Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
From the Washington Independent Anti-Defamation League Condemns Limbaugh: “Deeply Offensive”:
The Anti-Defamation League is out with a statement shaming Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives for bringing Nazi and Hitler comparisons into the debate on health care. ADL’s national director Abe Foxman takes direct aim at the radio talk show host for his extended comparison, on yesterday’s show, between the modern Democrats and the Nazis, like smoking bans and being “against big business.”
The whole statement:
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today called attempts by some opponents of health care reform to bring Nazi imagery into the debate, “outrageous, deeply offensive and inappropriate” and condemned remarks by talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, who compared President Obama’s health care logo to a swastika, and policies championed by the Democratic Party to those of the Nazis.
“Regardless of the political differences and the substantive differences in the debate over health care, the use of Nazi symbolism is outrageous, offensive and inappropriate,” said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director and a Holocaust survivor. “Americans should be able to disagree on the issues without coloring it with Nazi imagery and comparisons to Hitler. This is not where the debate should be at all.”
In recent days, street protests against President Obama’s health care plan have gotten ugly, with some protestors appearing in photographs wearing swastika and SS symbols.
That prompted Rush Limbaugh to remark on his radio program that, “They accuse us of being Nazis, and Obama’s got a healthcare logo that’s right out of Adolf Hitler’s playbook.” He went on to compare certain Democratic Party policies to those of the Nazis.
“Comparisons to the Nazis are deeply offensive and only serve to diminish and trivialize the extent of the Nazi regime’s crimes against humanity and the murder of six million Jews and millions of others in the Holocaust,” said Mr. Foxman. “I don’t see any comparison here. It’s off-center, off-issue and completely inappropriate.”
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AZmama:
That is a bad situation, but it is insurance. Would you expect your car insurance to continue to cover you if you crashed all the time? Would you expect your homeowners insurance to continue if you set your house on fire once a week?
Health insurance is no different.
Steven Pearlstein is a longtime business and financial columnist and reporter (and last year’s Pulitzer winner for commentary). He is no one’s idea of a predictable leftie. Thus when he writes a column like this, it carries weight and is newsworthy.
AZMama, that is terrible and unfair. It is EXACTLY the kind of situation, that healthcare reform is meant to solve.
With one side (X) labeling the other (Y) as National Socialists (Nazis) and the other (Y) labeling (X) as political terrorists, little civil debate will occur.
http://arizona.typepad.com/blog/2009/08/steven-pearlstein-on-gop-propaganda.html
I say a pox on both uncivil groups (X and Y).
Joseph Goebbles was just as dangerous at composing dangerous propaganda. And I’d suggest that the larger success of the Holocaust was due in large part to the message master. For every story I’ve watched re: those who are firing up this hysterical bunch, I can’t help but see a message campaign that is headed down a tragic path.
All of this over healthcare?!? All of this over trying to find a way to raise the quality of life for America’s citizens? All of this to offer a family a moment’s peace in those final dark hours? All of this to lessen the burden of healthcare costs?
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of moral crisis, maintain a neutrality.” Dante
Bill Moyers interviewed Wendell Potter. It was an eye-opening, infuriating look at the misinformation campaign waged by insurance companies. http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07312009/transcript4.html
Sorry if I going on and on. I’m just a little pissy. See, my husband just received a notice from BCBS that because he had two non-cancerous polyps removed a little over two and a half years ago, they will exclude him from ever being covered for another procedure should his symptoms require it. Removing polyps NOW when they are just benign little pockets on the intestinal wall is a GOOD thing. When you DON’T find them in time, THAT can lead to a VERY BAD THING: Cancer. So a procedure that would cost my insurance company $5-$8,000 in preventative treatment, COULD end up costing hundreds of thousands more IF his polyps return and aren’t removed in time, if they are found at all. But here’s the part that really sucks: IF the polyps return, and IF they end up cancerous one day down the road, my insurance company WON’T cover those hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical expenses…because it was a pre-existing condition.
If ANYONE should be out there angrily protesting, it’s families who have been told by big insurance companies that their loved one was being denied care that would have prevented their suffering. Insurance CEOs should hang their heads in shame.
Editors Note: It appears that Nobama has a playmate (or an alter ego). If you can’t engage in civil discourse, you go to the spam file, Robert.
Rush Limbaugh has made a career out of comparing all things progressive as Nazi related. Remember Feminazis?
As someone who lost relatives in the Holocaust, it is offensive and it does trivialize the horror of Hitler’s crimes. Limbaugh doesn’t have the empathy or the intellect to get that though.