Stephen sends up the Fox “News” Channel pundits for their idiotic equating of recent heavy snowfall with “proof” that climate change isn’t happening.

FNC really must hold their viewers in the lowest intellectual regard.

Sadly, it takes a satirist to illustrate how pundits have framed Obama as both, a tyrant bent on the destruction of America, and an inept president who was unable to accomplish anything during his first year in office.

Of course, neither assessment is correct.

I came across this post on digg.com, where the most appropriate comment was made by schnikies79, who wrote, “If you compare any American politician, right or left, to Nazis. You’re a dumbass.”

From Leonard Pitts Jr. of McClatchy, 21 August 2009 post, via Freep.com:

I hope this column makes you sick.

See, we’ll be talking about Nazis, something many of us are doing lately. Indeed, just this week a fellow named Joseph e-mailed me about a caller he heard on a radio show. The man, vexed over health-care reform, likened President Obama to Adolf Hitler. Asked why, he said, “Hitler took over the car companies, then health care and then he killed the Jews.”

Said Joseph: “I almost swerved my vehicle off the road when I heard that.”

But the caller is hardly unique. Google “Obama + Nazis” and you get almost 7 million hits. Nor is the phenomenon new. Substitute President Bush’s name and you get nearly 2.8 million.

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Here’s a couple of video examples of this ignorant behavior:

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Maddow discusses the 2000 election debacle with The Nation’s Chris Hayes.

The next time I hear a talking head refer to this nonsense as the work of “concerned political activists…’  I’m coming through the EF’ing screen! At least with Rachel, my television will always be safe.

At some point, as I suggested in an August 6 Care2.com post, convincing a bunch of poorly informed, needlessly frightened citizens to advocate contrary to their own interests, as a political strategy (if you can call it that), eventually has to backfire.  How can it not?

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Weber Writes Obituary for the Republican Party

Posted 11 April 2009 @ The Huffington Post:

…The Republican Party is like a dying tyrant, mad with syphilis, ironically like that very Stalin they would accuse their enemies of associating with. How else to account for their desperation to resurrect the wraith of Joseph McCarthy; the hammy and baffling utterances from high level party officials like Boehner and McConnell; the blatant desire on their part to let the country fail out of sheer resentment; the wanton sedition of Conservative shit-stirrers ranging from the quasi Madame Defarge Michele Bachmann to the porcine, pill-popping porcine propagandist Rush Limbaugh?

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Of the 12 historical happenings outlined in the post, my personal favorite is the douchebaggary perpetrated by Reagan, HW Bush, & Rumsfeld:  clandestinely treating with Iran during the hostage crisis, contributing to Reagan’s electoral victory over Jimmy Carter.

From Time for Change’s Journal, 6 March 2009 post, @ DemocraticUnderground.com:

“If Bush and Cheney commit war crimes and everyone knows it, but does nothing, are they still crimes?” – Jonathan Turley

Jonathan Turley’s rhetorical question gets to the heart of one of the biggest problems with our country (and many other countries as well): We sanitize our history to the point where we can believe in and present a version to the world that is vastly at odds with reality. While that serves the purpose of making many Americans feel better about their country, and also serves the purpose of maintaining the status quo, it greatly impedes progress towards making ourselves a better country. You can’t learn from your mistakes as long as you don’t recognize them. And they will be repeated over and over again until we learn from them.

While Jonathan Turley and many others are focused right now on the crimes of the Bush administration, as well they should be, we should also recognize that this pattern is nothing new. The powers that be have been sanitizing U.S. history since its inception.

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