How is it appropriate? because it s the same process. obviously i don t think republicans are nazis, but they used the same means that goebbels used, which was to have a short, concise idea and repeat it over and over and over again. but you re essentially comparing them to nazis. no, i don t think i was. i certainly didn t intend to. when you do an open session like that on the floor, you speak off the cuff. but no, goebbels was the master of political propaganda. as evil as he was, he was the master of this. when people use it and use lies over and over and over again, whether it s killing grandma, whether it s government takeover of health care or any of those things, somebody has to stand up and say wait a minute. if you weren t trying to compare them to nazis, you wouldn t have mentioned nazis. you said their statements on health care are the same lies that nazis told. i didn t say nazis. you said goebbels, the chief propagandist for the nazis. you said the germans told lies about the jews and that led to the holocaust. you said they re doing the same thing that the nazis did. that s comparing them.
Is going to pull back from that. because it really gets in the way of he s not pulling back now. finally at the end of all the torturous dialogue, he said he was right but wouldn t say it again. he would admit what he said does not advance the cause of civility and he did admit that he didn t compare his republican colleagues to nazis, per se. but i understand the point he was trying to make. it s unfortunate how he made it. we can make the argument that republicans do try to dismiss the facts. i ve made that argument here on your show. but when you invoke nazis, it takes it to another level and gets in the way of the conversation. i think he, in retrospect, he can look back and say he s not going to use it again. dana, had a republican said this about the democrats, i think this would have been a huge uproar on liberal blogs. i haven t seen much on liberal
it s interesting, cornell, because when i tweeted about this, i got a couple tweets from viewers who i assume are liberals sort of critical of you know, justifying what he said because it was against republicans. it does seem like each side justifies ideal logs on either side will justify actions if it s from their party. well, you have extremes on both sides. and that s why you try to find the common middle ground where you can have dialogue. you know, after reading everything that the congressman cohen said, i don t have a lot that i disagree with what he s staying. i do disagree with comparing republicans to nazis. when you invoke that, you miss the conversation. when he s talking about how republicans dismiss, you know, the facts all the time, you know what? me taking my partisan hat off, part of the campaign tactic of whether you re republican, although i would say the
Appropriate analogy, and if you wanted to talk about some monster scientist, and you mentioned mingila, he was the monster scientist of maybe all-time. just as goebbels was the master political propagandist. i want to make it clear here, i don t think my of my colleagues are nazis. i didn t intend to suggest they were. but they re using the lie over and over is the same type of thing that goebbels used. the fact that he was a political propagandist can be viewed in different ways. but the fact of the matter is, you are comparing them to nazis. you re saying their tactics are the same as nazis. the national jewish democratic council said your comments are abusive holocaust rhetoric. they say that invoking the holocaust to make a political point is never acceptable. what if i compared a boxer to max shaley. he was a nazi. would that have been terrible? he was not a leader of the nazi party. yes, he was used by the nazis, and spoke out on behalf of the german government.
Because he s standing by what he said. it s interesting, cornell, because when i tweeted about this, i got a couple tweets from viewers who i assume are liberals sort of critical of you know, justifying what he said because it was against republicans. it does seem like each side justifies ideal logs on either side will justify actions if it s from their party. well, you have extremes on both sides. and that s why you try to find the common middle ground where you can have dialogue. you know, after reading everything that the congressman cohen said, i don t have a lot that i disagree with what he s staying. i do disagree with comparing republicans to nazis. when you invoke that, you miss the conversation. when he s talking about how republicans dismiss, you know, the facts all the time, you know what? me taking my partisan hat off, part of the campaign tactic of whether you re republican,