What bloody PLANET is this guy on??!!??

[Archae]

Maybe he needs to realize it's no longer 1956.

CNN's Jeffrey Lord Defends Trump's Refusal To Disavow KKK By Claiming It Is "A Function Of The Left"

Lord: "David Duke Is A Hardcore Leftist" And The KKK Is "A Function Of The Left"

JOHN BERMAN (HOST): We just heard it. The sound stopped right there. Jeffrey, you heard him say "how many times can I disavow David Duke?"

JEFFREY LORD: Margaret mentioned Ronald Reagan. When Ronald Reagan ran for governor of California, the press tried keep trying to get him to renounce the John Birch Society. And finally Reagan's answer was, "I am not endorsing them. They are endorsing me. I have nothing to do with them." He didn't play the game in other words. Donald Trump isn't playing the game, although he certainly denounced him. I mean, David Duke is a hardcore leftist. He's an anti-Semite. Yes, Margaret, the Ku Klux Klan is a function of the left. It was the military arm of the Democratic Party. Hello? Donald Trump's daughter and son-in-law are Jewish. David Duke is an anti-Semite, for heaven's sakes. This is ridiculous.

http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/02/29/cnns-jeffrey-lord-defends-trumps-refusal-to-dis/208874

[IcyPeas]

1. jeffrey lord is a rush limbaugh listener...

he has said this on cnn -- that he listens to rush every day...... that was all i needed to hear.

[Hortensis]

2. A populated one. Nazism is "left" also on that planet.

[HughBeaumont]

3. Well, yes, if severe historical revision is your thing . . .

. . . then by all means, stick that brownshirt on and sing "L'Internationale"!!

An entirely US-centric argument, spurred on by certain batty ideologues and infamous websites, claims that Adolf Hitler was not the far-right, anti-communist nationalist that everyone else remembers him to be, but rather an egalitarian socialist. Much like the Discovery Institute and their assault on the theory of evolution, this attempts to evoke the association fallacy on anyone who practices left-wing politics, and by that standard, anyone who slightly leans to the left is an adherent of fascism.

The fact that we even need to write this should tell you something about these people, but why not take a hack at it? While the Nazis did oppose capitalism as an "international" ideology out to destroy the German nation, Hitler was not opposed to private enterprise within a national "sandbox." Furthermore, in order to get to power, he allied with people whose economic views were much more pro-business, distancing himself from alte kaempfer like Gottfried Feder and bringing people such as Hjalmar Schacht into his circle.

For this argument to be even close to being solvent (fans of Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, we're looking at you), good chunks of history need to be thrown out the window:

1.That the 96-member Social Democratic Party of Germany was Hitler's main opposition in the Reichstag, and the only political party that attempted to halt the laws that established him as dictator and brought down the Weimar Republic. In fact, all of the ideological predecessors of today's conservative and classically liberal parties voted unanimously for the law, while the SPD voted unanimously against despite the presence of SA 'guards' in the building.[2][3]

2.That the first political groups targeted during the Nazi ascendancy were pacifists, trade unions and communists;[4][5] and

3.That the Strasserites, the only strand of Nazism that could be referred to as left-wing (ie. pro-working class in nature), were all killed off (with a handful of conservative dissidents) in what we all know as the Night of the Long Knives.

We're waiting.

[Rex]

4. He knows what he is doing. Repeat a lie enough times and people start to believe it.

However he must know the KKK is a hardcore RWing establishment that has roots in the GOP. This is just more out and out lying on air, because he knows most of the people that listen to him are brain dead zombies that never could think for themselves.