During the Tea Party rallies and Townhall protests, the media had a field-day reporting on several posters comparing Obama to Hitler.
Here’s Nancy Pelosi saying that the Townhall protesters carried Swastikas.
And here’s CNN reporter Susan Roesgen outraged at someone calling President Obama a fascist, while she makes no comment about a mask of President Bush with a Hitler mustache.
That seems to be the typical pattern among most liberals when it comes to allusions about Hitler and Nazis. If someone compares Obama to a Nazi, it’s racist, unfair, and the product of blind wing-nut rage.
But when Bush was compared to Hitler, it got little to no coverage. At least that’s what happened during the eight years of the Bush administration, when countless protesters compared Bush to Hitler and Nazis. Below are just a few posters, and many more can be found here and here:
While these comparisons are nothing new, they have not been given the publicity that the comparatively few Obama-Hitler allusions have.
In fact, many of those Obama-Hitler allusions (especially one highly circulated by the media), have been made by left wing Lyndon LaRouche supporters. Here is an article connecting LaRouche to the Obama-Hitler comparison.
These Hitler and Nazi comparisons have been going on for many years now, but only now are people outraged by them. I guess if a conservative does it, that’s racist. But when a liberal does it, that’s an exercise of freedom of speech.
Obama isn’t Hitler and Bush isn’t Hitler; the absurdity of these comparisons is evident and obvious. But so is the double standard of the mainstream media. Associations like that shouldn’t be made in the first place, but when liberals themselves have and still do make Hitler comparisons, feigning outrage just to portray the opposition as crazy is unfair.
