Posted on 12/08/2009 1:40:19 PM PST by EricTheRed_VocalMinority
Look who’s Hitler-fixated …
As I posted yesterday, Frank Rich called the tea party movement “Hitler-fixated.” Rich was presumably referring to one tea party where one person was photographed holding one sign of a swastika with a slash through it. Based on this one instance, the New York Times’ resident ignorant of the fact that for eight stright years virtually no anti-Bush rally occurred that was not festooned with dozens of Bush-Hitler references. Nancy Pelosi, who imagined swastikaaaas at summertime town halls, was apparently ignorant of this too.
But if Rich was really looking for a group that is truly Hitler-fixated, he needn’t have stepped outside his own building. Today’s Times has—believe it or not—a review of Sarah Palin’s memoir. Except, while the review of the book’s contents is more or less ideologically neutral, here is how reviewer Stanley Fish decides to begin the column. Lachlan Markay at NewsBusters explains:
Fish introduces his review with a humorous anecdote poking fun at some of the more deranged Palin-haters: Upon asking a customer service representative in a Manhattan bookstore where he could find “Going Rogue,” the employee “looked at me as if I had requested a copy of ‘Mein Kampf’ signed in blood by the author, and directed me to the nearest Barnes and Noble, where, presumably, readers of dubious taste and sensibility could find what they wanted.”
Gee, you know, when a book reviewer compares—in a shrewdly indirect fashion—a publication to “Mein Kampf” and potential readers of this publication of having “dubious taste and sensibility,” I just wanna run right out and buy a truck load of ‘em, don’t you?
But it wasn’t only Fish who found the “Going Rogue”=”Mein Kampf” comparison accurate. Markay provides some online comments from those oh-so-tolerant readers of the oh-so-tolerant NY Times:
(Excerpt) Read more at vocalminority.typepad.com ...
wait, I thought that was racism? I am confused now... I thought you could not do that...CONFUSED!
The fools have never even tried to read Mein Kampf. Hitler’s book is virtually unreadable. I tried it twice but was defeated both times. The Last of the Mohicans is an easy read in comparison.
And we wonder why so many americans cannot recognize the real hitlers of the world.
Way off base. Fish’s piece was fair and balanced, particularly for the Times. He is obviously describing the reaction of the Strand Bookstore employee. Ever been to the Strand? Half of the female employees must belong to Code Pink.
This paper needs to go bankrupt.
WaPo and NY Slimes hear Sara's footsteps and the result is shear panic.
Barry Goldwater was compared to Hitler by his detractors, as was Ronald Reagan. If Hitler was like Goldwater, Reagan, and Palin, then maybe he wasn’t such a bad guy, after all.
Liberals are just pissed off because they thought they ruined Sarah Palin when she resigned from the Alaska Governorship. Only to find out she’s doing better than ever. Just like a bunch of kids who cry when they don’t get what they want.
didn’t Gibbs say “imagine if Bush was compared to Hitler”
Hitler was a Leftist and completely opposite, Goldwater, Palin, and Reagan.
Hitler killed every Downs child he could find (much as most Liberals do through abortion).
Okay, but then how do you explain the Times linking Sara with Hitler in Frank Rich's article yesterday? Fish's review acknowledged that Sara was a strong candidate but also sounded like warning that she is some kind of threat.
Liberals linking Sara with Hitler is a form of projection.
Simmer down. These things are getting silly. If you said that some people compare Palin to Hitler it wouldn’t mean that you were comparing Palin to Hitler. If that courtesy’s given to you, extend it to others.
Call me a cynic, but I think Fish was stealthily comparing Palin to Hitler by deflecting it onto the bookstore employee. Fish really wanted to say it; using the employee was just a tactic.
But that’s just me.
Liberals don’t deserve the time of day.
Don’t know how you come to that conclusion even if you are a cynic
This is idiotic.
The reviewer, Stanley Fish, was mocking the ridiculous horror of the book store girl.
His review of Palin's book was actually well-written and positive.
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