Comments on: Throwing Stones At The Man In The Glass House

By: blogagog

blogagog — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:54:23 +0000

Don’t use the bathroom in a glass house.

By: feebiebabe

feebiebabe — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:18:34 +0000

lgm – Oh, of course you arent…we would be morons to assume that from your post….(sarc/off).

By: DBNinKY

DBNinKY — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:39:35 +0000

There are no true intellectuals supporting either Clinton or Obama, only pseudo-intellectuals.

By: lgm

lgm — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:14:05 +0000

There were a few intellectuals who supported Hitler, a few authors, actors, architects, scientists, … . Today there are a few intellectuals who support Bush. About the same percentage. I’m not comparing Bush to Hitler, just saying that intellectuals are mostly but not always right.

By: Ricco

Ricco — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:40:59 +0000

Because Wagner was Hitler’s favorite composer and Von Karajan was Hitler’s favorite conductor and Strauss was president of the Reichsmusikkammer (Reich Music Chamber) under Hitler there are those who firmly believe that we should not listen to ANYTHING they have done.

What say ye?

By: Paul-Cincy

Paul-Cincy — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:30:49 +0000

If McCarthy was rooting out Nazis in the US in the 1930s with the same fervor he went after Commies in the 1950s, today McCarthyism would mean “when anyone ferrets out enemies of the state in a heroic way”.

By: DaveC

DaveC — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:58:52 +0000

On April 3rd, 2008 at 6:36 pm, Sethery said:

I thought that Nazism was the radical LEFT, not right, of the time. They were the party of National Socialism.

Jonah Goldberg explains in Liberal Fascism that socialism is inherently left-wing, but that the Nazis and Italian Fascists were on the right-end of the socialist movement due to their nationalism. You’re essentially correct. Nazism was “right wing” from the far-far-left Communist point-of-view. Since the Communists vilified the Nazis so much, I have to wonder what they thought of conservatives?

the political spectrum is not really a line.. more of a circle.. where someone can be so far right, be actually left..

Hitler.. the MSM calls him far right..( you’ll be hard put to find the MSM calling someone far left.. but that’s another post for another day ) but he pushed for nationalism and the whole racial cleansing thing.. as well as euthanasia for elderly people……. Anyhoo.. if you look and study groups like the nazis that encompass both extreme left AND right ideas, how else would you describe the spectrum unless it’s curved.. all the way into a circle..

By: zorro

zorro — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:45:20 +0000

As with Robert “Sheets” Byrd, as with postmodernist Nazi Paul deMan

Add Formula One’s Max Mosley to the list. He and his Nazi father’s past came out in spades this week in a video s&m orgy.

By: Sethery

Sethery — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:36:19 +0000

I thought that Nazism was the radical LEFT, not right, of the time. They were the party of National Socialism.

Jonah Goldberg explains in Liberal Fascism that socialism is inherently left-wing, but that the Nazis and Italian Fascists were on the right-end of the socialist movement due to their nationalism. You're essentially correct. Nazism was "right wing" from the far-far-left Communist point-of-view. Since the Communists vilified the Nazis so much, I have to wonder what they thought of conservatives?

By: JsinGood

JsinGood — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:43:50 +0000

Johnson’s opinions in the thirties swung easily from a radical-right dalliance with Nazism back toward the radical left and back again.

I thought that Nazism was the radical LEFT, not right, of the time. They were the party of National Socialism.

By: in_awe

in_awe — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:39:54 +0000

Western liberals in the 1930’s worshipped the great Soviet experiment and were willing to turn a blind eye to Stalin’s pogroms and “cleansing” of the Army’s officer corps (a move he later came to regret)and any other “necessity” of moving a society toward the utopian ideal. Even today the apologists for communism just cannot bring themselves to admit that a political movement that murdered 100MM of its own citizens is evil.

As for admirers and accomplices of fascism in the 1930’s you can include Lindburg, IBM, Ford, and General Motors among others. All of whom continued to interact and do business with Hitler after the war began in 1939. Some of the same fascist admirers agreed with Hilter’s racial purity programs – which were modeled after some eugenics programs run in the US during the 1920’s by states like Virginia.

Let’s just say that the 1930’s was not a time when everyone stood firmly for democratic principles.

By: DaveC

DaveC — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:31:35 +0000

And Al Gore Sr.? and Robert Byrd?

By: Rusty

Rusty — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:28:51 +0000

Sanger. She was into eugenics (but not Nazis). The Kennedy example was already used. Senator Prescott Bush, the president’s grandfather, was linked to the Nazis as well.

These people are all on the wrong side of history. But that doesn’t make Johnson’s architecture any less remarkable.

By: DaveC

DaveC — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:13:50 +0000

And Henry Ford was a Nazi sympathizer. Doesn’t make his work towards revolutionizing American industry any less impressive

And the woman who started Planned Parenthood (can’t remember her name right now) .. she hated blacks….

By: graysonret

graysonret — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:11:11 +0000

Even old bootlegger Joe Kennedy supported Hitler. Lots of the “enlightened” thought his policies were great. It shows that just because you’re successful at one thing, makes you no expert at everything. Take note, movie stars. Ego can hurt you.