Liberals are being commie fascists by calling people liars

[DonViejo]

Aggrieved conservatives agree that name-calling is totalitarian. Look who's talking! VIDEO

BY ALEX PAREENE

Daniel Henninger has a very, very good column in the Wall Street Journal today that can be summed up thusly: “Do you know who else called people liars?”

The Obama campaign’s resurrection of “liar” as a political tool is odious because it has such a repellent pedigree. It dates to the sleazy world of fascist and totalitarian propaganda in the 1930s. It was part of the milieu of stooges, show trials and dupes. These were people willing to say anything to defeat their opposition. Denouncing people as liars was at the center of it. The idea was never to elevate political debate but to debauch it.

Saying Mitt Romney lies simply because he frequently says things that aren’t true is precisely the same thing as fascist propaganda. Shame on you, Barack Obama. (For the record, calling people “liars” was not actually at “the center” of the Stalinist show trials. They actually involved much more serious phony allegations! Stalin did not say, “Bukharin intentionally misrepresented my healthcare policy.” He said “Bukharin conspired to assassinate Lenin and hand half of Russia over to our enemies.”)

Let’s go back to the first paragraph of this column, actually, because while “Obama is the same as Hitler-Stalin” is the sexy pull quote, the column is entertainingly divorced from reality from word one:

MORE:
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/11/liberals_are_being_commie_fascists_by_calling_people_liars/

[notadmblnd]

1. No, they're pointing out the truth.

[patrice]

2. Apparently, saying something makes it so ONLY when "conservatives" say it does & it is impossible

for anything anyone else ever says to be true.

I know . . .
, but that IS what's going on.

[Avalux]

3. "These people will say anything to defeat the opposition".

We all know Republicans do this well, project what they themselves do onto the opposition. It's maddening, and it's dystopian, and unfortunately, it can be very effective with low information voters.

[Deep13]

4. what a pack of lies! nt