Daily Kos Loves Rep. Cohen Comparing GOP to Nazis
By Tim Graham | January 25, 2011 | 08:16
On Monday at the Daily Kos, H. Scott Prosterman slammed House Minority Leader Eric Cantor as he praised Rep. Steve Cohen, the man who suggested the Republican argument on health care used the "Big Lie," just like Nazi propaganda specialist Josef Goebbels enabled the Holocaust. Cohen earned a few brickbats from media liberals, but kept up the Nazi analogies on MSNBC even as he insincerely apologized. While Cantor was the kind of Jew who survived in the South by being agreeable -- for example the kind that "looked the other way when lynchings occurred" to save their own skin -- Cohen was Prosterman's hero:
Why pull punches? Steve Cohen (D-TN) has been my political hero for a long time, and I have never been more proud of Steve Cohen. Steve has the balls and spine to call out the fact that Republicans are engaging in the SAME tactics that the Nazis did in Europe - taking a big lie, and repeating it over and over, louder and louder, until people believe it. Meanwhile, Eric Cantor keeps enabling the lie of the "birthers", by not calling it a lie. Cantor's career as a Republican apologist goes back to when his daddy was Reagan's State Campaign Treasurer in 1980...
It is mystifying how some Jews support politicians and causes that are INIMICAL to our interests. Cantor supported everything DeLay did, forgetting the fact that the movement he supports wants to round up all the Jews and send them to Israel, so they can get on with their Apocalypse. [??] And he's enabling them. By refusing to call out the birthers as a lunatic fringe, he gives them credibility and dignity that was not earned. But this is the guy who was gifted a prominent House leadership post that he never earned, other than being the "Jew by the Door"* for a brutal, dishonest in inhumane agenda.
Steve Cohen has been wrongfully vilified for speaking a truth, which the American media has avoided facing since 1980: that the Republican Party does indeed employ the tactics of the Nazi Party, by repeating big lies as gospel. I was disappointed that Jon Stewart took Cohen to task for this. After all, Cohen only summarized what Stewart has been saying 4 nights a week for the past 10 years. You go Steve. Eric - SHUT UP!
*Acknowledgement and perhaps apologies are due to Sam Greenlee, the author of the great book, "The Spook Who Sat by the Door." I recommend that book to Eric Cantor.
According to Wikipedia, "The title refers to a practice in the early days of affirmative action, when the first Black person hired by a company or agency would be seated close to the office entrance, so that all who came and went could see that the company was racially mixed. The word "Spook" in the title has a dual meaning: it has been used as a racial slur against Blacks, as well as a slang term for a spy." Prosterman apparently loves this book because the black man who gets CIA training uses his knowledge to start a guerrilla race war in Chicago.
In any case, this is not the first time Prosterman has attacked Cantor for beinig anti-Jewish by supporting Tom DeLay, supporter of Israel. In the well-named Ethical Spectacle in 2005, Prosterman accuses Christians of "genocide," with Cantor assisting:
In the 1970’s, young Christians in public schools across the country, joined in a huge proselytizing mission to convert their non-Christian friends to their faith. They pressured public schools into allowing use of school resources for their very personal "faith based" agenda. Teachers and administrators winked at this transgression of separation of church and state. Some were truly afraid of burning in hell if they didn’t enable and promote the Jesus Freak agenda. Do the terms Jesus Freak and "cultural genocide" seem inflammatory? Considering, they came up with the former as an attempt to “mainstream” their movement into 1970’s culture; they wanted to convert ALL non-Christians to their faith, and aggressively worked at this, I don’t think so. What is the definition of any kind of effort to eliminate or extinguish a particular culture, religion or race? Spare me the euphemisms; it’s genocide.
Now those guys are running the country and doing their best to finish off the agenda they started in high school. President George W. Bush and Sen. Bill Frist are leading the way. Tom DeLay is trying to coat-tail it for his own political survival.
Eric Cantor (R-VA,) is a Jewish “moderate Republican” from Richmond. He is majority whip in the house and one of many young Republicans in Congress who owe political chits to Tom DeLay. How does DeLay hang on, despite calls for his resignation from colleagues, newspapers, websites and columnist across the spectrum? Everybody else owes him. Republicans contribute richly to one another’s campaigns and “legal defense funds”.
Between Delay’s support for most Republicans and his support for Israel, Cantor and other Jewish Republicans not only feel beholden to him, but have bought into his hubris. They believe he is politically indestructible, and that any criticism of him would be a bad career move.
But grandstanding about the evangelical mission of the Terry Schiavo crusade is hardly “good for the Jews.” Rather, it promotes the very notion of this disingenuous political quid pro quo. Attacking judges and the judiciary for their intent to uphold the Constitutional balance of powers, and separation of church and state is definitely not “good for the Jews.” The “faith based” agenda of allowing churches to receive federal money to further their goals is really not “good for the Jews.” Ultimately, the “faith based” agenda brings the focus back to making Christianity the official state religion of the United States. To their way of thinking, it would prompt all the Jews to move to Israel and be a real sign that “the Apocalypse is upon us.” But this use of the phrase would not be the punch line of a joke.
During my arguments with Jesus Freaks and their parents in high school, I was often re-assured, “We LOVE the Jewish people. Jesus was a Jew and we HONOR Judaism. We want to help ALL of you get back to Israel where you really want to be.”
Tom DeLay LOVES the Jewish people. So does Bill Frist. They want to help ALL of us get back to Israel so they can get on with their Apocalypse. DeLay was recently an honored guest at a convention of Texas Evangelicals; indeed he is the political face of their movement, and a Jewish Congressman from Virginia has bought into it.
Eric Cantor is a naïve and willing stooge in this Congressional passion play...
[Hat tip: What Would Barak Think?]
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Looking In The Mirror
Submitted by GeneralAl on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 8:41am.
This Kosmonut is merely looking in the mirror. Hey Prostateman, you've got three fingers pointing back at you and your kind [Whatever kind that is!] when you point one finger at others!
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Get Out the Tin Foil
Submitted by richb313 on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 8:44am.
If I keep expposing myself to these political rants from the left-o-sphere I am going to have to break out the tin foil soon. They must have been exposed to that Government Brain Wave machine all the Tin Foil Hat crowd talks about so much. I had dismissed the rantings of these types as a brand of lunacy, but after reading some of the theories in this article I will have to reconsider my previous opinion. Maybe there is something to the Govt. Brain Wave Machine after all. A normal person simply could not believe anything Mr. Prosterman and some of his friends at the Daily KOS actually believe so there might actually some credence to the Brain Wave theory. Now where did I put that tin foil.
Ofcourse he's the darling of
Submitted by Barack_must_go..... on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 8:53am.
Of course he's the darling of the Kos.
What's not to love? Cohen is turning out to be a regular Alan Grayson.
Barack_Must_Go.....
Haters and hate
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 9:35am.
In her book The New American Revolution, Tammy Bruce describes the perspective of hateful narcissists. To paraphrase her here, just as liars rationalize their behavior by believing that everyone lies to them, and thieves rationalize stealing because they believe everyone wants to steal from them, narcissists hate those who disagree with them because they believe that those people hate them, the narcissists.
Prosterman and his hair-brained conspiracy theory equating evangelism to genocide appears to be such an example. Note his use of the label "Jesus Freaks," and his insistence that the statements of evangelicals are somehow crytically telling him "Move to Israel." He is a hater.
In this vane, he sees Cantor as a willing dupe of DeLay, working against his own self-interest (indeed, his own survival, to hear Prosterman tell it), much like a Jewish kapo in a Nazi concentration camp assisted with the administration of the system designed to ultimately destroy him. Cantor thus gets de-legitamized of his Jewish identity by Prosterman, just as Clarence Thomas, Michael Steele, and now Rep. West (R-FL) are stripped of their racial identity by the Rece Industry.
We also see this hatred manifested in the play of the Race Card by the Left. While many Leftists throw it down merely to cut off arguments and demonize opponents, there are also many who believe that whites hate them, therefore they must hate whites and call them racists.
About this Nazi stuff...
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 10:03am.
there is one noteworthy distinction regarding the respective tactics of the two major politcal parties when deploying totalitarian imagery. Dems generally limit their smears of Republicans to Nazi analogies, whereas Republicans utilize both communist and Nazi comparisons in their hyperbolic attacks.
Jer
Is that all there is.............
Submitted by Tomorama on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 10:10am.
That's all you have this morning Jer?
You haven't been posting much and that is what comes out as leftist genius?
Damn my friend, I expect better.
That's it, Tomorama...
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 10:17am.
My time has been limited lately, so my genius must be expressed in short bursts rather than via sustained bombardments. More pith...fewer words.
Jer
Did you hear what he lisper
Submitted by Jack Bauer on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 11:47am.
Did you hear what he lisper said to he speech therapist? 'Pith off.'
All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.
No...
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 12:05pm.
but a perfect example of the power of brevity: More pith...fewer words
Jer
While the ideological bases of . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 11:10am.
. . . Communism and Nazism are diametrically opposed, history has borne out that in practice, their governance and tactics are very much the same.
What I find interesting in the blogosphere is that many agree that the hyperbole has gotten crazy, but they defend their use of it because it's 'truth.'
Come on, Jer!
Submitted by C-townGiant on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 11:23am.
That comment is beneath you! You know in your heart that both sides are guilty of using such imagery and analogies.
I can be honest and upfront about it, and just say, "I don't like it and I don't approve of you doing it." I will not point fingers at one side over the other when both sides are equally guilty.
Especially when you consider that Dems use slurs such as, "Republicans want to kill children/starve children/throw single mothers out into the streets/etc. etc. etc." That may not be "totalitarian" imagery, but it sure smacks of hyperbole.
C-townGiant...
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 11:54am.
Exactly what part of my acknowledgement that "Democrats smear Republicans with Nazi" comparisons implies that Dems are not guilty of using such imagery and analogies? I merely observed the Republicans draw from a broader range of totalitarian sources.
By the way, other than you in your present post, can you point to a single instance of an NB commenter or blogger who has posited that both sides are equally guilty?....Or even goes as far as I did in assigning blame to each party?
Jer
Jer...
Submitted by C-townGiant on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 2:50pm.
I think it was the Republicans use both Nazi and Communist analogies, while saying the Democrats only use Nazi analogies.
My point was that while Dems could never call Repubs "communist," you can use that tag on some Dems. But I would go one step further and say that there are Dems that subscribe to communist ideology, or socialist ideology, or statist ideology rather than calling them "communists."
Although, to be fair, the only people proven to be communists during the Red Scare in the '40's and '50's were...Democrats.
And you are right that so far I am the only one to point out that both sides are equally guilty. Like I said, I want it all to stop. Especially the Nazi imagery. That needs to be put to bed once and for all...BY EVERYBODY!
As for the Congressman, he is in west TN, and I am in east TN, so Memphis can have him (if they are inclined to remain stupid enough to elect him).
Breakfast is now ruined
Submitted by Tomorama on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 10:06am.
Tim, I take great offense that you felt is necessary to place a picture of this cretin shirtless without posting a pre-warning.
Sir..... you need to call your shots.
Shoot, can I still say that?
It really makes you wonder how people end up like Prostateman, did someone throw him in the air as a baby and forget to catch him?
At Prosterman's birth,
Submitted by HockeyKid on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 10:44am.
His momma took one look at him, screamed, and threw him to Papa, who caught the little tyke on the first bounce. After seeing the ugly little mug, Papa bounce-passed him to the doctor and yelled, "Put it BACK!!"
Ever since, he's been "a bit tetched in the haid".
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Cantor did dismiss the
Submitted by Free Thinker on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 10:22am.
Cantor did dismiss the birther nonsense, but I felt he missed a golden opportunity to remind David Gregory that Gregory needs to be asking Hillary Clinton about the whole birther thing since it started with her campaign. This kosmonaut is just mad that Cantor didn't take the bait.
No need to really comment on anything else Prosterman said, it is not worth anyone's time.
The left ARE Nazis!
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 10:24am.
The left has always used the big lie; R's gonna starve Grandma, R's gonna take SS away, R's gonna bring back slavery, R's want sick people to die, and Obama with his personal lies; Doc's cut off body parts for cash, Big Oil is evil, Big Government is your friend, spending more than you have is a good thing.
I could go on.
I just can't get past the pictures.
Submitted by Lipton on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 10:39am.
Whoever called him a naricissist is spot on.
Wow
Submitted by HockeyKid on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 10:41am.
That's some case of narcissistic paranoia ya got goin' there, Mr. Prosterman.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Liberal tolerance on parade.
Submitted by wiwf on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 11:25am.
Liberal tolerance on parade.
Posterman's Crazy Room
Submitted by Boil It Down on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 11:25am.
Posterman has worked very hard to construct a very small frightening space and reinfoces it with paranoid delusions. He needs help, not support for his paranoia from the Daily KOS. I'd hate to be living in such a small ugly world.
Civility!
Submitted by iveseenitall on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 11:56am.
Name calling and ignroant cheap shots from the left. Generalities and other logical fallacies abound. Ah,the sweet smell of civility!
BTW--Check out Joe Lieberman's comments as he exits the rat-hole we call the Congress of the United States. Even he can't stand it anymore.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal" (progressive)
What a crying shame that an as* like Cohen can cheapen
Submitted by no tingly legs on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 11:53am.
the misery and death suffered by Jews during the Holocaust by equating Republicans to the Nazi butchers. Next I suppose he'll cheapen what 3,000 Americans endured on 9/11 by comparing Republicans to Al Qaeda terrorists. Cohen loses all credibility when making these comparisons and makes one doubt his intelligence, even his sanity....much like Grayson.
As for Prosterman, he's just a loon and his comments aren't worthy of criticism or even of dissemination by NB. He's just nuts. I think he needs extra layers of tinfoil on his hat to absorb more of those alien mind beams.
From American
Submitted by SonnyPalermo on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 11:59am.
(I'm not registered at kos, don't want the kosmonauts to flood my e-mail box with hate; if anyone here is registered, can you post this, or would it be deleted anyway?)
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/01/congressman_cohen_was_correc...
From American Thinker
January 24, 2011
Congressman Cohen was correct about GoebbelsSonny Palermo
On January 8th, a madman opened fire on a crowd of people in Tucson, Arizona.On January 9th, the media-as-piranha began their feeding frenzy on Sarah Palin.
On January 21, 2011, Palin's approval rating dropped to a new low of 38%.
"You say it enough and you repeat the lie, repeat the lie, repeat the lie until eventually people believe it."
When Congressman Steve Cohen made the above remark he was attempting to paint the G.O.P as Nazis, but in reality he was reading directly from the play book of the Left and their public relations operating arm, otherwise known as the media.
The Tucson Solution PR takedown of Palin was fast, effective and complete. It was accomplished despite an absolute lack of evidence of any involvement on her part. But what's most troubling is that the voices who stand in opposition to the leftist takeover of this country knew the shootings were being exploited in true Emanuelean fashion -- "Never let a crisis go to waste." The play was telegraphed. They saw it coming, watched it happen, and still were unable to prevent it. This is a sad and scary day for any Liberty-loving citizen who is paying attention and properly assessed the Left Wing process of destruction and its success.
The media should be vilified for the sheer barbarity of exploiting such a tragedy for political gain. Instead, they emerge victorious and clean. The Wicked Witch of the Left and the flying monkey media ravaged an opposing political force. They are the enemy: focused, partisan and inhumane. God help our nation if conservatives do not find a way to effectively counter with more than equal force.
Sarah Palin proved to be a formidable political force when she flexed her muscles in the 2010 midterms. The Left is determined to not let it happen again in 2012, so they went to work on the not-so-independent minds of Independents - the true controlling class of voters in American politics. They bombarded them with an unrelenting barrage of false images on television, the blogging community and in newspapers. They took Sarah Palin from the political playing field and like the little monster from the Twilight Zone sent her to the corn field. Monster, an apt description. Cohen was correct when he made his Goebbels references. He just had the party wrong.
Interesting tagline...
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 12:23pm.
"Disagree with a conservative and they will say you're wrong. Disagree with a liberal and they'll hate you."
The fact that I constantly hear or read those exact or nearly exact words stated by libs--except "conservative" and "liberal" are interchanged--says a lot about the depth and breadth of the ideological divide in this country.
Jer
look at cohens face!!
Submitted by Patriot II on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 12:09pm.
If thats not a nazi "ve hav vays uff findink out".....face, I don't know what is...I can see the swastika on his hat now..........he is a screwloose!!!
Those are photos of Prosterman.
Submitted by Mike Bratton on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 12:20pm.
Not Cohen.
And your take on the issues being discussed would be interesting.
--Mike
So, anti-Semitism is bad, but anti-Christian bigotry is good?
Submitted by Mike Bratton on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 12:15pm.
Well, at least in the writings of Prosterman. Obviously, they're both evil, but he vigorously indulges the latter, sad to say.
As a Memphis-area resident when Cohen was first elected to the Tennessee State Senate, I've been more familiar with his worldview than Prosterman, and let's just say Cohen's worldview isn't as testosterone-laden as Prosterman imagines it to be. Cohen is a mere party-line Democrat, yet one who believes his Jewish heritage gives him cover to make slanderous, sometimes Holocaust-tinged statements.
Prosterman is no better. To categorize Christian evangelism of Jews as being a "cultural genocide" was demonstrably wrong, demonstrably bigoted, but it does explain his attraction to Cohen.
--Mike
The NAZI charge coming from the left is a real howler...
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 1:25pm.
...especially when you look at what Frau Janet Himmler is currently up to, along with the Obamafuhrer's FCC.
-Dave
The true religion
Submitted by ArchieBunker on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 1:40pm.
"The true religion of Liberal Jews is Liberalism, not Judaism." Norman Podhoretz
Imagine my (profound lack of) surprise!
Submitted by Phryj1 on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 10:23pm.
The left-wing lemmings at the Daily Koolaid compare us to Nazis with like every other post. Naturally, they're going to be overjoyed when an elected official echoes their sentiments.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
"Jer," Look at the cable
Submitted by SonnyPalermo on Wed, 01/26/2011 - 12:35pm.
"Jer,"
Look at the cable networks.
On FOX you see disgreement between two sides.
On msnbc you see one side only, with the extremely rare rhino or fake tea party rep thrown in for appearances.
On FOX primetime, it is obvious Hannity does not like obama. But you don't see anger on a nightly basis, you don't see hate.
On msnbc prime time, you see every host, angry, hating the tea party, hating conservatives.
The only ones who cannot see where the hatred truly lies are the ones doing the hating and the ones wearing blinders.
I used to be liberal in thought, but as I grew older, and wiser, I saw the hatred surrounding me and wanted no part of it. A liberal can only truly be happy when he is protesting something and hating someone - it's why they are so obsessed with Palin. She feeds their hate and thus, keeps them happy.