Posted on 08/18/2017 4:16:54 PM PDT by Kaslin
(For audio of the segment, go here.) Citing the love liberals have for FDR, the host wondered, “Where are the Franklin Roosevelt memorials? Why aren’t we ripping them down?... The only modern President to put American citizens in internment camps!”
Levin then read from this 2013 Daily Beast expose of the New York Times:
Between 1939 and 1945, The New York Times published more than 23,000 front-page stories. Of those, 11,500 were about World War II. Twenty-six were about the Holocaust.
So why did “the paper of record,” which President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is said to have combed through every morning, decide to bury the bulk of its Holocaust coverage deep inside the paper, nestled between advertisements?
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We now know that the U.S. government was aware of the genocide as early as 1942. The “fourth estate” was aware as well, yet still pussyfooted around it. As an example of the Times’s paltry coverage of the Holocaust, which claimed the lives of approximately 6 million Jews, the film points to a story published in the paper July 29, 1942, about the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto. The story bore the headline “Warsaw Fears Extermination,” was published on Page 7, and was not even a stand-alone story, instead consisting of a handful of paragraphs nestled next to an ad for Emerson spinet pianos.
“It was a bad judgment call,” former Times reporter Alex Jones (’83–’92) says in the film. “It was something that mattered as much as anything as far as news judgment, and The New York Times blew it.”
Levin seethed, “Oh, they blew it? Over and over and over again! For ten years, they blew it! The New York Times. And they dare to write an editorial trashing Donald Trump, whose responsible for none of this?”
A partial transcript is below:
This week, journalists are quite concerned about shameful moments in history. Yet, conservative radio host Mark Levin on Wednesday found OTHER moments they aren’t so fond of remembering. On his show, Levin excoriated the New York Times for lecturing Donald Trump and Republicans on Civil War statues. He mocked, “The New York Times is said to be the paper of record. The New York Times is the paper that all the left-wingers pick up when they are going on Amtrak.”
He derided the Times as:
The very newspaper that sought to conceal the Holocaust, something that Donald Trump has never done! Just as Franklin Roosevelt attempted to conceal the Holocaust! Something Donald Trump has never done!
The Mark Levin Show
8/16/17
MARK LEVIN: Did Donald Trump ever try to cover up the Holocaust? I would ask Jim Acosta, who is a complete clown? I would ask Don Lemon, who is a complete moron. But then again, they don’t want to be asked.
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LEVIN: The Media now have a base. MSNBC has the hard-left wing kooks. CNN is competing for the hard-left wing kooks by hiring a conga line of hard-left wing kooks, much like MSNBC’s hard-left wing kooks.
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LEVIN: But when are we going to hold people actually responsible for things that they’ve done? Things that they’ve done. And if the things that they’ve done are so unconscionable, why should we rely on them today? Why should we give them any credibility today? And yet, the New York Times is said to be the paper of record. The New York Times is the paper that all the left-wingers pick up when they are going on Amtrak.
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LEVIN: The very newspaper that sought to conceal the Holocaust, something that Donald Trump has never done! Just as Franklin Roosevelt attempted to conceal the Holocaust! Something Donald Trump has never done!
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LEVIN: Where are the Franklin Roosevelt memorials? Why aren’t we ripping them down? Why aren’t we ripping them down? The only modern President to put American citizens in internment camps!
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LEVIN: Liberal history professors time and again rate FDR the greatest president! He’s cited by the Democratic Party over and over again! “Well, he gave us Social Security.” He also gave us internment!
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LEVIN: Here’s a history lesson. I know it’s not a statue, but it’s a history lesson. Even the Daily Beast picked up on this back in 2013. Between 1939 and 1945, and I’ve talked about this many times, “the New York Times published more than 23,000 front-page stories. Of those, 11,500 were about World War II. Twenty-six were about the Holocaust. So why did “the paper of record,” which President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is said to have combed through every morning, decide to bury the bulk of its Holocaust coverage deep inside the paper, nestled between advertisements?
The documentary short Reporting on the Times, which will make its premiere at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival— ” remember this was written in 2013 — “tackles this frustrating question. Directed by Emily Harrold—who, at 22, is the youngest filmmaker at the festival—and inspired by Laurel Leff’s award-winning book Buried by the Times, the 18-minute film provides a fascinating mix of archival footage and talking heads, including a Warsaw Ghetto survivor, former Times reporters, and historians, to get to the bottom of The Times’s decisions.
“We had to wear armbands with the Star of David,” Warsaw Ghetto survivor Estelle Laughlin, who was 10 when the war broke out, says in the film. “I remember when my mother first put on the armband, she said, ‘Wait until the world will hear about this.’ My mother was an optimist.”
We now know that the U.S. government was aware of the genocide as early as 1942. The “fourth estate” was aware as well, yet still pussyfooted around it. As an example of the Times’s paltry coverage of the Holocaust, which claimed the lives of approximately six million Jews, the film points to a story published in the paper July 29, 1942, about the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto. The story bore the headline “Warsaw Fears Extermination,” was published on Page 7, and was not even a stand-alone story, instead consisting of a handful of paragraphs nestled next to an ad for Emerson spinet pianos.
“It was a bad judgment call,’ former Times reporter Alex Jones (’83–’92) says in the film. ‘It was something that mattered as much as anything as far as news judgment, and The New York Times blew it.”
Oh, they blew it? Over and over and over again! For ten years, they blew it! The New York Times. And they dare to write an editorial trashing Donald Trump, whose responsible for none of this?
NYT cover the Holocaust? The NYT literally covered Stalin (as in coverup), they knew what was going on in the USSR, they turned their backs on it, or reported it had to be done in a few cases.
Mark, Mark, they love internment camps and they hope to put you in one.
Since this is Mark Levin (and since his stated position is that if we supported Trump early we are all antisemites) it would perhaps be more appropriate if someone with at least a mustard seed of credibility on this issue confronted the New York Times. Mark Levin personally discredited themself on this issue.
No, he doesn’t get a do-over. And no, people who support Levin on this are not taking any sort of high road.
How about Walter Duranty-wasn’t he at times correspondent?
The American media was happy to bury the communist atrocities in Spain during the civil war there (’36-’39); many Europeans looked to fascism to save them from communism because they KNEW where communism would lead. To this day those atrocities are only mentioned if offset by a claim that the nationalists killed more (blatantly untrue - the number of Spaniards who returned to Spain after initially fleeing Franco’s forces, and the number who then lived out their days in Franco’s Spain when there were no barriers to prevent them from leaving, is an indication of the “brutality” of Franco).
I've listened to Mark Levin every evening for years. I'm surprised I missed that. What I haven't missed since January is his full-throated defense of the President against those trying to take him out.
He posted a long disgusting rant at The Conservative Treehouse.
I’m sorry to hear that. There’s nothing in the President’s background or his beliefs to justify such a rant. I’ll have to Google it and see if I can find it.
Here’s a story about Donald Trump’s father, who was adored by the working class Jews in NYC:
https://yated.com/trumps-shul/
...The laundry room, where all the tenants washed their clothes in coin-operated machines, was in the basement of the building. And do you know who collected the money from those machines in the mornings? Donald Trump and his brother!
“Donald was Fred Trump’s second son. I remember him from the age of about 14 or 15, with his wild shock of blond hair and his endless reserves of energy and drive. His father used to send him to collect the money from the laundry machines. Fred taught his children from a very early age to take responsibility; he gave them no breaks. Donald may have been wild as a youth, but his father raised him well.”...
Yep, the liberal leftist Democrats love concentration camps. That’s what they were when racist Franklin Roosevelt forced American citizens into those camps. Barbed wire, sentry guards with automatic weapons. Not just interment, but concentration of American citizens and their families. They only could take in a suitcase or two of personal items, all the rest was left behind. The ones who drove themselves there had their cars confiscated and sold off by the feds, with the proceeds going to the federal government. Stripped of possessions, stripped of dignity and freedom because of Franklin Roosevelt. I know that freepers will complain that this was war and you need to lock up the enemy, but many were American citizens born here, even white spouses of Japanese-American citizens were incarcerated, and their babies.
Now the democrats coddle and protect illegal enemy aliens from the Middle East who rape, murder and steal, scum that invade us and want to harm us. These same democrats attack our president and wish him harm, as well as other conservative Americans. Democrats need to be rounded up and shot, as long as they are fomenting this unrest we need to fight back and not be sheep awaiting our turn for incarceration.
Did you ever wonder why internment only applied to Japanese Americans living along the west coast?
And that British Columbia did the same?
Are you aware of the role that the MAGIC intercepts played?
Are you aware that only 1/16 Japanese blood in children and babies were enough to get them interred in concentration camps? As if they were going to do any harm. Babies and children who otherwise look white. What crime did the babies and children do? Go after aliens, but not American citizens unless there was reasonable suspicion of wrong-doing. It was a despicable act by Franklin Roosevelt, along with his refusal to help Jews trying to flee from the Nazis trying to exterminate them.
We recently visited the Heart Mountain camp about 30 miles from Cody WY. It is a stark reminder of what DIM fascists can do. Most were innocent Citizens . Pathetic . Heartbreaking .
I missed the part where you explained why internment only applied to Nisei living in the three west coast states.
Were the Japanese Americans living in the other 45 states not Japanese enough to get interned too?
How did FDR miss them?
Maybe if you bother to read up on MAGIC and how it led to internment you’ll lose the tedious Americans-were-just-racist posturing.
Of course the fact that no Nisei living outside the west coast were interned already does prove it, but apparently that doesn’t slow you down when you want to rant.
Maybe if you read the lack of evidence regarding MAGIC and the relation to the executive order 9066 you would wonder why they applied internment to innocent Americans of Japanese descent. It was a despicable racist act. Similar to the dems accusing Trump of colluding with Russia to throw the last election, no real substantive proof exists of the over hundred-thousand Americans of Japanese descent working for the Japanese government. A few MAGIC intercepts of embassy personnel in non-western states, etc., and that is your proof? It shows your racism.
“Maybe if you read the lack of evidence regarding MAGIC and the relation to the executive order 9066 you would wonder why they applied internment to innocent Americans of Japanese descent”
I’ve read that stuff. It’s just more of the Left’s favorite charge that everything that Americans ever do is based on racism. Congratulations for memorizing it.
The racism charge that is so popular with you and the Left is false because no Japanese Americans outside of the west coast were interned. And you have no explanation for how that could have happened. They were just as Japanese as those who were interned and your charge is that internment is all about American racism.
In contrast the evidence for MAGIC that you ignore is that the MAGIC intercepts exposed a large spy ring working the defense plants and west coast Navy yards.
Rounding up only the spies would have revealed that we could read Imperial Japan’s diplomatic and Navy cable traffic and they would have changed their codes.
Wholesale internment on the west coast masked the elimination of that spy ring without risking the loss of MAGIC.
” It shows your racism.”
It’s not like you’ll be the last nasty little Leftist to think that’s your winning argument. Don’t you have an Antifa meeting to attend?
You’re the one with the leftist Antifa thinking. Blame without proof. You would paint a hundred thousand American citizens with the same paintbrush and do them harm, not based on their actions but on spurious charges with no solid evidence. There is no MAGIC evidence to implicate them. There is evidence of spys active in Hawaii, so why weren’t the Japanese-Americans in Hawaii rounded up and interned? Your argument falls apart. Why don’t you put away your anti-asian feelings and take a rest.
” so why weren’t the Japanese-Americans in Hawaii rounded up and interned?”
For the same reason that they weren’t in the 45 states outside the west coast. You know, the ones that don’t fit your racism obsession.
“There is no MAGIC evidence to implicate them.”
Yeah, after all what would David Lowman know compared to you? He declassified MAGIC records while at the NSA and wrote a book about their connection with the internment order.
“Lowman, who died in 1999, was a former National Security Agency officer involved in declassifying intelligence records, including sources from MAGIC, the decrypted Japanese diplomatic traffic. That material, much of it from late 1941 and early 1942 and reproduced here, describes systematic recruitment of Japanese residents, citizens and noncitizens into networks designed to provide information to Japan both before and after the outbreak of war. Without ascribing Executive Order 9066 for Japanese-American internment entirely to this information, Lowman makes a solid case that the intelligence community’s faith in its credibility contributed significantly to the government’s decision”
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