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Democrats: Wrong to call Islamofascists fascists, OK to call fellow Americans fascists

Mark Levin had the Angry Adolescent Nutroots' favorite failed House and Senate candidate Paul Hackett on his radio show, after Hackett spewed some extremely tasteless and juvenile insults at Dan Senor, former Senior Advisor to Paul Bremer, the former Adminstrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. Hackett, showing the sort of originality and good taste we expect from the left, basically called Senor a Nazi.

Video of Hackett's attack here. Audio of his radio appearance with Levin here.

Mark Levin: Did you know Mr. Senor's mother survived the Holocaust, did you know that when you were making those Nazi insinuations?

Paul Hackett: Well, actually I didn't....

Mark Levin: And do you regret them now?

Hackett: No...[irrelevant anti-Rumsfeld blather]...No.

...

Hackett: I did not introduce the Nazi dialogue...

Look what Hackett is trying to say there. Some conservatives and members of the Bush administration have been making the comparison of our current terrorist enemies to some of our enemies of the past, such as Nazis, communists and fascists. Hackett is calling a fellow American who served in Iraq (as a civilian) a Nazi. By saying in essence "he started it" Hackett is implying that calling the terrorists fascists and calling his fellow American a Nazi are somehow equivalent, or that the former somehow justifies the latter. In other words, Hackett is asserting some equivalence in "the Nazi dialogue" comparing Osama bin Ladin to the Nazis and Hackett's own words comparing Senor to the Nazis. There also seems to be an implicit objection from the left to calling our Islamofascist enemies "fascists." Not just that it's an inaccurate historical reference, which is debatable, but that it's somehow wrong to call them that.

Or, Hackett is a foul-mouthed, hot-headed, unthinking ignoramus who just plain doesn't know what he's saying. Take your pick.

We caught a few minutes of the Rush Limbaugh show this morning, and he was making a similar observation - liberals/Democrats didn't object much, if at all, when Senator Durbin compared U.S. troops serving at Guantanamo Bay to Nazis and communists, but they are speaking up to object when our radical Islamist enemies are compared to Nazis or fascists. People who are so morally confused simply cannot be trusted with the majority in Congress in 2006 or with the presidency in 2008.

The Democrats think the enemy is the Bush administration. Republicans think the enemy is radical Islamic terrorism. Voters must decide which view they agree with in November.



posted by: The Editors @ 12:01 pm September 1, 2006


2 Comments

  1. whew! after viewing the heartland video, and hearing the levin interview i can only
    surmise that mr hackett is mentally disturbed.

    Comment by sookietex — September 1, 2006 @ 5:38 pm September 1, 2006


  2. [...] Like we said before: The Democrats think the enemy is the Bush administration. Republicans think the enemy is radical Islamic terrorism. Voters must decide which view they agree with in November. [...]

    Pingback by The Unalienable Right » Brit Hume on "real war" on FNS — September 3, 2006 @ 12:29 pm September 3, 2006


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