GOP Tweets clip of Hitler praising Pelosi

[sabra]

Source: Politico

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On Tuesday morning, as the Senate Finance Committee prepared to vote on the Baucus bill, someone at the NRCC posted a bizarre Tweet linking to an altered three-minute section of the 2004 Hitler biopic "Der Untergang" from the conservative site Moonbattery -- with a voice-over of the The Fuhrer ranting about how only Nancy Pelosi shares his vision of health care reform.

The Tweet: "Funny Video: Moonbattery: Hitler Reacts to ObamaCare Maneuvers"

...

"What the hell are the Democrats doing?" Hitler screams. "At least I have Pelosi on my side. What's wrong with them?... I socialized medicine overnight and everything's going great... Like Pelosi, I don't give a s**t about the American people."

An NRCC spokesman didn't immediately respond to a call for comment.

UPDATE: "House Republicans have gone way too far," said Jennifer Crider, spokewoman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "The NRCC's despicable promotion of a video comparing Nancy Pelosi's effort to reform health care to America to Adolf Hitler's extermination of millions is a shocking new low that must be condemned. Republican Leader John Boehner should order NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions to immediately remove this vile Tweet and apologize."

UPDATE: NRCC spokesman John Randall says they have pulled down the Tweet and offered a mea culpa:

"We saw the video this morning and thought, like other parodies, that it was funny," Randall just told me. "In 20-20 hindsight, we realized it was in poor taste and pulled it down... I don't want anyone to think we're comparing Democrats to Nazis and to Hitler."

Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/1009/GOP_Tweets_clip_of_Hitler_praising_Pelosi.html#

[ck4829]

1. "I don't want anyone to think we're comparing". Classic non-apology apology.

[movonne]

4. That is exactly what they wanted people to think...

[louis-t]

2. Wait, you laughed at it, then thought it was in bad taste?

Only when someone complained? You piece of shit. "We don't want anyone to think we're comparing Obama to Hitler." You do it EVERY FUCKING DAY YOU USELESS PIECE OF GARBAGE!!!

[movonne]

3. This shit has got to stop...NOW!!!

[Mz Pip]

5. Funny????

Hitler is now used in comedy?

There is nothing Hitler did that is worthy of parody.

[AlbertCat]

8. Hitler is now used in comedy?

They did it in "The Producers".

Of course they weren't comparing Congress leaders to him.


Who did they think they were comparing her to? Charlie Chaplin?

[Mz Pip]

10. Randall

is no Mel Brooks. Not even close.

[Devil_Fish]

21. Hitler did design the VW Bettle on a napkin... I see parodys of that design every day.

[Cass]

6. So Randall thinks it was funny? That tells us an awful lot about this guy

and none of it good, either. Randall and whoever else thought this was funny are pea-brained, heartless, cruel jerks.

[thelordofhell]

7. Just look up "Hitler reacts" in YouTube and you get tons of these "parodies"

But then again, I don't think the DCCC ever tweeted the "Hitler reacts to Sarah Palin stepping down" clip.......I know DU posted it though.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

11. trust the 'trendy' GOP to hit on an internet meme three years old

[thelordofhell]

19. Next up for the NRCC.......Play Obama out, Keyboard Cat!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J---aiyznGQ

[acsmith]

20. is this you one you mean

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IzNPEGWNos&feature=related

[Bertha Venation]

9. BULLSHIT!

"I don't want anyone to think we're comparing Democrats to Nazis and to Hitler."

BULLSHIT! Who's running around with those doctored photos of Obama with the Hitler moustache?

[high density]

12. Der Untergang remixes... didn't those get old a year ago?

What next, a Rickroll?

[acsmith]

13. lighten up

its pretty funny.

[debannbull]

14. the holocaust is "pretty funny"?

[acsmith]

16. no

did i say that?

[cali]

15. go the fuck away, you vile little troll.

[acsmith]

17. sorry, I forgot one is only allowed to laugh at politicians on the "right" of the spectrum

perhaps this can make up for my previous transgressions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzRZreAXbJY

[acsmith]

18. "How much crack must she be smoking to come up with a name like...

...Trig"

brilliant!