February 04, 2005
Garofalo: Republicans and Iraqis are Nazis?
(Hat tip: Kevin McCollough)
Republicans and Iraqis are Nazis?
That seems to be the only thing I can take away from this salute Janeane Garafalo gave on MSNBC the other night while saying:
"The inked fingers and the position of them, which is gonna be a 'Daily Show' photo already, of them signaling in this manner [does the Nazi salute], as if they have solidarity with the Iraqis who braved physical threats against their lives to vote as if somehow these inked-fingered Republicans have something to do with that."Janeane, they did have something to do with that: A Republican president and Republican-controlled Congress gave the orders to our military, which destroyed the Baath Party in Iraq, captured its leader, and killed his heirs.
After deposing Saddam, we have tried, and usually succeeded, in acting as a protective wedge between the Iraqi people and the terrorists that would plunge their country into chaos. We have put our soldiers lives on the line so that we could give Iraqis a shot at forming their own democracy.
The fact that Garafalo apparently links conservatives, American soldiers and the Iraqi people with the Nazis in her warped ideology is disgusting, but not particularly surprising for anyone who has heard her ratchet-up her increasingly shrill rhetoric over the past few years.
A Republican president directed American troops to dispose a despotic dictator who practiced mass murder upon his own people, and gave oppressed peoples a chance to form their own government, hardly an act that would have been supported by the National Socialists.
That she can equate the celebration of newfound freedoms with fascism is disturbing at best and possibly delusional at worst. Garafalo has become a perfect example of the "reality-based community" drifting further and further away from reality.
Posted by Confederate Yankee at February 4, 2005 01:00 PM
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