On Maher, Rob Reiner Equates Tea Party to Hitler: ‘All They're Selling is Fear and Anger and That's All Hitler Sold’
Prefacing his remarks by proposing “you never get into a political discussion unless you bring the word Hitler in. You have to have Hitler, so let's put Hitler out there,” as if that caveat lessened the vulgarity of his impending comparison, on Friday night’s Real Time actor/director/writer Rob Reiner (IMDb page) contended all the Tea Party needs to match Adolph Hitler is a charismatic leader:
He wasn’t a majority guy, but he was charismatic and they were having bad economic times – just like we are now – people were out of work, they needed jobs and a guy came along and rallied the troops. My fear is that the Tea Party gets a charismatic leader, because all they're selling is fear and anger and that's all Hitler sold. “I’m angry and I’m frightened and you should hate that guy over there.”
“Right,” Bill Maher chirped in as Reiner, to applause from HBO's Los Angeles audience, declared: “And that’s what they’re doing.”
(Apparently, that means he at least doesn’t consider Sarah Palin to be a Hitler-like charismatic leader.) Audio: MP3 clip.
Shortly before, as he sat between Nicole Wallace and ABC News White House reporter Jake Tapper as the panel discussed Christine O’Donnell’s supposed ignorance about how “separation of church and state” is in the First Amendment, Reiner denigrated Tea Party candidates: “They're selling stupidity, they’re selling stupidity and ignorance and I've never seen a group of people, I’ve never seen an election cycle with more ignorance than this one.”
Maher agreed: “You’re right. I have not either – much to my delight.”
From the Friday, October 22 Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO:
ROB REINER: You never get into a political discussion unless you bring the word Hitler in. You have to have Hitler, so let’s put Hitler out there. Here’s Hitler, okay? You have bad economic times, right? Hitler, by the way, never got more than 33 percent of the vote ever in Germany. You have bad economic times-
BILL MAHER: Well, he only had that one election, let’s be honest.
REINER: Yeah, right.
MAHER: Hitler never ran for re-election.
REINER: No, that’s true, that’s true.
MAHER: There was no 1937 election.
REINER: He wasn’t a majority guy, but he was charismatic and they were having bad economic times -- just like we are now – people were out of work, they needed jobs and a guy came along and rallied the troops. My fear is that the Tea Party gets a charismatic leader, because all they're selling is fear and anger and that's all Hitler sold. “I’m angry and I’m frightened and you should hate that guy over there.”
MAHER: Right.
REINER: And that’s what they’re doing.
(Audience applause)
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Are things THAT bad for the
Submitted by Van Halen on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 8:16am.
Are things THAT bad for the Progressive Liberals that they drag out this dusty old Lefty tool?
Blah blah Hitler
Blah blah Nazi
Blah blah dictatorship
Blah blah BushPalinCheneyBeckLimbaugh
Here's an idea: Whey doesn't someone hammer every single Lib talking head on Obama's record deficits, record unemployment, record bank failures, record foreclosures, record spending, record number of people on food stamps, record death toll in Afghanistan, record poverty rate, consumer confidence at record lows, longest jobless stretch since the 1930's, failing dollar, disastrous foreign policy...
Meathead.
LOL...
Submitted by StarAZ on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 12:58pm.
Yeah, this stuff is so tired it can hardly raise its head.
And blah, blah, blah, racist.
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 1:44pm.
Why bother to think when the sound bites have been written for you?
I was just reading an article about Sarah Palin appearing at a Tea Party event in Arizona.
Under the article was a comments section, and this was the very first comment:
posted by TheyHatePEACE on Oct 22, 2010 at 04:16 PMThe Tea KKK Party is made up of people who dress up their racism and anti-semitic beliefs as anger against the government. Their heritage thinks blacks are not human, hispanics are full of deseases and native american kids are monsters. They're plain racist disguised as anti-goverment radicals. They are mad because hispanics can vote, blacks in professionals settings and native american get rich off white man's crack (Casinos). They still believe they should never get layed off, they should have preference regardless of qualification over non-whites and they think somewhere down the line JESUS named them the SELECT human race. They claim the 14th amendment, does not apply anymore. Under that mentality, nor does the 2nd amendment. Under that same mentality, taxation without representation also needs to be amended. Some people who pay taxes can't vote right now. Bottom line, these people HATE America for electing a non-white President and seek revenge against America for electing a non-white man as President
Talk about a one-note samba.....
i'll never forget how all the
Submitted by sometimesright on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 5:24pm.
i'll never forget how all the major networks had a daily body count for the war in Iraq(tragic any way you look at it) and Bush's poll numbers. and i do mean DAILY. damn, wolf blizter made a career out of hourly updates on the two when it suited cnn. the networks are strangely quiet now. but you're right, this lib sounds like every other hollywood elite.
Well Said!
Submitted by packman on Sun, 10/24/2010 - 9:18am.
...and that very well I might add...
"...Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread..." ~Thomas Jefferson
Hope and Change
Submitted by Skragnon on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 8:20am.
Hitler didn't start out with fear and hate, he started out with hope and change.
"Follow me, I can fix our economy."
"Follow me, I can feed our people."
How's that hope and change working out for us?
Don't forget
Submitted by StarAZ on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 1:02pm.
...lower the tides
...unemployment will be 8%
...doctors amputate whenever they can because they make more money doing that
..and just today...
The Repubilcans planned all this--they said, wow, we left a mess so let's just lay low and drink Slurpees and make him fail to clean it up.
So what if we become a third-world country in one term of his, we don't live here.... Ooops, we do live here...well, bad idea then.
Hmmm, is the Straw Man store still open...
And Of Course
Submitted by JustAl on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 3:31pm.
There is the always popular need for, "a civilian security force as large and well funded as the military."
Spoken by a candidate for the US presidency who also held a huge rally complete with Greco-Roman columns in the Fatherland. How many other candidates for the US presidency chose to campaign in the birthplace of Nazism?
Just like the Nazis, everything, everything is about race.
It doesn't get any more fascist than Obama Care
Submitted by Crash on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 8:27am.
I can't wait to see what the guys on South Park do with this sound bite.
Meathead
Submitted by spepper on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 8:32am.
um Mr. Meathead, aren't you yourself "selling fear and anger" on the world headquarters for "fear and anger sales": The Bill Maher show?
Hitler would be so proud.....
(I had to work the name Hitler in here somehow)
He really is a Meathead.
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 9:30am.
He really is a Meathead. Wonder what rock he crawled out from under?
I guess it is a good thing
Submitted by buddyc on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 8:42am.
I guess it is a good thing that talent and intelligence are rarely found in the same person.
Reiner is very talented in his field. He is not very smart.
To criticize someone you disagree with by calling them nazi's because you claim they appeal to people's fear is doing the exact same thing he is criticizing.
They say whatever they want
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 8:42am.
and their liberal interviewers don't even question them or ask for proof.
In a Bloomberg interview, Joe Biden says Republicans are spending $200 billion on ads, and Al Hunt just lets it slide.
Truth, schmooth. Whatever smears the Republicans.
Yep
Submitted by Galvanic on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 12:36pm.
During the Bush years, didn't Pelosi state that there were something like 200 million unemployed twice in the same speech?
Reiner's fear-mongering says less about Tea Parties and more about the weaknesses of the parliamentary system of government so admired by the Left.
Our republic with its three separate branches doesn't facilitate a Nazi-like coup so easily, and an armed populace is the ultimate guarantor of the Constitution.
If Reiner and Maher had ever studied the Constitution, they might appreciate the distinction.
But when one resorts to fear-mongering in order to define an opponent as fear-mongers, Constitutional issues go out the window.
Exploiting peoples fears and
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 8:52am.
Exploiting peoples fears and rallying them behind a charismatic leader..... isn't that the democrats formula for success in 2008?
Too bad that a charismatic leader has to complete an authortarian takeover of the government before the people realize their charismatic leader is no miricle worker.
Dang those framers of the Constitution who only gave the federal government two years before it faces the voters again!
After 40 years
Submitted by PokerAndCigars on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 8:55am.
the guy STILL is a meathead- he's absolutely dead from the neck up. What a perfect clown to "play" the part of Michael Stivic all those years ago.
These idiots will never learn.
After 40 years
Submitted by PokerAndCigars on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 8:55am.
the guy STILL is a meathead- he's absolutely dead from the neck up. What a perfect clown to "play" the part of Michael Stivic all those years ago.
These idiots will never learn.
What ever happened to
Submitted by Francisco on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 9:00am.
What ever happened to Godwin's Law and reductio ad Hitlerum? It is really disheartning to watch this insane cheapening of the political discourse oing mainstream. The left-wing complains all the time about the extremism of the right-wing with all their Hitler references and because of that... they compare them to Hitler. The right-wing, on the other hand, replies "how dare you compare us to Hitler!" and then in the next breath "Because YOU are Hitler!"... Its like a Hitler-references "arms race"... The left-wing probably started it in recent times with all that "Bushitler" crap, but now it is really getting out of hand on both sides.. I honestly, really, truly doubt any reasonable person can find any relevant link between any entity in the current political process and Hitler so it would be really great to see it banished once and for all from modern political discourse. And if you disagree you're just a Nazi yourself..Godwin"s Law
Submitted by NevadanConservative on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 10:20am.
Herewith the wikipedia citation for Godwin's Law.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_Law
The left will probably want a parallel 'law' calling anything/anyone that cites socialism/marxism/communism as no longer 'debate-worthy', as the left doesn't want to draw attention to the things one of their more 'successful' demigods did. Call it Pobedabog's Law.(Godwin in Russian)
Already been done, by the way, in 1984, as both doublethink and crimestop.
As to Francisco's desire to 'see it banished once and for all from modern political discourse'... Um, bub, that set of ripples in your frufru white tea next to your Belgian endive salad there? Them's the vibrations from the bone saws we are about to apply to your ivory tower.
Come on down from those rarefied heights and get more oxygen... besides, you'll be liable to be more intact when we finish with that tower.
I mean, be real. The fight for one side to impose its dictatorial will on us and the other side to resist it is dirty, sweaty, nasty, and mean. To quote..."The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done! Now if you know what you're worth then go out and get what you're worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits..."
Most of the folk in here are willing to take the hits and get down and wallow if that is what it takes. We want to keep the authoritarians off of our necks, out of our wallets, away from our children and (might as well say it) back in their cages. If that offends your tender sensibilities, then clearly you are in the wrong website.
Went a little long here...
NVCon
On the contrary, a web site
Submitted by Francisco on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 3:27pm.
On the contrary, a web site where replies come in the form of Rocky quotes is exactly the right web site for me... As for the rest, I see your point, I just think a-) it's completely unnecessary, both from a political and intelectual point of view. The libertarian viewpoint will win in the end, by force of argument, not of demagogic fear and b-) it's very distracting from the real issues at stake ,deficit, the economy,personal freedom and responsabilty, role of the state,etc. But hey, whatever works... The commie references are highly hyperbolic, but at least they have some logic (however overstreched) behind them.. Nazi references are simply blood libel.. And I have to say, you know your salads,Mr.Francisco
Submitted by JustAl on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 3:42pm.
How can you say it is unnecssary to point out the parallels? Do you not realize how easily history can be re-writen by the ones who write the text books?
The Libertarian view will not just "win", if that was true it would have already just "won," in case you haven't noticed approximately half of the voters in the US (granted, many of them are dead, but still) are not interested in logic or the force of argument.
The only difference between the communists and the nazis was that one used 7.62mm ammo while the other used 7.92mm ammo to kill those who disagreed. They are not opposites as the people I mentioned in the first paragraph have falsely taught for years, they are competitive siblings. And the current regime bears striking similarities to both.
NVCon
Submitted by MrShy on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 3:48pm.
I've seen my share of smack-downs of hollow-talking, "Libertarian", "I am above the fray / we must not fight like this", righteous yappers like this one. Let me say, yours is the best smack-down I've ever read. :)
It's also rich with a lot of humbling words of true wisdom.
- Shy Grooves
Join Mr. Shy and The 1* Percent
Hitler?
Submitted by merly1 on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 9:01am.
How desperate are they? I do agree with the ignorance thing, though, as Obama and Biden are as clueless as leaders come.......Obama of the record deficits and an Afghan war, and the daily Biden gaffe show--his latest was the 200 billion campaing spending one now on Drudge........they really are "dumb and dumber"
No, they're actually right.
Submitted by HockeyKid on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 9:08am.
No, they're actually right. When the uneducated in the electorate get whipped into a frenzy by a fear-mongering charismatic individual, bad things tend to happen. People will vote for someone they know nothing about, who then turns out to be very, very bad for the country, and sometimes the world.
See "Obama, 2008".
As for the Tea Party, several surveys have now shown that their members are, on average, better educated than liberals. Where does that leave Mahervis and Meathead?
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Next they will tell us
Submitted by 10ksnooker on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 9:11am.
Abe Linclon founded the KKK to keep the slaves in slavery ... hmmm, that doesn't work, now does it.
Abe Lincoln founded the Republican party so that must mean ???? Why yes that is just what it means, as funny as that is.
Two more cuckoos singing in the cuckooberry tree!
Submitted by Mary Louise Turner on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 9:19am.
Oh, man! Between Fat Eddie's idiotic "down the middle" defense of NPR and these two bozos spewing garbage out of their traps, the cuckooberry tree is crowded! Rob Reiner's been washed-up for a long time and Bill Maher's an unfunny alleged "comic".
Earth to Reiner and Maher: Just go away - please! Spare our ears!
Doesn't Reiner Know?
Submitted by stormy67 on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 9:34am.
Doesn't Reiner know Archie Bunker was cancelled years ago, and that Meathead was just a character?
Once a Meathead
Submitted by Big Wally on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 10:27am.
Once a Meathead always a Meathead.
Selling fear and anger?
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 9:38am.
Isn't that a description of the Obama technique for campaigning? Fear the ideas of the Republicans and get angry at businesses. Fear and anger have replaced hope and change for the Democrats this year.
Fear and Anger
Submitted by libBuster on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 10:06am.
Actually it is what Reiner is doing with his Hitler analogy. It is also what Pelosi, Reid and the NAACP have done with the overblown racism charges.
Spot on, you beat me too
Submitted by Tomorama on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 12:31pm.
Spot on, you beat me too it.
I love how the college aged dolts in the audience clap with this bullshit, brainwashing 101.
Then they get out in the real world off mommy and daddies teet, and damn, my "perfesser" lied..........
The Churchill thing about still being a libtard at 40 applies still today.
You could replace Mahers...........
Submitted by BEGRUNT on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 1:05pm.
audience with a barge of barking seals.....same effect.
"A nation can suffer it's fool's, but cannot survive the traitor"
Cicero
So...
Submitted by johnsonl on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 10:05am.
was anybody watching these idiots? Seriously? I would hope that most folks, even left leaners, would look at this trash and pronounce it as such.
Isn't this the show where the host said "f--k you"
Submitted by TheHistorian on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 10:16am.
to his panel who disagreed with him?
Isn't this the President that said something like they cling to their guns and bibles"?
Isn't this the administration that dismissed charges for voter intimidation against the New Black Panther Party?
There is a lot of fear out there. Actually, Rob, the fascist is YOUR guy in the White House; he is the one who decided "too big to fail" for one company and let another (Bear Stearns) fail, whose buddies in Congress (and he also) ignore the opposition party, etc. Hitler is alive and well in the White House, not in the tea party. There is a lot of justifiable fear out there; this President and his lap-dog Congress continue to tank the economy in the name of lieberalism.
So get your lieberal buttocks out of the chair and find out the truth. YOU are the haters, not us. You guys are the ones who cannot tolerate different viewpoints (al a Juan Williams) not us. So stick your head back where it was. You know nothing.
Dennis Prager
Let's see. Racists,
Submitted by Thoreau on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 10:27am.
Let's see. Racists, NAZI's, and Homophobe's. Let's see which party that applies to right now.
Communists at the DOJ selectively enforce the law based on Race. Black Panthers and Black SEIU thugs at voting booths? No problem.
Their Fuhrer calls white cops stupid because they were doing their job. DHS head butch commi Napolitano is sueing our Sheriff's for enforcing immigration law(which mirrors Federal Law), citing racism.
They are literally the National Socialist Worker's Party aka the NAZI's(Somebody buy them a German->English dictionary).
Obama interceded and halted the end of the discriminatory practice of Don't Ask Don't Tell as a military conduct requirement. Leaving gay's tossed out on their ass when somebody finds out they don't like girls.
And we haven't even gotten to the part where they're in two wars, working on three. Had the largest classified document leak in American History. Tripled the National Deficit. Ohh... the hits just keep on comin.
And yea, liberal bitches, I can see November from my house too.
PS- Sarah Palin never ever EVER said "I can see Russia from my house". That was SNL's Tina Fay. Another delusion made reality by your warped ass minds.
So, what is Reiner selling?
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 10:49am.
So, what is Reiner selling? Why, Fear of the Tea Party movement of course.
And Hitler was a charismatic
Submitted by eaglewingz08 on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 10:47am.
And Hitler was a charismatic socialist and Obama is a charismatic socialist. Oh, sorry, wrong script. The tea partiers are socialist like Hitler. Sorry, my bad again. How come Hitler analogies never go against lefties, even though he was a lefty? Even though the lefties in the last century murdered hundreds of millions of people? Seems like lefties have one hell of a log in their eyes while they complain of the speck in the eyes of tea partiers/conservatives.
Predictable....
Submitted by tampamom25 on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 10:49am.
As usual, it's the liberals out there calling names and pointing fingers. In the absence of coherent argument (which they do not have) or reasonable speech (which they are not capable of making), they pull out the Hitler gun, or the race card, or the fear mongering and go to town with it. All they ever have to offer are sound bites that they hope someone will pick up and repeat, and with the repetition people will believe it to be the truth. They are who they accuse the conservatives of being.....
I hate to use this old clique but......
Submitted by richard on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 10:59am.
.....The best part of Rob Reiner ran down his daddy's.... oh well, you all know the rest of it. But for his lineage, he'd probably be making waffles at the local IHop. He looks like a "white" chef from South Park.
So, because he makes movies,
Submitted by notinstl on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 10:58am.
..this meat helmet is an expert on what?....BO is out there trying to scare out his base....isn't that playing the "fear" card....liberals are so smart they don't realize how stupid they sound.
Meat Head
Submitted by PrimalElements on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 11:06am.
These guys are amazing. They should be called
The PROJECTION Party.
'I've never seen an election
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 11:07am.
'I've never seen an election cycle with more ignorance than this'..........just about sums it up. And you can include the 2008 election cycle with it. And you can include the vast majority of idiotic MSM talking heads like these two morons in the mix while you're at it.........
I defy anyone to watch any history of Hitler and not be struck by the similiarities to his rise to power with that of Boy Blunder. The main difference is that Hitler WAS proud of his country and wanted to return it to it's place as a major power in the world, and he had credentials as to his experience and involvment in getting to where he got.........
Boy Barry, on the other hand, wants to weaken our country and 'cut it down to size', and he basically hasn't done a damn thing in real life that could qualify him to do anything......
Boy Barry Soetoro Barack Hussein Obama is the biggest scam ever perpetrated on the American public in the history of this country............
One Major Difference
Submitted by JustAl on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 11:07am.
Between the Nazis and this regime. . . the Nazis dressed well.
Wow! Must have been a good show!
Submitted by Patriot II on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 11:16am.
"Bozo" and "Bobo" all on the same show......crap....I don't understand how anyone would watch the two idiots more than about 15 seconds!!!
Hmmmm. Why does the left like actors so much...
Submitted by c5then on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 11:27am.
Well, it's simple realy. Actors have a talent for taking other people's fiction (script lines) and making it believable. Over the years they tend to get confused as to what they believe and who they are with the roles that they've played and the lines that they have acted.
Think about this...LA and the surrounding area are so think with these multi-millionairs that it ought to have the lowest rate of homlessness and have the highest concentration of charities in the WORLD! It doesn't. Hollywood itself has one of the highest homeless populations per capita in the country. Why are these multi-millionaires not donating some of their HUGE wealth to provide for the needs in their own community where most of them work? Where is their personal responsibility? NYC has a similar concentration of "stars". Why does NYC have similar problems?
Where is the Rob Reiner homeless center? Where is the Angelina Jolie Free Community health center? Where is the Tom Cruise Children's hospital? Where is the Barbara Streisand school for the Performing Arts? etc. etc....
Why are they scared that the country will turn back toward a Constitutional Republic like our founders gave us, instead of this Socialist Democracy that we have started to turn into?
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
WHY
Submitted by paulnashtn on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 11:52am.
Why does/would/should anyone care what these mental midgets from Hollywood think or say???????
I love Spinal Tap...
Submitted by AgentAmerican on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 11:52am.
...a very funny film...unfortunately Meathead has become disoriented and dellusional.
Erie or what?
Submitted by sam12663 on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 11:53am.
He wasn’t a majority guy, but he was charismatic and they were having bad economic times...... Sound familiar? Anyone who takes anything said by any celebrity and uses it to form an opinion is just as clueless as the celebrity. If not for America's fascination with celebrity, we would not be burdened with the Obama administration.Rob Reiner - blazing idiot
Submitted by Free Stinker on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 11:55am.
If a Rob Reiner speaks in the forest is he still a blazing idiot?
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
I'm so sad. No really.
Submitted by lifelibertyhappiness on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 12:01pm.
I'm so sad that a tweedledee and tweedledum think we are Nazis. I've never ever heard that before. I must go out and reevaluate my entire outlook on life. Actually I just think Meathead and Toadface should stick their heads down the garbage disposal. Together.hope and change
Submitted by Darune Albane on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 12:11pm.
if i remember right hitler sold HOPE AND CHANGE
Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Chavez, etc
Submitted by okiehawk44 on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 12:14pm.
Rob, Obama admires these killers. Do you not have the ability to understand this? Or do you just choose to ignore it because like many in Germany who liked the messenger you just can't bear to admit he is wrong on so many levels.
The idiot sitting to his left.
Submitted by Texndoc on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 12:15pm.
She's the former "McCain senior strategist" Nicole Wallace. I saw another clip from this show where Maher says "this election has the biggest collection of morons we've ever seen" and she sits there nodding in agreement. We know who Maher means. And Nicole Wallace is the "insider" who post election was thought to have leaked that Sarah Palin "thought Africa was a country" and answered her hotel room guests wearing only a towel.
I couldn't sit through that show with a gun to my head.
One more reason why I
Submitted by Gat New York on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 12:25pm.
One more reason why I cancelled HBO years ago. I will not be part of any financial support for Bill Maher.
It is ironic that he struts out ole Meathead as some sort of political expert.
Let's replay 2006-2007
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 12:33pm.
"My fear is that the Tea Party gets a charismatic leader, because all they're selling is fear and anger and that's all Hitler sold. “I’m angry and I’m frightened and you should hate that guy over there.”
Read that with "Democrat" replacing "Tea" and you have the last election cycle! The dumbocraps couldn't have picked a bigger numbnut than Barack Hussein Obama, and that's saying something in that party, and the bastard wins because of "Hope and Change?"
... and Meathead's next brilliant statement:
"I’ve never seen an election cycle with more ignorance than this one.”
Ahhhhh, was he struck blind the last cycle?
Face it folks. Barack Hussein Obama is a rat bastard Fascist son of a bitch, and we're stuck with him for two more long years. I just hope the hell we can survive it. Our best hope is that, unlike Hitler, The One hasn't figured out how to disarm us yet. Obviously he ain't as brilliant as they think he is, or he wouldn't have overlooked that little detail that every good dictator knows.
when you refer to TEA party ,
Submitted by jkwtrading on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 12:33pm.
when you refer to TEA party , you always say THEY.. They can be millions of people and they can be people of all walks of life, they can be anyone, so a word of advice is watch whom you blanket a negative THEY onto.
They also keep growing and getitng bigger so they can someday overwhelm you.
distasteful
Submitted by dmaley1714 on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 12:36pm.
Does anybody else find it distasteful that less then 70 years after Hitler killed close to 10million people these 2 idiots are yucking it up about him like Hitler was some big joke.
Just to correct a few stats
Submitted by Galvanic on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 12:55pm.
ROB REINER: Hitler, by the way, never got more than 33 percent of the vote ever in Germany. You have bad economic times-
Actually, the Nazis won 37% of the vote in July 1932, and 33% in November 1932. After Hitler became Chancellor, another election was held in March 1933 in which the Nazis garnered 43% of the vote.BILL MAHER: Well, he only had that one election, let’s be honest.
REINER: Yeah, right.
MAHER: Hitler never ran for re-election.
REINER: No, that’s true, that’s true.
Technically, the Nazis ran in about a half dozen elections. There was even an election after Hitler came to power as Chancellor, though there is little doubt that had the results been unfavorable to the Nazis, they would have completed the dissolution of the last vestiges of Weimar.Now there's a couple of real
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 12:53pm.
Now there's a couple of real geniuses....
No, Obama sold the fear and
Submitted by rbosque on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 1:03pm.
No, Obama sold the fear and anger, we're just reacting to it.
BILLY MAYS HERE!!!!!!!!
Submitted by GregE on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 1:36pm.
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Very funny Greg
Submitted by Boudin on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 3:47pm.
They sure have sold a bunch of em
Two Senile Old Men
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 2:07pm.
missing Hitler, try to find a new one. How freakin' pathetic.
So....
Submitted by saintknowitall on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 2:40pm.
.....let me get this straight, Reiner is comparing Tea Partiers to Hitler using fear and hatred. Hmmmm. So that means Reiner is Hitler. So HItler is calling Hitler, Hitler. All seems a bit circular to me. Guess this is the definition of irony.
Rob, the name meathead keeps coming to mind.
Meathead redux
Submitted by rammingspeed on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 4:01pm.
Hollwood sh*tipes are getting boring. Hitler was (of course) an insane tyrant whose followers did his murderous bidding (in public, with photos of hanging bodies published in Der Steurmer). He was kinda like a big government guy - with a kick. Tea Partiers are anti-big government and I believe it's no coincidence that there is no "leader." Hitler, and his crew, and the Tea Party couldn't be more ideologically different. Now, we all know that, but Hollywood sh*tpies don't. How come? What makes them so otherwise high level with brainpower, but so off the wall with reality? Meathead just kicked his own teeeth down his throat.
The American Thinker has an excellent article...
Submitted by stage9 on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 4:23pm.
on this very subject.
Kyle-Anne Shiver outlines the tactics used by liberals to silence their opposition in his article "Barack Obama, the Quintessential Liberal Fascist":
"[P]erhaps the most cunning propaganda feat in history has been undertaken for the past 8 years. As Jonah Goldberg expertly expounds in his book, Liberal Fascism, American left-wing ideologues have managed to dissociate themselves from all the horrors of fascism with a "brilliant rhetorical maneuver." They've done it by "claiming that their opponents are the fascists."
Alinsky himself employed this method, quite deviously. Alinsky biographer, Sanford D. Horwitt provides an anecdote using precisely this diabolical tactic to deceive the people. From Horwitt's Let Them Call Me Rebel:
"...in the spring of 1972, at Tulane University...students asked Alinsky to help plan a protest of a scheduled speech by George H. W. Bush, then U.S. representative to the United Nations - a speech likely to include a defense of the Nixon administration's Vietnam War policies. The students told Alinsky they were thinking about picketing or disrupting Bush's address. That's the wrong approach, he rejoined, not very creative - and besides causing a disruption might get them thrown out of school. He told them, instead, to go to hear the speech dressed as members of the Ku Klux Klan, and whenever Bush said something in defense of the Vietnam War, they should cheer and wave placards reading, ‘The KKK supports Bush.' And that is what they did, with very successful, attention-getting results."
Shiver continues:
Alinsky includes an entire section in Rules for Radicals on "The Ideology of Change." The watchword of the Obama campaign was "change." Just as Hitler mobilized the masses with a calculatingly undefined demand for "change," so did Alinsky disciple, Barack Obama.
"Everything must be different!" or "Alles muss anders sein!," Hitler's own campaign slogan, morphed into "Unite for Change," and the Obama transition team's change.gov. Even the idea of a vast "movement" was borrowed from Hitler. As Goldberg states, Hitler used the phrase, "the Movement," more than 200 times in Mein Kampf.
The word ‘movement' itself is instructive. Movement, unlike progress, doesn't imply a fixed destination. Rather, it takes it as a given that any change is better. (Goldberg; Liberal Fascism; p. 176)
This article is well worth the read. It exposes the illusory lies of the liberal machine.
Barack Obama, the Quintessential Liberal Fascist
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1....
"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner." — Malcolm Muggeridge
stage9...
Submitted by Phryj1 on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 4:49pm.
I find it kind of funny that the far-left accuses conservatives of being fascists AND anti-government extremists at the same time. Somehow, not only are we racist, sexist, homophobe, islamophobe, xenophobe, etc. we're also TOTALITARIAN ANARCHISTS!
Oh, and I've also read a few liberal blogs accusing us of being radical nationalist/imperialists who hate America. Yeah, try not to think about that for too long.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
Stone cold hypocrisy
Submitted by Agnostic on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 5:03pm.
Don't forget according to Oliver Stone Hitler is widely misunderstood and also, “(Hitler) did far more damage to the Russians than the Jewish people, 25 or 30 million. Hitler was a Frankenstein, but there was also a Dr. Frankenstein -- German industrialists, the Americans and the British. He had a lot of support.”
You don't need consistancy. Or maybe Reiner thinks the Tea Party is just misunderstood.
Hitler/Nazi comparisons
Submitted by Phryj1 on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 4:33pm.
Okay, if MEATHEAD wants to go there, let's do this...
Barack Obama, a man who coasted his way into the presidency based on charisma, cult of personality, and promises of hope and fundamental changes.
The Progressives, a small but aggressively power hungry political faction that strongarmed it's way into control of the Democratic party, thanks to Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi.
Obama is supported by union thugs, rioters, and violent leftist militants who have used threats, intimidation, and assaults against the opposition.
A compliant media that happily promotes and propagandizes the Progressives and their agenda.
Attempting to completely silence the opposition through spreading disinformation, false accusations, and fearmongering.
Keeping themselves in power by changing laws, filing lawsuits, ensuring they have oversight of elections, doing nothing to prevent voter fraud in their favor, and other underhanded tactics.
Some more food for thought, Obama wants to set up a "civilian security force", presumably drawing personnel from his supporter thugs. He wants his own Sturmabteilung.
Hey, Meathead! Why don't you take a good, long look at the party you support? In case you haven't noticed, it's been hijacked by folks who are doing a pretty good job of emulating the Nazis and other authoritarian regimes. Who's ignorant now?
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
Bill Maher
Submitted by papawterry on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 10:09pm.
Let maher talk... the more he talks the more obvious how big an idiot he really is.
His own word 'douche bag' fits him perfectly.
If Hitler had an assistant to do his bidding today, Maher would buy his way into the job.