Amazing. Simply Amazing

Did Speaker Pelosi really call the protesters at Townhall meetings "Un-American"? I heard it on Joe Scarborough this morning so, you know, it has to be true.br /br /Except it's not.br /br /Then there's Richard Mellon Scaife's braintrust at the Tribune-Review. Unbelievable what they did today.br /br /But let's start with Pelosi. Here's exactly what she wrote at a href="http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/08/unamerican-attacks-cant-derail-health-care-debate-.html"USAToday/a:blockquotesubhed pstrongLet the facts be heard/strong /p/subhed pThese disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differing views — but of the facts themselves.span style="font-weight: bold;" Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American./span Drowning out the facts is how we failed at this task for decades. [emphasis added]br //p/blockquote You see that? span style="font-style: italic;"Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American./span Not span style="font-style: italic;"protesting the debate /spanbut span style="font-style: italic;"making sure the debate doesn't happen/span - that's the "un-American" part. Keep that in mind whenever you read or hear that she called span style="font-style: italic;"protesters/span un-American. She didn't.br /br /And yet a href="http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_637637.html"here's how it shows up/a on the editorial page of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:blockquoteAnd utterly despicable is that they characterize as "un-American" average citizens who are rising up in outrage to protest perhaps the greatest attempted shafting in America's history./blockquoteBut that's par-for-the-course for the Scaife braintrust. But the fun part starts with the next paragraph:blockquotePrior to Monday, Mrs. Pelosi had even intimated that those opposed to the government takeover are Nazis. So much for the "civility" for which she wails./blockquote Really? She called them Nazis?br /br /Of course not. a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaC-uMzvKKMamp;feature=player_embedded"Here's the clip/a. She was making the point that the protests are "astroturf" (ie "fake" grassroots) and then says that the protesters are bringing "swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on health care."br /br /Heck, even Rush Limbaugh found a photo of a swastika at a health care debate. Give a listen:br /br /centerobject width="320" height="260"param name="movie" value="http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/flash/mediaplayer316.swf"param name="flashvars" value="config=http://mediamatters.org/embed/cfg?flv=http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/video/2009/08/10/limbaugh-20090810-pelosi.flv"embed src="http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/flash/mediaplayer316.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="config=http://mediamatters.org/embed/cfg?flv=http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/video/2009/08/10/limbaugh-20090810-pelosi.flv" width="320" height="260"/embed/object/centerbr /Perhaps it was this photo:br /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Jc-fJMSkOtoPp_qUyGto1QUQUjirgg8gnb8t1hkBTrYMVC3xpkIzhCr1elsmbXv-IuR8kOXfGAOcG8uqLyg2b0711McL5zcEUWvB3j-8ZDH714Z3QuzR1VOHwr8Nnv0CHph5SPE89GI/s1600-h/s-FTCOLLINS-large.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 260px; height: 190px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Jc-fJMSkOtoPp_qUyGto1QUQUjirgg8gnb8t1hkBTrYMVC3xpkIzhCr1elsmbXv-IuR8kOXfGAOcG8uqLyg2b0711McL5zcEUWvB3j-8ZDH714Z3QuzR1VOHwr8Nnv0CHph5SPE89GI/s400/s-FTCOLLINS-large.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368666981963601986" border="0" //aBut obviously Rush doesn't get the symbolism. By crossing out the swastika, what do you think the protester was saying? She was protesting against what she saw as Nazism - in the health care plan. She was calling the plan Nazism.br /br /And yet it's charged that Pelosi is calling the protesters Nazis, when in fact (at least according to the photo Rush describes) it's the protesters who are calling the health care plan Nazism.br /br /But here's the kicker. What do you think Scaife's braintrust does after (incorrectly) ridiculing Pelosi for calling people Nazis? That's right, they call her and the Obama administration Nazis:blockquoteHere's a quotation for Pelosi and Mr. Hoyer to contemplate:br /br /"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."br /br /These are the words of Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. Sounds a lot like what Obama amp; Co. and all its thugs are engaged in, doesn't it? /blockquote Amazing. Simply amazing.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8213262-1156160108223643815?l=2politicaljunkies.blogspot.com'//div

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