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1. #1
   On April 3rd, 2008 at 4:26 pm, bloghooligan said:

   we have let these people get away with rewriting, ignoring, and reinventing history for far too long.

   i feel a change coming, and i love it.

   long live the blogosphere.

2. #2
   On April 3rd, 2008 at 4:32 pm, KaosKlerik said:

   I’m still waiting for someone to show me the long list of innocent government people McCarthy named as Communists.

3. #3
   On April 3rd, 2008 at 4:45 pm, DBNinKY said:

   “As with Robert “Sheets” Byrd, as with postmodernist Nazi Paul deMan, a flirtation with (or seduction by) evil can be overlooked by the Progressives…if they judge you’re now sufficiently useful to Progress.”

   It is horrifying the number of camels Progressives are willing to swallow in order to advance their position, and galling the number of minute gnats they strain if they can taint the GOP in the process.

4. #4
   On April 3rd, 2008 at 5:01 pm, Rusty said:

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

5. #5
   On April 3rd, 2008 at 5:06 pm, scooter56 said:

   A eulogy concerns the dignity that pertains to the man insofar as he is more than everything he does or creates. To recognize and celebrate this dignity is not the business of experts and colleagues in a profession; it is the public that must judge a life which has been exposed to the public view and proved itself in the public realm.

6. #6
   On April 3rd, 2008 at 5:06 pm, feebiebabe said:

   Rusty: There are some unmarked mass graves in Eastern Europe that says it does.

7. #7
   On April 3rd, 2008 at 5:11 pm, graysonret said:

   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.

8. #8
   On April 3rd, 2008 at 5:13 pm, DaveC said:

   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….

9. #9
   On April 3rd, 2008 at 5:28 pm, Rusty said:

   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.

10. #10
    On April 3rd, 2008 at 5:31 pm, DaveC said:

    And Al Gore Sr.? and Robert Byrd?

11. #11
    On April 3rd, 2008 at 5:39 pm, in_awe said:

    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.

12. #12
    On April 3rd, 2008 at 5:43 pm, JsinGood said:

    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.

13. #13
    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?

14. #14
    On April 3rd, 2008 at 7:45 pm, zorro said:

    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.

15. #15
    On April 3rd, 2008 at 10:58 pm, DaveC said:

    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..

16. #16
    On April 4th, 2008 at 1:30 am, Paul-Cincy said:

    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”.

17. #17
    On April 4th, 2008 at 7:40 am, Ricco said:

    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?

18. #18
    On April 4th, 2008 at 9:14 am, lgm said:

    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.

19. #19
    On April 4th, 2008 at 10:39 am, DBNinKY said:

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

20. #20
    On April 4th, 2008 at 12:18 pm, feebiebabe said:

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

    Oy

21. #21
    On April 5th, 2008 at 1:54 pm, blogagog said:

    Don’t use the bathroom in a glass house.