" While Democrats were touting AARP's endorsement...

[jenmito]

..via Matthew Yglesias, this image of Holocaust victims was on display at today's "House Call" protest organized by Michele Bachmann and the Republican House Leadership:



Take a closer look:



Keep in mind that this wasn't some Glenn Beck-organized 9/12 stunt. This was an event staged by the House Republican leadership -- actual elected officials, members of the U.S. government.

Other Republican members of Congress were on stage, too: Minority Leader John Boehner (OH), Minority Whip Eric Cantor (VA), Roy Blunt (MO), Jeb Hensarling (TX), Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA), Michele Bachmann (MN) -- who was a key organizer of the event -- Virginia Foxx (NC), Ginny Brown-Waite (FL), Jean Schmidt (OH), Sue Myrick (NC), and many more.

If Republicans wonder why most Americans view them as part of the fringe extreme, they need not look beyond this event. While Democrats were touting the endorsement of AARP, Michele Bachmann and the House leadership were rallying amidst signs like this, shoulder to shoulder with 2,000 teabaggers."

Update: The AMA also endorsed the House bill today.

http://www.dailykos.com/

Bolding by ME.

[derby378]

1. More like the AMA damned the bill with faint praise

They're still opposed to any form of public option - but since the one in the House bill is so watered-down that most Americans can't even access it, they probably decided not to pick a fight.

[jenmito]

4. You're missing the point of my thread.

It's about the crazy RWers in CONGRESS.

[AspenRose]

2. That's disgusting.

Some prominent Jewish organizations need to get REALLY vocal, really soon. I'll join my voice with theirs.

And they BETTER NOT pull that "well those were liberal plants at the rally with those signs" shit.

[jenmito]

6. Eric Cantor is Jewish but he spoke to that crowd...

didn't seem to bother him!

[AspenRose]

8. It's mind-numbing.

He needs a swift kick in the ass.

Actually I hope Jon Stewart rips him a new one.

[euphoria12leo]

40. Cantor was asked by the Jewish community

to take a stand against this type of behavior from the crazies. I guess he values the support of the teabaggers more.
He has no conscious.


:puke:

[FrenchieCat]

3. That is really sad that they should use these images in this way.....

Too bad the media won't report this in the way that it should,
if we lived in a society where the Press wasn't bought and paid for
by the same folks who endorse this kind of imagery to be used
no matter that the cause being protested has nothing to do with
the tragic events that occurred and evidenced by this photo.

This is an outrage......
Not only for those who survived as well as those who perished under the butchery of Hitler,
but to all of us!

This should not stand without consequences!

[jenmito]

5. At least Andrea Mitchell asked Eric Cantor if he's comfortable with the teabaggers' signs...

showing pics of the Holocaust, saying, "Get the red out of the White House," and much worse. Cantor said he doesn't approve personal attacks, but the "tens of thousands of protestors" outside the WH prove the people don't want "Obama/Pelosicare" healthcare reform.

[AspenRose]

7. He ought to be ashamed.

Seriously.

I don't know who's worse, him or Michael Steele.

Disgusting.

[jenmito]

9. I don't think we have to choose who's worse...

they're BOTH sell-outs.

[MNDemNY]

18. "tens of thousands" can that puke count past 10?

Mitchell let that blatant lie go right by.

[jenmito]

20. The media anchors ALWAYS let the lies go right by. Just like when

a teabagger was talking to Chris Matthews and said "about 2 million people" protested in DC on 9/12.

[jillan]

37. She gave him a couple of chances to condemn this and he wouldn't do it.

Shame.

[jenmito]

42. Yup. I hope that would be reported wide and far.

This needs to get out.

[Cha]

15. I would think the ADL would have

something to say about this stupid OUTRAGE.

[depakid]

10. A veritable nutter's gallery on display...

[FightingIrish]

11. Disgusting

This has to be a new low in Republican politics. I hope it gets the attention of misguided conservatives who thought this party stood for something.

[jenmito]

12. They need to be sanctioned on the House floor!

What they're doing and the people they're rallying with are disgusting.

[jonnyblitz]

13. whoa, that is the most messed up thing i have seen in awhile. nt

[livetohike]

14. This is beyond sickening and for Eric Cantor to sanction this

ridiculous protest.....He needs to lose his seat next time around. I hope the DNC is working on this.

[jenmito]

17. I don't know how the DNC can make Cantor lose his seat...

other than putting up tons of ads in his state/district showing him speaking while panning to the disgusting signs like the one in my OP.

[Beaverhausen]

16. I don't think this was staged by the rep leadership. I say the lobbyists for insurance and pharma...

...did it.

[Kdillard]

19. Disgusting and I bet that few if any in the media call these psychos out for it.

[Jennicut]

21. Totally horrific. And great way to make the Jewish voters turn to Obama

even more. Obama got the majority of Jewish voters in 2008. Most Jews consider the holocaust something that is not brought up in a casual way. I bet most would be disgusted and turned off from Rethugs.

[jenmito]

23. The media has to point this out for anyone but us to see it and be outraged at it.

I wrote to David Shuster asking him to cover this. I hope he does.

[Jennicut]

27. Good idea! I need to send an email too.

Shuster is one of the better ones so hopefully he will.

[jenmito]

31. I sent him a direct message via twitter...

he has replied to me about 3 times in the past. He just mentioned it!

[Jennicut]

33. See? You rock!

[jenmito]

34. Thanks, fellow Jen!

Of course, he was probably going to cover it anyway...

[rasputin1952]

30. I grew up with Surviors in my neighborhood in NYC when I

was a kid. I can recall going to the Candy Store and seeing the tattooed arms of thin men making change. I knew some of these people and as we grew older, they would start to speak about what they had gone through...not what they had seen, but actually gone through. Synagogues were filled with Survivors and their children; I'm not Jewish, but I learned to respect their Sabbath.

Many years ago, my father was speaking w/the next door neighbor, (my dad was a lawyer and like w/doc's, people want some free advice...;) ). Anyway, I found out later that our neighbor survived Dachau and was the last of his line left, or so he thought...he was reunited with his wife, who was scheduled to go the the Gas Chamber the same day that one of the other camps was suddenly evacuated by the Germans and they were left alone, standing there, naked in the rain...when my dad's jeep found them...she was among them. He spoke of it only once...but that was enough.

I stand up and shout to the world...NEVER AGAIN!

[Jennicut]

35. I can only imagine how they could survive that and then rebuild their lives too.

It seems so incredibly disgusting to basically spit on what these people went through and use it for their own horrible propaganda.
I am not Jewish either but just impacted by the films and things we talked about in school. I grew up in the 80's and even by then, the Holocaust was mentioned and taught to us as something sacred and something we wanted to prevent happening again. My family is actually very German and very Italian but most of them were in America by WW II and totally against the Nazis.

[rasputin1952]

38. I do recall they were very quiet...

reflective, occasionally jumpy, but never threatening. They all seemed small to me as well...a kind of "permanent thinness" if that is possible; the kids all grew up like regular NY'ers born in the late 40's early 50's.

I honestly believe a lot of them made it through just by faith alone. Somehow, they found the strength to go on, just stay alive.

Eisenhower actually gave orders to the US Army Signal Corps to record all they could. Initially, it was thought "best" to keep this as quiet as possible to avoid reprisals against German nationals. Ike was smart about what he did next, he just overrode everyone else and ordered the Sig Corps to film. Later, he told people that he believed this would happen again if the horror were not recorded, people would say, "that could never have happened"...the Deniers have proven he was right.

[Jennicut]

39. Ike, the last good Republican. We have it recorded and there are still deniers.

Unbelievable.

[rasputin1952]

22. Nothing is sacred to these miserable thugs...

Monsters like this don't have any decency at all about them.

For one thing, in the top pic, I saw at least 4 people either on or pretty close to being on Medicare...I have to wonder if they think they hit 65, they are suddenly shipped off to some Coal Fired Electrical Plant here in Nebraska...their bodies used to light the Midwest on cool Autumn evenings.

For another...no one seems to understand the insurance industry at all, or how the whole thing works. Essentially, it is a group of many that have pooled their resources to help a relatively few, hence profit is made.

The whole "bureaucrat" issue is moot as well. Right this minute, people with no medical training are denying claims...from private industry, (it's about money, not care; Insurance Co's have more Accountants than anything else).

Finally...if one is paying $400/month today, their employer is paying $500/mo for the care they get, if both the employer and worker could save, say $150/mo for an option that is basically government run, but no care would be denied because of pre-existing conditions or non-essential cosmetics; they could have the same health provider they have now, same level of care...but a savings that totals out to $300, it works out well for everyone.

[jenmito]

24. Great points!

Also, the stupid Repub. congressmen there were telling the crowd they're trying to introduce an amendment to make members of congress use the public option. They don't get it at ALL!

[rasputin1952]

32. They are thugs...mindless, heartless thugs...

:grr:

[Bluenorthwest]

25. Just disgusting beyond words

Reprehensible. This is not a mere invocation of the events, this is the actual use of the dead, the co-option of images of murdered corpses as a tool of their personal agendas. Carried through the streets as if each body were nothing but a letter in some phrase of partisan propaganda.

[high density]

26. This ridiculous shit is front page huge news over at "liberal" MSNBC.com

AARP/AMA endorsement is weaved into the article, but not until halfway into it. What a joke.

[Windy]

28. I'd like to send them to Dauchau! I've been there. The tragedy

should not be used as propaganda to deny lifesaving insurance coverage to the uninsured. I am totally and utterly disgusted with the ignorance of these idiots. They probably don't know that Dauchau was the place that people like them, nazisesque narrowminded corporatists, put outspoken dissenters who gave a shit about the people and worked to erradicate the crazed far right Nazi party out of Germany!

Someone needs to put a stop to this madness.

[ChiciB1]

48. Eww.. I Saw Dachau Too! I Was Quite Young, But Have NEVER-EVER Forgotten

walking through the shower rooms and then into the ovens! And it seems that I saw many, many graves somewhere outside. I was only 10, but I remember those rooms very well!

Some things stick with you and NEVER go away!!

[Windy]

29. I'd like to send them to Dauchau! I've been there. The tragedy

should not be used as propaganda to deny lifesaving insurance coverage to the uninsured. I am totally and utterly disgusted with the ignorance of these idiots. They probably don't know that Dauchau was the place that people like them, nazisesque narrowminded corporatists, put outspoken dissenters who gave a shit about the people and worked to erradicate the crazed far right Nazi party out of Germany!

Someone needs to put a stop to this madness.

[jillan]

36. I hope Keith, Rachel, Ed, Tweety ALL give this more media attention than the protestors themselves.

Andrea Mitchell was visibly shaken by this.
Show these teabaggers for who they really are.

Unbelievably disgusting and lower than the scum that grows in sewers.

[jenmito]

41. David Shuster was covering it. Now there's breaking news about gunmen

in military uniforms killing people in Ft. Hood.

[rasputin1952]

43. Olbermann kicked off with this story! The Ft Hood shootings are #3...

did a great job on both Bachmann and Boehner...:D

Did anyone in Congress take American History in HS? I think I had read both the Declaration Of Independence and the Constitution by the middle of the 5th Grade in the NYC Public School System...waaaaayyyy back. Even then, I knew the difference between the two Documents. Today, I have a copy of the DoI and First 12, (whittled down to 10), Amendments. I can move my eyes 3 degrees up, and there they are...had them for years now. Boehner can't even glance down and realize that he's reading fro the DoI.

That pic was shown at least 3x on Countdown, close up and personal.

[jenmito]

44. I just saw that.

Good for Keith. And David Schuster tweeted:

DavidShuster

http://bit.ly/3cRfQX some of us had relatives who were in the piles. Do these wingers have ANY decency?

and this:

DavidShuster

We will talk about the Bachmann led protests tomorrow. http://bit.ly/3cRfQX Against HCR? fine. But invoking Nazism is beyond the pale.

[rasputin1952]

45. 9-11 doesn't stir them up any more, they used it so many times...

it went stale. Their notion of rationality...Ramp It Up! Let's take it to the Holocaust!

Thugs..mere thugs...:grr:

[jenmito]

49. Exactly...

I HOPE they're finally seen as going too far.

[RepublicanElephant]

46. Nazi-Democrat Analogies Leaves Jewish Groups Alarmed

(a huffpost from 3 weeks ago by sam stein)

According to Harris, there have been roughly 50 instances in the past few months where either a media personality or politician manufactured a Nazi analogy or Holocaust reference to push a point.

The list includes some Democrats, notably Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) who apologized to the ADL for describing the health care situation as a "holocaust in America." And, below the surface, it has been exacerbated by followers of Lyndon LaRouche, who routinely pass out pamphlets comparing President Obama to Hitler.

But the vast majority of instances, as a review of recent of recent news clips shows, have been offered by Republican or conservative figures targeting the president or Democrats.

For groups like ADL and NJDC, however, the offense doesn't always come when a group or individual makes the direct Nazi comparison but rather when groups or individuals don't speak out against someone else making it. Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), for instance, did not push back against a town hall questioner who said that Obama like Hitler believed in a "superior race" (in the president's case: Congress). Few representatives, moreover, have spoken out against the proliferation of swastikas at health care town halls or tea party protests.

"We have heard nothing from leading Republicans," said Harris. "We hear nothing from the Republican Jewish Coalition. We hear nothing from candidates. We hear nothing from Eric Cantor" - the lone Jewish Republican in the House of Representatives.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/14/nazi-analogies-directed-a_n_320842.html

[ChiciB1]

47. Do These People Get ALL The Attention Because They Are KOOKS OR

do they get ALL this attention because the media wants them to LOOK like KOOKS??

I'm truly conflicted by this because they seem to get ALL the attention ALL the time! While those of us here want HCR, we beat our heads against an imaginary wall and site what are seemingly true facts, for the most part and simply get ignored!

I KNOW, they LOST 23, but they have REAL Representatives standing WITH them, and even with all of our donations to Michele Bachman's opponent she STILL got elected!

Is UP down and DOWN up?? Is the media actually HELPING them? Every time they hold some sort of "get-together" the cameras are there rolling. Democrats can pull together hundreds of thousands of people in a march and it "barely" makes a few seconds on the TV! I recall going to marches and waiting anxiously to see that "we" wanted our voices heard, and even C-Span didn't give it more than perhaps TWO MINUTES!

Are we behind the curve, or should we mount something against them? I mean not sarcasm here, I'm just wondering.

I'm going for a walk because tonight it's actually gotten cool down here in Florida and maybe I can re-charge my engines! My dogs await, but I still wonder!!!