Yes folks, you read that right. Mr. “Douchebag of Liberty” compared Senator Reid’s offer on letting 4 of the re-submitted judicial nominees go to the floor and the President withdrawing the others to the holocaust.
This was originally caught last night by Box 13 but as there was no transcript available people passed on by. Well, the updated transcript was posted at 3:30am after the diary had scrolled off the list, so I’m resurrecting the discussion… because it is important for all of us concerned with the rightwings dangerous hyperbole.
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The statement in question was broadcast to the nation on CNN’s Capitol Gang Saturday night:
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SEN. BILL FRIST (R-TN), MAJORITY LEADER: I appreciate his offer for — for a Senate debate and votes on some of the president’s judicial nominees, but I just want to say once again that it is that principle of an up-or-down vote that is going to govern this side of the aisle.
SEN. ROBERT BYRD (D), WEST VIRGINIA: Chilling debate, freedom of speech in the United States Senate. Hah (ph). Hah (ph). Who wishes, Mr. Leader, to have that kind of a legacy to confront him, that he killed — helped to kill freedom of speech in the United States Senate?
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HUNT: Bob, why would Senator Frist refuse an offer to break the deadlock?
NOVAK: Because the whole system (INAUDIBLE) you’re not going to have — like going to a concentration camp and picking out which people go to the death chamber. You’re not going to let the Democrats do that, say, We’re going to — we’re going to confirm this person, we’re not going to confirm the other person. They’re going to — they’re going to say that this is not the way we’re going to do it. They’ve had all kinds of different offers of that kind.
Now, as a matter of fact, I believe that this — this constitutional option is going to work. I think it’s going to — they’re going to get the 50 votes that are needed. There’s no — it’s going to take a couple weeks, but there’s — there’s not going to be any Democratic — maybe it’ll take less than a couple weeks. Not going to be a Democratic alternative to it. And all they can do is decide how much they’re going to do to have a reprisal. So that’s why they’re putting out commercials on what a wonderful thing the filibuster is — is most famous in American history for killing — for — for establishing racist — racism and segregation in the South.
Okay, I really am at a loss for words… the offer is akin to picking which Jews go to the gas chamber? How sickening. How offensive. How much that belittles the deaths of innocent people at the hands of the most murderous (Stalin is a close second) regime in history. Is this what he really believes? Is this type of analogy condoned by CNN?
I don’t just want an apology, I want a resignation.
And that is before we get to the bumbling remark about rascim.
I’m too angry to offer any meaningful commentary here.
Action: contact CNN — http://edition.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5.html?26
Update [2005-5-16 4:21:3 by spiderleaf]: Another great idea is to contact the ADL, no way they would condone this analogy — http://www.adl.org/report_antisemitic/asirpt.asp
I think we should also contact any newspapers that syndicate his column, I’ll try and find some links and post those here as well.