HOLOCAUST HYPERBOLE, PT. II

By Michelle Malkin  •  June 9, 2005 12:28 PM

Apropos of Charlie Rangel’s Holocaust hyperbole, McQ and Jon Henke at Q and O respond, and Henke raises an excellent point over the disparate treatment of Santorum vs. Rangel.

One of my blog faves, Jeff Harrell at Shape of Days, rips Rangel into itty-itty-bitty pieces.

And the New York Daily News’ Lloyd Grove adds more details and reax from the ADL:

Yesterday, after [WWRL-AM morning show host Steve] Malzberg sent me an audiotape of Rangel’s appearance, ADL President Abraham Foxman responded: “It is so outrageous that a leader of Congress would compare one thing to the other. Sometimes we say it’s ignorance. Charlie Rangel is not ignorant. Charlie Rangel has been there.”

On the radio show, Rangel also suggested that proponents of military action – namely Vice President Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld’s former deputy Paul Wolfowitz and Pentagon adviser Richard Perle – don’t worry about the Americans in Iraq because they’re “black and poor white soldiers” from “the lower economic class.”

“They had a plan to put our kids in harm’s way long before 9/11,” Rangel said. “Because it’s not their kids … that’s exactly why. They go and pick a fight, and then say, ‘I’ll hold your coat.’”

Foxman retorted: “It is so outrageous that I think he owes an apology not only to the families of the victims of the Shoah, but he also owes an apology to the soldiers who are fighting for freedom.

“If the world had recognized the evil of Hitler early enough – just like we’re confronting the evil of terrorism and fundamentalism now – then maybe the 6 million wouldn’t have died.”

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