Raw Journolist emails: Do Tea Party members ‘parallel’ Nazis?

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[Nachum]

Editor’s note: Bloomberg reporter Ryan Donmoyer wanted readers to know the context in which he wondered whether tea party members “parallel” Nazis. Below is the full thread in which the quote occurred.

Andrew Golis Aug 6, 2009, 8:16pm

Fistfights in Tampa at a townhall:

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/08/had_to_happen.php?ref=fpblg

——————————————————————– Ryan Donmoyer Aug 7, 2009, 8:08am

You know, at the risk of violating Godwin’s law, is anyone starting to see parallels here between the teabaggers and their tactics and the rise of the Brownshirts? Esp. Now that it’s getting violent? Reminds me of the Beer Hall fracases of the 1920s.

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Michael Kazin Aug 7, 2009, 10:16am

Calm down– as someone who shouted down pro-war Johnson administration officials in the 1960s, I see this as pretty routine stuff. Not so long ago, many college administrators didn’t even let “subversive” speakers on campus. Politics ain’t beanbag…

[Nachum]

More like Stalinists, IMHO.

[4rcane]

oh golly, remember the media were SOOO WORRIED about the level of discourse when we compared Obama to Hitler

[JimSEA]

These folks are woefully ignorant of history. What eventually became the Nazis began as competing “political” gangsters with Communists and Fascists fighting one another and within their own ranks. Kind of like the Bloods and Crips. Hitler came out on top. Virulent antisemitic hate fueled the mix. I don't see anything anywhere is the world that really compares with the toxic brew that was post WWI Germany.

[rawhide]

One thing about these democrats I’ve learned is they like to paint their opponents as they want the media to see them. It does not matter if it is true. When the democrats do this, it sorta takes away the argument that they can ever be labeled as such, even though in this case it is true. Democrats=Nazis!

[Texas Fossil]

Currently Democrats are Socialist at best, possibly Fascist. Certainly statist.

The Nazis were the National Socialist Party.

Dem Socialist & National Socialist

Is there a connection?

[Never on my watch]

Obama’s rise to power parallels Hitler’s, even to the point of introducing his own Voltsvagon.

[rawhide]

Hmmm, never thought about that, but you’re right!

[Pilsner]

Obama’s rise to power parallels Hitler’s, even to the point of introducing his own Voltsvagon.

I'd be surprised if the Voltswagon has 1% of the cumulative sales of these:

Anyway, don't equate BO to Hitler. BO is an International Socialist.

[Never on my watch]

Anyway, don't equate BO to Hitler. BO is an International Socialist.

Just sayin' their rise to power was eerily similar.

Oh, and they are both narcissistic maniacs.

[GregoTX]

The NAZIs wanted a nationalized central government with all power. They wanted re-distribution of wealth, control over private property, nationalize and regulate business, and tight economic control. They were big government socialists.

How this even close to the Tea Party movement? They promote small government, state rights, private property rights, smaller taxes, and more individual liberty. I do not see any connection.

[plenipotentiary]

“Anyway, don’t equate BO to Hitler. BO is an International Socialist.”

Hitler was A National Socialist, actually the first name of the Nazi Party was the German National Socialist Workers Party.

In the end Hitler was also an “International” Socialist courtesy of the Wehrmacht.

So Obama is in fact a Nazi, just like Hitler, and Obama is also a foreing agent and usurper. Oh what an upset when it all comes out.