that occurred in the wake of Barack Obama’s election in 2008...
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/climate-deniers-are-more-likely-be-racist-obama-trump-climate-change
Equating the innocuous border crisis with Nazi Germany dilutes the historic impact of the heinous destruction and slaughter of a people on a mass scale.
They’re gonna run out of sharks to jump.
Probably not possible, but one solution would be to close the Southern border to all without legal authorization (visas, work permits) until a satisfactory immigration law is passed.
When the execrable Brian Stelter is the moderate, you know just how the fake news media lost it.
And that’s not a compliment.
WIKI---Buchenwald was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps on German soil, following Dachau's opening four years earlier. Prisoners from all over Europe and the Soviet Union—Jews, Poles and other Slavs, and other prisoners of war—worked primarily as forced labor in local armaments factories.
Today the remains of Buchenwald serve as a memorial and permanent exhibition and museum.
These alien “parents” illegally entered into the USA knowing that if caught, they could be separated from “their” children. And then, when given the choice to leave the USA with “their” children, or stay and risk separation, they choose to stay.
I don’t recall learning that Jews and Blacks volunteered for the concentration camps or slave ships and then had the choice to leave with their children. Then again, I am a victim of the government run school system.
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