Community | August 07, 2009 | 19 comments

Pelosi Protesters, Including Kid In Stroller, Compare Obama To Hitler

source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/07/pelosi-protesters-includi_n_253762.html

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Two members of the audience at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) town hall meeting in Denver, Colorado, on Thursday -- including a toddler in a stroller -- were bedecked with images equating Barack Obama's policies to Nazism and the president to Hitler himself.

The photos, which were passed to the Huffington Post by a Democratic reader, are the latest evidence of the increasingly wild accusations leveled by protesters at health-care town halls -- though these may be some of the more remarkable yet.

In one image, a young man with a shirt that reads "Hitler Gave Great Speeches Too" is photographed making what looks like a Hitler salute. TalkLeft blogger Jeralyn Merritt interviewed the teen, who told her was 16 and hailed from former Gov. Sarah Palin's hometown of Wasilla, Alaska. The progressive website FireDogLake, has more.

In another picture, two children are being pushed in a double stroller, with the child in front holding a large white sign.

"No To Fascism!" it reads, with a Swastika crossed out in the upper right hand corner.

The Nazi analogizers were outliers amid a large crowd of protesters. But it is becoming increasingly clear that national conservatives, who see political benefit in disrupting these events, are fueling the resentment and envelop-pushing action. On Thursday, two of the most prominent figures in conservative media -- Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck -- both claimed that the Obama administration was a modern incarnation of Nazism.

"They accuse of us being Nazis, and Obama's got a healthcare logo that's right out of Adolf Hitler's playbook," said Limbaugh.
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19 comments // Pelosi Protesters, Including Kid In Stroller, Compare Obama To Hitler

  • gmiller1455
  • jh64487
  • artemis6
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      artemis6  

    • Where else can ignorant people make some bread ? I know times are tough , but should you try to destroy your own country for a few bucks . Seriously , These treacherous people have no friends but their hate .

    • 2 years ago
  • settler
  • arcticspirit
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      arcticspirit  

    • Saladin, and others here, lumping all people into such vast and offensive categories is a dangerous and irresponsible thing to do. It shouldn't be done.

      /I'm sad to see everyone sink so low again.

    • 2 years ago
  • jh64487
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      jh64487  
    • arcticspirit:

      i think we're only lumping crazies into the "crazy" category.

      if you're going to these "tea party" protests and you're serious you are crazy. and that's pretty much the end of it...

    • 2 years ago
  • Saladin
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      Saladin  

    • I don't remember who said it, but I think it was the perfect description of these fucking morons.

      "To a conservative, he's an atheist on Monday, a Communist on Tuesday, A Muslim on Wednesday, a Nazi on Thursday and on Friday he's all 4."

      "Democrats have gone from the center to the right and Republicans have gone from the right to a straitjacket."

    • 2 years ago
  • WakeUpPeople
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      WakeUpPeople  

    • Here's an excellent example of what Republican's consider "grassroots" protests.

      I'm sorry, but it ceases to be grassroots when the protesters are on the payroll.

    • 2 years ago
  • masterzip
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      masterzip  

    • I did not know that Hitler threatened his people with health care, or reducing their monthly expense burden.

      The republicans may just make hitler out to be a decent guy with all this referring him to hitler stuff.

    • 2 years ago
  • jubal
  • GoodGodGuy
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      GoodGodGuy  

    • These "protests" are being organized and transporting people from one district to another on a payroll.

      If you pay your protestors, they may do a better job like these idiots.

      Keep on Keeping on RNC

    • 2 years ago
  • WakeUpPeople
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      WakeUpPeople  
    • GoodGodGuy:

      The best govt money can buy. Republicans and lobbyists are really good at manufacturing grassroots campaigns. It looks just like the real thing! Here's another grassroots "protest" back in the 2001 election of card carrying Republican federal staff members (who were paid for their efforts to stop the ballot recount).

    • 2 years ago
  • crob80227
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      crob80227  

    • Say what you will, but these protesters are incredibly smart.

      Smart enough to leave their Klan hoods at home at least!

      Not smart enough to realize "creationism" isn't science nor smart enough to actually give an accurate definition of "socialism" -- but at least media savy enough to frame their racism/schizophrenia as "debate" (though their definition of "debate" seems to begin and end with screaming "Hitler!" at the top of their lungs).

    • 2 years ago
  • jh64487
  • macfan
  • betruelarue
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      betruelarue  

    • Go read your child a BOOK, take them to a park to play, not to a protest rally. This is mind-boggling, I am a parent and we as caregivers are supposed to share peace and love with our children, not rally hatred.

      WakeUpPeople, your username is just what I'm feeling almost everyday with stories like these. God help us all.

    • 2 years ago
  • WakeUpPeople
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      WakeUpPeople  

    • Well crap people... If socialized medicine = Hitler's nazi communism, then we have about 20 industrialized nations that we need to go to war with.

    • 2 years ago
  • Fulorange
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