January 05, 2004

ADL Says Hitler Ad Should Never Have Appeared on MoveOn.org

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today said it was deeply troubled that MoveOn.org had allowed an outrageous and highly offensive political ad that directly compared President George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler to be posted on its Web site.

Abraham H. Foxman, ADL national director and author of "Never Again: The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism," issued the following statement:

"It is shocking that a mainstream political group like MoveOn.org not only allowed this vile and outrageous comparison of the American President to Adolf Hitler to be entered into its "Bush in 30 Seconds" contest in the first place, but that they even went so far as to make it available to the public on the Internet. Those responsible for this contest at MoveOn.org should have immediately identified this advertisement as one going far beyond legitimate criticism and rejected it out of hand. Instead, they made an irresponsible decision that has given legitimacy to the exploitative manipulation of images in a campaign season.

"MoveOn.org clearly would not have accepted a pornographic ad as legitimate criticism of a candidate. Why did they think that images of Hitler, the Nazi whose evil regime was responsible for the slaughter of millions of people during the Holocaust, was a fitting and credible expression of criticism of President Bush and his policies? Their lack of discretion cheapens the level of political discourse in America, and their comments explaining it were hardly comforting."

The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is the world's leading organization fighting anti-Semitism through programs and services that counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry.

SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER CRITICIZES MOVEON.ORG FOR POSTING AD COMPARING BUSH TO HITLER

The Simon Wiesenthal Center sharply criticized MoveOn.org for accepting and posting an ad comparing President George Bush to Adolf Hitler.

“Politics and preparing for a presidential election is one thing, but comparing the Bush Administration’s fight against Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein with the policies of Adolf Hitler is shameful and beyond the pale and has no place in the legitimate discourse of American politics,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier, the Center’s dean and founder.

“This ad is not about Democrats or Republicans - it is about lies and a distortion of history,” he added.

MoveOn.org was right to pull the ad but they should apologize for not using better judgment in posting it in the first place,” Hier concluded.

To read more and view ad, go to: Drudge Report .

The Wiesenthal Center is one of the largest international Jewish human rights organizations with over 400,000 member families in the United States. It is an NGO at international agencies including the United Nations, UNESCO, the OSCE, and the Council of Europe.

While the ADL's Mr. Foxman may be shocked, I'm sorry to say that I am not: the Left has been saying that "Bush is Hitler" for at least 2 years. Now, they've only made their sentiments more overt, as well as visual and aural.
If you don't have the stomach to watch the ad (Drudge has the link), as I didn't, all you need to know is that they've put text of what they think about the Bush Administration over the film and audio of one of Hitler's typical "Ein Volke, Ein Reich, Ein Welt" rants from the WWII years.
(And when is the Left/Communism/Marxism stronger than when they're "fighting Fascism?" So it's important to them to demonize our President accordingly.)
And while I'd love to think that Rabbi Meir is right and that the Leftists over at MoveOn.org will realize how shameful their hate-filled rhetoric is, but I doubt that they will.
Their language and tone has been hateful, shameful, revolting and shameless at least since President Bush's election in November 2000, but clearly, given this "ad," they aren't through, at least in their own minds.
But in my mind, put it fork in them 'cuz they're long done.
And as long as we're on the subject of Hitler, Howard Dean's angry ravings sound a lot more like Old Adolph...!
Thank God for men like Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and George Washington, that we'll never have a "reich" here or a "soviet" either; we have a constitutional, democratic republic.
What the Liberal Lying Left is revealing about themselves is not only their utter tastelessness and crudity, but most of all, their complete ignorance.
To make this odious comparison between President Bush, one of our greatest Presidents since the founding of this nation, and the Butcher of Berlin--Hitler--who founded National Socialism, started WWII, and had 12 million people murdered of which 6 million were Jews, shows a profound ignorance both of the history of the Third Reich and of Hitler's "reign" as Fuhrer and of our own US History and what occupying the Oval Office was meant to be in the eyes of the Founding Fathers and what it does mean when a patriot, statesman and true leader like President Bush holds that office.
Even Saddam Hussein with his mass graves and his wars with Iran, Kuwait and Israel could only envy Hitler's record, while Joseph Stalin (whom the Left never holds up for opprobrium, still holds the title with about 30 million dead in his name.