{"id":1066,"date":"2007-07-17T05:08:27","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T10:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2011-09-01T07:41:18","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T12:41:18","slug":"repeat-a-big-lie-often-enough-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1066","title":{"rendered":"Repeat a Big Lie Often Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\/2007\/07\/09\/shocking-ellsion-compares-911-to-burning-of-reichstag-building\/\">Rep. Ellison&#8217;s &#8220;Reichstag Fire&#8221;<\/a> smear, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\/2007\/07\/16\/mde-from-the-archives-dfls-use-of-hitlernazi-comparisons-in-minnesota\/#comment-103168\">Brodkorb notes<\/a> that making Nazi analogies &#8211; or even calling them &#8220;Nazis&#8221; &#8211; is becoming pretty standard practice among DFLers.<\/p>\n<p>He has a list:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>The Minnesota DFL distributed &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\/2004\/09\/09\/dfl-blaims-volunteer-for-distributing-bumper-stickers-comparing-president-bush-to-hitler-3\/\"><font color=\"#d10c15\">Bush\/Cheney \u2014 Most hated world leaders since Hitler<\/font><\/a>&#8221; bumper stickers in 2004.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The SD 42 DFL website once called the SD 42 Republicans &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\/2005\/01\/04\/alert-sd-42-dfl-calls-gop-goebbelesque\/\"><font color=\"#d10c15\">Goebbelesque<\/font><\/a>&#8221; and contained the following message: &#8220;They&#8217;re so SENSITIVE to being called Nazis, but if the boot fits . . .&#8221; The Nazi reference <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\/2005\/01\/04\/update-sd-42-dfl-calls-gop-goebbelesque\/\"><font color=\"#d10c15\">was later removed<\/font><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Former State Senator Steve Kelley, the DFL-endorsed candidate for attorney general in 2006, once &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\/2005\/06\/03\/kelley-compared-pledge-of-allegiance-requirements-to-nazi-germany\/\"><font color=\"#d10c15\">compared a Pledge of Allegiance requirement to the rituals of Nazi Germany.<\/font><\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Former State Senator Becky Lourey, a DFL candidate for governor in 2006, compared <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\/2006\/03\/23\/domagate-lourey-compares-domagate-to-nazis-persecution-of-jews\/\"><font color=\"#d10c15\">DOMAgate to the Nazi persecution of Jews<\/font><\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This, in particular &#8211; Lourey comparing legal wrangling over the legal definition of marriage to loading gays into boxcars and pushing them into the gas chambers &#8211; was sign of a deeper pathology.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Coleen Rowley&#8217;s campaign blog published a picture of Congressman John Kline, a decorated U.S. Marine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\/2006\/02\/21\/rowley-it-was-a-nazi-uniform\/\"><font color=\"#d10c15\">dressed in a Nazi uniform<\/font><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Civility for we, but not for ye, apparently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of Rep. Ellison&#8217;s &#8220;Reichstag Fire&#8221; smear, Brodkorb notes that making Nazi analogies &#8211; or even calling them &#8220;Nazis&#8221; &#8211; is becoming pretty standard practice among DFLers. He has a list: The Minnesota DFL distributed &#8220;Bush\/Cheney \u2014 Most hated world leaders since Hitler&#8221; bumper stickers in 2004. 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