Braun defends Hitler comments

[RandySF]

Chicago - Chicago mayoral candidate Carol Moseley Braun had some explaining to do this weekend after another apparent gaffe regarding one of her opponents.

During a rally with Princeton Professor Cornel West, Braun attempted to play off of a joke from the Mel Brooks comedy The Producers. In it, there's a character who loved Adolf Hitler because he believed Hitler was kind and gentle.

Braun said that Emanuel -- who is Jewish -- was also trying to portray himself as kind and gentle.

“I was not comparing him to Adolf Hitler; print that,” Moseley Braun said. “I was trying to say...the kind, gentle concern for the public that is being portrayed in these ads does not square with the record.”


http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/elections/carol-moseley-braun-comments-rahm-emanuel-producers-20110214

[Hannah Bell]

1. rahm "fuck the unions" emanuel probably has something to do with the misleading headline.

[RandySF]

2. But Braun still made the comment

Just like Braun accused another opponent of using crack. There are even some progressives that are just not worth defending.

[lob1]

3. No, no. It was Rahm "STFU liberals" Emmanual that did it.

[Robb]

4. Braun's 20+ points down on Emanuel.

Hard to gaffe your way that far.

[Renew Deal]

5. She knew what she was doing

It's a cheap shot.

“I was not comparing him to Adolf Hitler; print that,” Moseley Braun