AMERICAblog: ABC's Jake Tapper on Auschwitz and Buchenwald
Joshau Norton
· 1 year ago
On a daily basis, someone has to slam each and every wingnut head into a wall when they attempt to serve the party of the grandson of Adolf Hitler's money launderer and Hitler's greatest American ally, Prescott Bush and the Bush Family.
The Bush Family who, if they would have succeeded in 1934, would most assuredly have meant death to millions more.
Do they REALLY want to go down that road, when their very own John McSame thinks every middle easterner is in Al Queda?
Really. Do they?
SociologistTina
· 1 year ago
Yes, I strongly agree with Jake. Thanks for this post, John. This needed to be said.
zavlin
· 1 year ago
If camp-assassinations-are-context, says anyyyything about this, im going to have a really bad headache.
Coming Undone
· 1 year ago
Didn't Laura Bush call Katrina one of the worst disasters in American History Corinna( or something like that )?
Mrs. Peel
· 1 year ago
It is not about right and left anymore, it is about RIGHT and WRONG. And yes, I do long for the days when it goes back to being just about political positions and issues again, because that means our nation has stepped back from the precipice of totalitarian tyranny in it's newest, "most advanced" form.
To paraphrase a line from a Stephen King novel I read a while back, the right wing's desire to win at any costs does not justify their embrace of a monster.
Hangtown Danile
· 1 year ago
"The Stand" one of the best books ever written. Baby can you dig your man?
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
I know everyone is crying cynical about the McClellan bombshell book, but I believe there are going to be a lot of politicians and MSM press who will be spinning it to death to absolve their own role in the support of the Bush regime. McClellan may have had an epiphany of some sort after leaving the WH, and the book may be self-serving as a confessional, but what the hell, this is going to hit the right wing and those who gave Bush the benefit of the doubt very, very hard.
On the good side, though, my first thought when I heard about it just now (being awakened by my doggies) was, holy shit, McBush is going to be beaten in Nov. very, very badly.
Expect the real shitstorm to hit tomorrow. I just hope McClellan's life insurance is paid up.
Butch1
· 1 year ago
I actually had to turn the channel when Hillary Clinton was down in Puerto Rico hinting all over the place why they should vote for her. When they had their hurricane and a lot of damage, "She" says, it was Bill who personally sent her down to Puerto Rico to assess the damage and it was Bill who made sure they had all the help they needed. That's why you should vote for her!! Ha! I couldn't believe she had the cojones to use her husband's actions in why she should be the one. Unbelieveable . . . I used to like her and would have voted for her but now, she has shown she really doesn't have what it takes to be a president. Vetted? I think not.
RenoAnne
· 1 year ago
I suppose I can see why Republicans are upset. Their ideological predecessors put a lot of hard work into pulling off the holocaust and they'd like to see every detail remembered acurately.
jr
· 1 year ago
the right worships Vietnamphobes like William Kristol and trivializes the services of people like Obama's uncle. 4 years of college is "too generous" to McCain and "they volunteered" to Briam Kilmeade of Fox News
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
At least Obama doesn't make the same kind of mistakes McBush does...
Uncle Phil is still serving as a vice chairman over at UBS, doncha know.
johnt66
· 1 year ago
The shame of it all,I mean you have a sitting President who family made their fortune off the dead body of JEWISH slave laborers, and it mean nothing, but a misplaced name and all hell break lose, this is America, where politics trump lives.
ffbuzz
· 1 year ago
Who gives a shit about Obama's grandfather? I mean, that's great, but what does this have to do about Obama?
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
I have made this very same mistake myself. My uncle was the second or third GI to enter the gates of Auschwitz on the day it was liberated. For many years, we thought he had gone into Birkenbeltzen because my aunt had made the error. After they were gone, my cousins went through an old trunk of papers and found his diary. It turned out to be Auschwitz. Why they made the error no one will know. I do know that Obama's uncle, like mine, probably never talked much about it after the War because their disgust and revulsion were overwhelming. My own uncle became somewhat of a "righteous" Gentile...giving to Jewish charities and screaming at ANY anti semitic remark. I can see why Obama made such a mistake. My god this is not a big mistake.
Daniel73
· 1 year ago
Can you twist the truth of the statements any more than you have. You were not thinking of all those military people when you were going against Clinton with her story. Maybe the reason Obama had not mentioned his family history before is because he didn't know about it until some speech writer came up with it. To actually believe that Obama did not know what he was going to say until asked shows just how out of touch with reallity you really are. Even if you give Obama the benifit of the doubt maybe he just didn't know about his uncle because he comes from the white racist part of the family his is so ashamed of.
KansasModerate
· 1 year ago
It doesn't come as surprise that the adoring mainstream media and the doting leftist blogs are covering up for their candidate Obama by trying to convince the country that it was just a gaffe.
Look, it's one thing to make a mistake about whether it was Auschwitz or Buchenwald. But Obama clearly said it was his UNCLE. Now there's a big difference between an uncle and a great uncle.
If this was an isolated incident we might say, OK, we'll overlook it. But it fits a pattern of embellishments and little white lies.
He claimed his mother and father hooked up during the civil rights marches at Selma. But Obama was already five years old when Selma occurred. He claimed his father came to America as part of a Kennedy program. But his father was in America about a year before such a program was started. He claimed his thinking about race changed because of an article in Life magazine but there was no such article. He exaggerated his teaching role in constitutional law in Chicago.
What bothers me is how long the media let Obama get away with his story about a non-existent "uncle" helping to liberate a concentrtation camp in Poland that was liberated by the Soviet army. If the GOP hadn't picked up on the falsehoods in his story would the Obama campaign ever seen a need to put out the accurate story.
tofubo
· 1 year ago
there's a difference betwix obama and mccain misspeaking
messing up Auschwitz and Buchenwald is an example of a difference w/out distinction, both were camps the nazi's set up where people died 6 decades ago (this is not to minimize anything)
messing up Shia and Sunni is large, almost like getting the Protestants and Catholics messed up in Ireland, the Crips and Bloods in LA, but bigger, because they are an issue NOW, our troops are dying because of the internecine warfare between these two groups (and others) NOW, one group (the majority) is who we 'liberated' from saddam and is regligiously linked to iran, the other group (the minority) is the one's who were in power and now need protection from the tyranny of the majority (warrented or not in the tit-for-tat, we'll get you back for what you did to us for decades while saddam ruled)
so am i apologizing for obama, probably have i messed up the shia/sunni - <strike>muslim</strike>persian/arab contrast/comparison myself and am just as guilty as mccain for doing so, yes, but i've only done it <strike>once</strike>twice (i think), not the three or more times grampa simpson has, and i'm not running for president
mf_roe
· 1 year ago
Point of fact, Hitler is charged with 6 (SIX) million, Stalin gets credit for 20 million which included some Jews and various other enemies of the state. If you are going to get picky be accurate.
unrepentant_expat
· 1 year ago
In the interest of accuracy...Total Deaths from Nazi Genocidal Policies Group Deaths European Jews 5,600,000 to 6,250,000 Soviet prisoners of war 3,000,000 Polish Catholics 3,000,000 Serbians 700,000 (Croat Ustasa persecution) Roma, Sinti, and Lalleri 222,000 to 250,000 Germans (political, religious, and Resistance) 80,000 Germans (handicapped) 70,000 Homosexuals 12,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses 2500
Hangtown Danile
· 1 year ago
You are however forgetting the 17,000,000 Soviet deaths from starvation. But the other numbers are fairly close. I love it when people try to compare Bush to Hitler. Bush is a piker when he is put next to Hitler. (Hitler) That guy new how to kill! Bush is just a below par president, and the Bill Clinton of the Republican party. (He has taken the Republicans from a solid majority in the Congress and turned into a solid Demacrat majority (much the same way old Wild Bill did in the other direction in the 90's). For this you guys should be thanking him! (Bush) Hitler killed more people than any other European leader in the last 3 centuries. Not counting the deaths of fighting men. Hitler was elected as dictator for life. (Bush only gets 8 years) Hitler vs. Bush there is no way to say that they are in any way close. Hitler wins every time! By far Hitler was a better dictator! And then there is Stalin...
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The Bush Family who, if they would have succeeded in 1934, would most assuredly have meant death to millions more.
Do they REALLY want to go down that road, when their very own John McSame thinks every middle easterner is in Al Queda?
Really. Do they?
To paraphrase a line from a Stephen King novel I read a while back, the right wing's desire to win at any costs does not justify their embrace of a monster.
Baby can you dig your man?
On the good side, though, my first thought when I heard about it just now (being awakened by my doggies) was, holy shit, McBush is going to be beaten in Nov. very, very badly.
Expect the real shitstorm to hit tomorrow. I just hope McClellan's life insurance is paid up.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/
Uncle Phil is still serving as a vice chairman over at UBS, doncha know.
Look, it's one thing to make a mistake about whether it was Auschwitz or Buchenwald. But Obama clearly said it was his UNCLE. Now there's a big difference between an uncle and a great uncle.
If this was an isolated incident we might say, OK, we'll overlook it. But it fits a pattern of embellishments and little white lies.
He claimed his mother and father hooked up during the civil rights marches at Selma. But Obama was already five years old when Selma occurred. He claimed his father came to America as part of a Kennedy program. But his father was in America about a year before such a program was started. He claimed his thinking about race changed because of an article in Life magazine but there was no such article. He exaggerated his teaching role in constitutional law in Chicago.
What bothers me is how long the media let Obama get away with his story about a non-existent "uncle" helping to liberate a concentrtation camp in Poland that was liberated by the Soviet army. If the GOP hadn't picked up on the falsehoods in his story would the Obama campaign ever seen a need to put out the accurate story.
messing up Auschwitz and Buchenwald is an example of a difference w/out distinction, both were camps the nazi's set up where people died 6 decades ago (this is not to minimize anything)
messing up Shia and Sunni is large, almost like getting the Protestants and Catholics messed up in Ireland, the Crips and Bloods in LA, but bigger, because they are an issue NOW, our troops are dying because of the internecine warfare between these two groups (and others) NOW, one group (the majority) is who we 'liberated' from saddam and is regligiously linked to iran, the other group (the minority) is the one's who were in power and now need protection from the tyranny of the majority (warrented or not in the tit-for-tat, we'll get you back for what you did to us for decades while saddam ruled)
so am i apologizing for obama, probably
have i messed up the shia/sunni - <strike>muslim</strike>persian/arab contrast/comparison myself and am just as guilty as mccain for doing so, yes, but i've only done it <strike>once</strike>twice (i think), not the three or more times grampa simpson has, and i'm not running for president
Group Deaths
European Jews 5,600,000 to 6,250,000
Soviet prisoners of war 3,000,000
Polish Catholics 3,000,000
Serbians 700,000 (Croat Ustasa persecution)
Roma, Sinti, and Lalleri 222,000 to 250,000
Germans (political, religious, and Resistance) 80,000
Germans (handicapped) 70,000
Homosexuals 12,000
Jehovah’s Witnesses 2500
I love it when people try to compare Bush to Hitler.
Bush is a piker when he is put next to Hitler.
(Hitler) That guy new how to kill!
Bush is just a below par president, and the Bill Clinton of the Republican party. (He has taken the Republicans from a solid majority in the Congress and turned into a solid Demacrat majority (much the same way old Wild Bill did in the other direction in the 90's). For this you guys should be thanking him! (Bush)
Hitler killed more people than any other European leader in the last 3 centuries. Not counting the deaths of fighting men.
Hitler was elected as dictator for life. (Bush only gets 8 years)
Hitler vs. Bush there is no way to say that they are in any way close.
Hitler wins every time!
By far Hitler was a better dictator!
And then there is Stalin...