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You mean I don't need to read

SleepinJeezus — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:09:11 +0000

In reply to Thanks, SJ. You've read it

You mean I don't need to read the book? Nuts! 'Cuz I just pre-ordered it from Amazon for my kindle. ;O)

I look forward to the reading of your book and will be encouraging others to buy it as well. Good luck with sales, and I hope it leads to successful follow-up assignments and contracts. Lots of work, but you're on your way. Congratulations!

Thanks, SJ. You've read it

Michael Wolraich — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 21:29:17 +0000

In reply to It's a fascinating video you

Thanks, SJ. You've read it perfectly. Indeed, you have precisely anticpated the central thesis of Blowing Smoke.

It's a fascinating video you

SleepinJeezus — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 09:38:16 +0000

In reply to Republican Candidate Dresses Up as Nazi

It's a fascinating video you have gathered here. If you listen to the first few comments - wherein the object of the talk is not identified - you could very easily assume the speaker was referencing the tea party Republican Conservatives. Indeed, any student of history could draw no other conclusion. Yet - in a move that Goebbels would find most encouraging - they somehow manage to turn these arguments against the very victims they would like to target with the abuse they claim is targeted at them. It's masterful propaganda.

Most chilling, perhaps, is Beck's little talk near the end about "a Reichstag moment." He expresses fear about "another 9/11" that would trigger a reaction resulting in a Nazi-like takeover. In this, Beck and I share the same fear, although mine is based upon an accurate reading of what happened in Weimar Germany, whereas his is based upon the same calculation made by those actually responsible for the Reichstag fire. A good Nazi would first warn about the "socialists" ( or the Jews, or any one of "the other") burning down the Reichstag, and would then follow it up with surreptitiously torching the building while screaming "See? I told you so!" The follow-up would of course involve a takeover of government to protect it from these "others."

Another interesting bit of rhetorical flourish is the repetition of the "National Socialist" part of the "National Socialist Peoples Party" It is simply impossible to believe that Limbaugh and Beck and these others are sufficiently ignorant to a degree that would cause them to conflate the Nazis with Socialists. Are they legitimately concerned about some important issue confronting the electorate? Or are they instead engaged in fear-mongering as a means of strengthening their own indefensible position? Again, Goebbels wrote the book on this and would be very proud of his acolytes.

Scary stuff, this. We've seen this show before...

Just don't call me late for

Richard Day — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 05:52:10 +0000

In reply to If you are a Dick, call

Just don't call me late for dinner or the apocalypse.

If you are a Dick, call

quinn esq — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 04:16:32 +0000

In reply to Like I noted in my Dana

If you are a Dick, call everybody else Richard?

Like I noted in my Dana

Richard Day — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 03:47:43 +0000

In reply to Republican Candidate Dresses Up as Nazi

Like I noted in my Dana Milbank blog, fascist and Hitler are referenced on beckerhead's show hundreds of times.

If you are a fascist call everybody else fascists.

If you are a racist, call everyone else racist.

If you are a hundred millionaire, call everybody else robber barons.

If you are a corporate shill, call everyojne else corporate shills.

If you are a closet homosexual, call everyone else gay.

If you get all your money and power from corporate interests, call everyone else corporate pigs.

It does not matter.

It is all advertising, all propaganda.

There is no truth anymore.

I had to stop at Anne

CVille Dem — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 01:09:08 +0000

In reply to Republican Candidate Dresses Up as Nazi

I had to stop at Anne Coulter. I just couldn't take it.