Oh Those Rascally Liberals!

Earlier this week MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow asked her guest, Frank Schaeffer, “Do you think that calling the president a Nazi, calling the president Hitler is an implicit call for politically motivated violence?...Is there a coded message in these type of protests to incite violence against the President?”

Mr. Schaeffer responded by stating…

“Yes I do…I honestly think that there is a type of white, middle aged American male who has had a kind of mental collapse. Misinformed, right wing, white people. Not terribly bright people. There is a coded message here. And their coded message to their own lunatic fringe is very simple. And that is go for broke. When you start comparing a democratically elected President, who is not only our first black President, but a moderate progressive to Adolph Hitler you have arrived at a point where you are literally leaving a loaded gin on the table and saying the first person who comes along and wants to use this go ahead, be our guest! Now all these people, when something bad happens will raise their holy hands in horror and say of course we didn’t mean that. We were just talking about being American, because its American to protest. BS…they know exactly what’s out there..now we haev crossed a a line where hate and vitriol has gone to a point where it is anti-democratic and un-American. These people do not want America to succeed. They want to see our system go down rather than have a President, someone with different political views. And we have arrived at a point where enough is enough. These people are hate mongers, leaving a loaded gun on a table. They’re calling our President Hitler. They’re spreading this rhetoric. They’re spreading these lies. It isn’t a question of being bad journalists anymore, these are bad Americans and they are putting us all at risk.”

With this in mind, Paul Williams created a marvelous video essay using the audio of Maddow's program that day with an overlay of pictures and footage of demonstrations when George W. Bush was president. The result is an extraordinarily powerful demonstration of how hypocritical the current liberal media position is concerning this matter .

Now, I want all of you white, middle aged, mentally collapsed, holy handed, not terribly bright, anti-democratic, hate mongers to enjoy Paul Wliiams’ video below.

Peter J. Mahon