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'You Nazi!' David Hedrick On Brian Baird

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Chris D
Seattle, WA

A new viral video is sparking more debate over health care. Watch the YouTube clip of David Hedrick, ex-Marine, speaking to Representative Brian Baird (D-Wash.) last week at a town hall meeting. Here’s a pull quote for you:

“The Nazis were the National SOCIALIST Party. They were leftists. They took over the finance, they took over the car industry, they took over health care in that country. If Nancy Pelosi wants to find a swastika, maybe the first place she should look is the sleeve of her own arm.”

Rep. Brian Baird made his own health care debate splash earlier this month when he accused anti-health care reform Republicans of “brownshirt tactics” and compared them to “a lynch mob.” Hoping to avoid angry, pointless “debate,” Brian Baird cancelled his health care town hall meetings. After public uproar, he rescheduled them – and met David Hedrick. I understand that the man is angry, but I don’t understand his point.

Understanding the David Hedrick comment about Nancy Pelosi and Nazis requires some background information. Earlier this month, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused the anti-health care protesters of “carrying swastikas” to town hall meetings.

Some Republican bloggers responded that the only people carrying swastikas and Obama/Nazi posters to the rallies were extreme leftists – the “Lyndon LaRouche” crowd. (They are absolutely crazy.)

But – ironically – David Hedrick’s own comments, which he personally posted on YouTube, prove Nancy Pelosi’s point.

Aren’t protesters and politicians getting tired of calling the other side “Nazis?” I know I’m tired of hearing it.

(H/T to The Washington Independent)

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MajorJoeTaxpayer
Ringgold, GA

12 months ago: Please read the book, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning by Jonah Goldberg
Jonah Goldberg. It explains how the Nazi were actually uber-liberals, eerily similar to the Obama-istas.

Here's a review from Publishers Weekly:
In this provocative and well-researched book, Goldberg probes modern liberalism's spooky origins in early 20th-century fascist politics. With chapter titles such as Adolf Hitler: Man of the Left and Brave New Village: Hillary Clinton and the Meaning of Liberal Fascism—Goldberg argues that fascism has always been a phenomenon of the left. This is Goldberg's first book, and he wisely curbs his wry National Review style. Goldberg's study of the conceptual overlap between fascism and ideas emanating from the environmental movement, Hollywood, the Democratic Party and what he calls other left-wing organs is shocking and hilarious. He lays low such lights of liberal history as Margaret Sanger, apparently a radical eugenicist, and JFK, whose cult of personality, according to Goldberg, reeks of fascist political theater. Much of this will be music to conservatives' ears, but other readers may be stopped cold by the parallels Goldberg draws between Nazi Germany and the New Deal. The book's tone suffers as it oscillates between revisionist historical analyses and the application of fascist themes to American popular culture; nonetheless, the controversial arc Goldberg draws from Mussolini to The Matrix is well-researched, seriously argued—and funny. (Jan. 8)

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sanyaom6
Oceanside, CA

12 months ago: I admire you for reading the book.Was it self-published?

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sxex67
Dorr, MI

12 months ago: Sanyaom6

maybe you should look at the facts and read it yourself.. I did and it was very enlightening. The scary thing is that it is all true...

for you to not read it and then make some smarmy little childish joke says a lot about you and your ideas...

Why are you people on the left ignoring stuff that slaps you right in the face?

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JAK Gladney
Saint Albans, WV

12 months ago: Barney Frank had the right idea. Confront these whack-a-loons, burst their delusions.

Book for you, MajorJoeTaxpayer: Thomas Frank's "What's the Matter With Kansas".

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JAK Gladney
Saint Albans, WV

12 months ago: Interesting read. Center of agrarian radicalism at the turn of the last century, now completely reactionary.

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MajorJoeTaxpayer
Ringgold, GA

12 months ago: JAK,
Thanks for the book shout-out. I will venture down to my local city library (which I have to pay an annual fee to access because I live outside the city limits)and request by interlibrary loan. I think I know Kansans pretty well. If you were to evenly divide KS into four quadrants, I have lived in three of the four sections. I've traveled all over the state, have degrees from two of the state universities, and probably could've written Frank's book. I read several synopses of "What's the Matter with Kansas" after you brought it to my attention. The excerpts on Google books were interesting. Frank (Thomas, not Barney)is an entertaining writer, albeit with an Eastern bent. He may have grown up in Kansas (if you consider Shawnee Mission to be the "real Kansas") but he went to undergrad school back east in Virginia. (Well, OK, maybe VA is a mix of Southern and eastern elitist, but anything east of the Mississippi River is automatically suspect to Kansans. I say that with a smile because I've lived all over the U.S. and overseas, too, so I'm a curious mix of experiences and exposures. Thanks again for the book title, looking forward to a good read.

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