re: #263 Scion9

This is practically apologetics. Pelosi didn’t say that they were comparing Dems to Nazis, she said that the protesters were carrying swastikas.

If I told you that black clad youths in combat boots were marching through the streets of Germany carrying swastikas it paints a picture. If I failed to mention that they were crossed out or shattered swastikas, and they were protesters against fascism, I’m being duplicitous.

Nancy Pelosi in the recorded clip is clearly inferring that people protesting were also hoisting swastikas, full stop. Comparing your opposition to Nazis or Hitler is tacky and tasteless but it also ridiculously common and as the representative for her particular district Pelosi is probably much more aware of that than any politician in the world.

First of all, I was responding to the posting of an article, not a clip. Now, if you have ANY knowledge of this pissing match at all, as seems reasonable to assume everyone does by now, one would know immediately that the protesters are comparing Obama to Hitler and that was the reason for the swastikas, just as we would know if we heard that a bunch of Islamist protesters against the ‘Zionist lobby”were carrying swastikas that their purpose was to smear their enemies with that comparison.