Tea-baggers attack Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel

[givemebackmycountry]

"Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel criticized a Tea-bagger protester in Washington, DC this week who held up a sign showing dead bodies from the Dachau concentration camp stacked in a pile, and compared this to the Democrats' health care reform plan.
Here are a few of the Tea-baggers' responses to Weisel, posted on Politico:

Rothschilds nothing!
Everyone knows that Obama is George Soros sock puppet.
Wasn't Soros Jewish once upon a time?
May the Schwartz be with you.
The jews need to clam up and accept the fact that they are in a Chritian country.
This hollowcost thing is totally overblown by the jewish.
Eli Wiesel should just go back to Indonesia.
I don't see him condemnig the terrorist shooter at Fort Hood.
Elie is a whiner.
She should stop her whining.
You didn't not complane when the libs were calling Bush Hitler.

http://www.americablog.com/2009/11/teabaggers-attack-holocaust-survivor.html

Well, this about does it for me.
I'm thinking that this may well be one of the most repulsive things I've ever read before.

I've read NIGHT by Elie Wiesel.
I've seen the documentary "Night and Fog" by Alain Resnais which was made in 1955 the year I was born, and is a searing 35 minute indictment of mans inhumanity to man.

To think that the FUCKING HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER STOOD IN FRONT OF A SIGN that showed holocaust images to denounce health-care in this country...
John Boehner, may you burn in hell forever.
You are truly a piece of disease ridden scum you motherfucker.

THIS is what YOU and Virginia Foxx and Michelle Bachman and Glen Beck and Lou Dobbs and FOX News have spawned.
You are truly evil you bastards.

I know that some will say, why did you post this here GMBMC?
I'll tell you why.
Because people like this are your neighbors, your co-workers, your family members even.
I hate to say this, but I am REALLY starting to hate this fucking country.
I got no country to get back so you know what?
KEEP IT.

And by the way, POLITICO for posting this kind of hate filled swill on your so called message board?
Fuck you too.

[Barack_America]

1. Wow. They don't even know Wiesel is a man.

[Kdillard]

2. Yep they wallow in ignorance.

[HughMoran]

3. that stuck out, didn't it

My daughter is reading one of his books for school - she says it's very depressing.

[Barack_America]

6. Freepers and teabaggers, for all of their Nazi knowledge and references...

...clearly have not read about it from the Jewish perspective.

That much is clear.

[lolly]

65. Jews don't much figure into it for them

I'm not kidding. Fundie wingnut Christians see THEMSELVES as the "real" victims of the Holocaust.

They have rewritten history to see Nazis as Athiests (and Socialists to boot) who acted out of hatred for religious people.

Ergo, the real story of the Holocaust was Athiests vs. Religious People--and "Religious" is all but a synonym for "Christian."

I am absolutely not kidding. I have had students argue these points in their papers. Jews were peripheral to the whole thing.

[Leo The Cleo]

69. You ain't kidding!

I'd heard some kids saying things like that in undergrad. It blew my mind. But I guess when you find a save haven in the right, it becomes easy to say these things and get away with them. After all, the right fosters these things and eggs them on. Yikes!

[caseymoz]

80. The irony being that Hitler was not a Christian.

He was influenced by Nietzsche as a young man, and he applied Nietzsche to politics, but he was pretty solidly Christian when took control of Germany. Franco and Mussolini were as well.

[Ken Burch]

88. I'm fairly sure he was raised Catholic

And, while I don't have time to dig out the quotes right now, I've seen evidence that Hitler argued that he was "defending Christian civilization" by doing what he did.

[FunkyLeprechaun]

50. Night and Dawn

Had quite a profound effect on me. They should be required readings for any literature about the Holocaust. I also met Elie at a lecture and later he was one of my professors. He is one of the kindest men I've met.

[OhioBlue]

16. that struck me too - dumb asses. n/t

[vaberella]

36. Well that's America for you...they can't even spell holocaust. I can't...

[Autonomy]

47. I'm almost certain that was a deliberate misspelling

which would mean holocaust-denial.

[Autonomy]

46. I took it as a lame insult

but you may be right. Elie does sound like a girls name.

[polmaven]

58. I took it that way too,

cause everyone knows there is nothing more lowly in this world than a WOMAN!!!!!

[Barack_America]

60. They did seem to switch up the pronouns a few times.

How bizarre and hateful that whole post was!

[louis-t]

72. They spelled 'Christian' wrong, too.

:eyes:

[BobTheSubgenius]

87. I took it the same way.

Absolutely appalling.

[felinetta]

70. Who could possibly be surprised by their ignorance and racism?

[bulloney]

78. They saw the name Elie, and immediately thought 'Elie Mae Clampett.' And she's a girl, right?

Honest mistake, no? Other than it further displays their ignorance of history.

[caseymoz]

81. I thought knucklewalker was attacking his masculinity.

The way a schoolyard bully would.

[Jack Rabbit]

4. What does Elie Weisel ("she") have to do with Indonesia?

This must be written for a really bad TV sitcom.

[starroute]

7. Maybe they're confusing him with Obama

Or maybe they're arrived at some grand Indonesian-based conspiracy theory and we haven't yet noticed. :crazy:

[Ken Burch]

39. They've found out we're all pawns of the evil mastermind Megawati Sukarnoputri

Next thing you know, they'll be calling Nasi Goreng "Freedom Fried Rice".

[Beacool]

15. I was wondering the same thing..............

:crazy:

[caseymoz]

82. An unfunny joke/insult that doesnt' work on any level. nt

[tblue]

5. My hubby lost many family members in the holocaust,

but even if I had no Jewish relatives, I'd be appalled by those comments just as a human being. These hateful people use the holocaust as a punchline, just to get a rise out of people. They are beneath contempt.

Like you, I feel there are huge swaths of this country I want nothing to do with. I thank you so much for this post.

[Catshrink]

8. What will they do when they figure out that Cantor is also Jewish?

He also critized the Holocaust photo at Bachmann's Death Rally.

[MadMaddie]

9. He will be apologizing for his criticisim

5....4...3...2...1...

These folks have no soul.

[Catshrink]

10. I'm surprised he hasn't already.

[lolly]

67. Ah, but he's a "Good Jew"

That is, one who agrees with them and behaves like they want him to.

[tularetom]

11. The true colors are starting to show through

Wonder how this kind of shit will go over with politicians like oh I dunno, Joe Lieberman, Eric Cantor, journalists like Howard Kurtz, Wolf Blitzer, Howard Fineman, pseudo jopurnalists/apologists like Bernard Goldberg, wannabes like Dennis Miller, and hate radio personalities like Mark Levin and Michael Savage Weiner.

[Sebastian Doyle]

14. If Weiner Savage had a shred of intellectual honesty, this would make his head explode.

But knowing him, he'll probably never mention it. Not that I'd listen to his horrid show for even 30 seconds to find out.

[rockymountaindem]

26. He pretends he's not Jewish n/t

[Cirque du So-What]

34. I may be wrong

but I'm pretty sure Dennis Miller isn't Jewish.

[elshiva]

12. "This hollowcost thing is totally overblown by the jewish."

What's a "hollowcost?"

[WCGreen]

27. A broadcast of the Glen Beck Show....

A hollow Cast....

[Hepburn]

13. Words fail me....

...:wow:

[stevenleser]

17. May I use this?

Please let me know

[givemebackmycountry]

20. It ain't mine, and I don't think that John Avarosis would care either...

He's kind of good about spreading the word around.
He's got a GREAT site and DU needs to send him some love and some hits.

Oh, and he loves furry creatures too, so he's cool with most of us.

[BrklynLiberal]

77. Thanks for that info..

[OhioBlue]

18. they are absolutely disgusting

The ignorance is jaw dropping.

beyond words

[rasputin1952]

19. Knuckle dragging thugs...

they are little better than the people who committed those atrocities and continuing atrocities across the globe. The inhumanity of man can be astounding at times, to allow it to go unchallenged is cowardice, to agree w/it is barbarous.

[ChicagoSuz219]

21. Disgraceful & ignorant. nt

[Justitia]

22. And the anti-semites unmask themselves. -eom

[eleny]

23. OMG - They're an ugly mob out of control

And there's nothing to reign them in. The right wing media and the Republicans in Congress fan the flames openly.

[jillan]

24. I believe in karma, and this poor schmuck will get everything it deserves.

[rockymountaindem]

25. I don't want to put you down, because I know your heart is in the right place and I appreciate your

sympathy, but if you were Jewish, you would know that there is no shortage of people who think/say things like this all the time whenever Jews try to 1) defend the memory of the Holocaust from being cheapened in this way or 2) they disagree with a Jew. There are enough people who freak out and bring up Soros, the Rothschilds, Israel etc. whenever a Jewish public figure says something they don't like.

Statements like this are commonplace on the internet if you know where to look, which I do, because I am Jewish and I am always fascinated with certain peoples' obsession with us. As I always say, if you want to see some serious racist and/or anti-Semitic screeds, just find some relevant videos on youtube. I'm sorry you think this is one of the most repulsive things you've ever read, because it really crops up more often than you might imagine.

[Behind the Aegis]

33. Good for you.

Very well said.

"There are enough people who freak out and bring up Soros, the Rothschilds, Israel etc. whenever a Jewish public figure says something they don't like." Most will think you mean places like FR, Stormfront, etc, but it takes place here often as well. There is a thread in LBN right now with a few anti-Semitic remarks and those defending them. Like any form of bigotry, anti-Semitism is also found on the left.

Here is what I have seen here:

When the left uses Holocaust imagery, calls people "Nazis," or throw around terms like "concentration camp" or "Warsaw ghetto," it's "acceptable" or "truth2power". Then, when the ADL or Jewish groups/individuals complain, we get complaints how they are "oversensitive" and are reminded "the Jews don't own the Holocaust, nor were they the only victims." When the right does the same (as above), then we get posts about "Where are the Jews? Why aren't they making more of a fuss?" This time around, I must say, I was pleased to see many people were just disgusted and didn't feel the need to speculate on whether we, Jews, were disgusted enough or not.

[D23MIURG23]

28. Disgusting.

[lunasun]

29. TSK tsk

if you didn't already know these are a bunch of racist idiots , or thought it was only about a black guy as president. And yes they are all around every where you go; whether they are vocal in public, or just in the comfort of their home posting on Politico. It is the same trash just they won't say out loud.

[FrenchieCat]

30. I'm at a loss for words.....

Truly.

May be a first!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

31. Teabaggers need to be put away

[nadinbrzezinski]

32. Well this is what some of these guys want

blood in the water,

[vaberella]

35. I'm sorry but I couldn't get past "HOLLOWCOST" - I just can't do it.

I break out into laughter when I read it and this is a serious matter---but hollowcost----I can't. :rofl:

[Behind the Aegis]

37. Not to squash your hearty laugh but,

I have seen it written that way on many occasions. In this case, it is probably a brain-dead, uneducated turd; however, others use the term "hollowcost" for a very specific reason: the Holocaust is "hollow" meaning "not true," and "cost" the price the world pays for the Jews. Basically, this fake event has been used by the Jews to strangle the world and get their way. It is a side version of the concept of the "Holocaust Industry." It is similar to those who use the word "$howa", a bastardization of the Hebrew word for the Holocaust, "Shoah."

Sorry to insert a does of reality into this, but I read many sites and articles about the Holocaust, especially right-wing, hate groups, and yes, even leftist sites, and their hate for the Holocaust is almost as great as their hate for Jews.

[vaberella]

40. You're explanation makes a lot of sense. Well that sobers me up. I can now read the whole thing.

I have to admit in this context I don't think he was spelling it that way for a specific reason since he was saying "it was blown out of proportion." But your informative post is very welcome. Thank you.

[Behind the Aegis]

44. You're welcome and I agree with your assessment.

"...I don't think he was spelling it that way for a specific reason..."

I agree. More likely, this is an uneducated, blowhard ignorant prick.

[lolly]

66. Teabagger Logic at work

The "Hollowcaust" wasn't real, didn't really happen, and is just a trick by the Jews to get sympathy . . . . .

But it was also EXACTLY LIKE healthcare reform <holds up sign with piles of Holocaust victims, comparing them to victims of "Socialized Health care">

[Ken Burch]

38. What, may I ask, is a "Chritian country"?

I don't know anybody here who's family emigrated from Chritia.

[vaberella]

41. It sounds like a name for cheeseburger donuts. n/t

[Ken Burch]

42. Or a painful rash in a private area.

n/t.

[vaberella]

43. Ooh...Why is the ass-hole the place that comes to mind?! n/t

[Barack_America]

61. Canada?

[LeftishBrit]

45. How utterly SICKENING!

Only slightly redeemed by the sheer stupidity; e.g. when did Elie Wiesel have a sex change??? and what is his connection to Indonesia? Is everyone they don't like connected with Indonesia, just because Obama was?

But however much one can ridicule the sheer idiocy, it doesn't make it any less spine-chillingly horrible. There is considerable overlap between far-right and neo-Nazi attitudes everywhere: not surprising but sometimes ignored.

[PatrynXX]

48. Didn't complain when Bush was called Hitler

Re:

I don't see him condemnig the terrorist shooter at Fort Hood.

You didn't not complane when the libs were calling Bush Hitler.


Yeah of course (nevermind the spellingg I guessss ) Never can get into these pea size brain people that Hitler is right wing extreme. Stalin is on the other in of things. Those two hated each other and neither were good people. Extreme left extreme right. Bush is the closest thing one has to Hitler. Right down to Dick Cheney and Joseph Goebbels.


As for the first sentence up there, maybe they should listen to Rush. He's not condemning the attacks either. Says it's not a tragedy. People on the Right are so full of hate and some sort of fake anger they are making ridiculous mistakes and probably will turn the independents off. They hate being used for political gain and Fox Gossip Channel did just that.

[boppers]

49. The sickest part is americans not knowing jack-shit about it.

I've been learning since I was 12 or so, and every time I learn something new, it's hard on the heart, and soul.

Most of DU would have been "liquidated", or "sent to the east", for example.

[tomm2thumbs]

51. vomitous

hateful and vomitous

[XanaDUer]

52. SHE should stop her whining?

Huh.

[katkat]

53. considering all the harm he's done

justifying the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, I don't care what they call him.

[Chulanowa]

54. Why are you people surprised?

They've been saying this shit about blacks, Indians, and Arabs for fucking decades. Are we all shocked - just shocked! - that they finally decided jew-baiting was acceptable?

Fuck, so many "Democrats" joined them in their previous diatribes against this or that race or religion that they probably assume some of you are going to join the crew on this, too.

[JNelson6563]

55. These assholes are hardly the whole country.

You need to disengage for a while my friend. Those hateful fools are hardly the whole country, you fall for their shit. You're SUPPOSE to think they represent many more than they do and it seems you are playing along.

Julie

[givemebackmycountry]

63. Thanks Julie, and you are right about that part-

I guess what has me so upset, is that the Republican House leader spoke in front of a sign showing those images.
THAT took me by surprise, and they can apologize all they want, they still did it.

I'm thinking I need to take a few steps back, and maybe stop being shocked about shit like this.
However, these guys get in power again and I'm really afraid of what that will mean.

Sigh -

John

[Jennicut]

56. So stupid they think Elie is a "she".

Shit for brains.

[BolivarianHero]

57. And Republicans lament their failure to break 20% of the Jewish vote?

Next time, they'll be lucky to win 2%, and that's WITH Diebold's help.

[a la izquierda]

59. I'm with you on the "starting to hate this country"

i never thought i'd say that, and truly mean it. but i'd rather live in my adopted second home country, and deal with their political system, than deal with these hate-mongering imbeciles.


i just posted on facebook and i'm waiting for my family members to come out into the light and expose themselves yet again.

[The Wizard]

62. Republican fringe

taking over the party.
Teabaggers are the face and voice of the Publican Party.
There are no reasonable people left in that party.
Hateful and ignorant like the Ku Klux Klan.

[bertman]

64. That kind of disrespect and ignorance are deeply despicable and should have been

denounced by the GOP leadership, but they couldn't do it without alienating their base, which is less than 20% of Americans.

Don't let the bastards get you down, givemebackmycountry. They are only a small, but highly vocal, segment of our society. It's the much larger segment of willfully ignorant who choose NOT to be aware of what the tea-baggin' assholes are doing that bother me the most. It's hard to penetrate the thoughts of those who are addicted to "Dancing With the Stars", "Big Brother", "Survivor", and all the other crap spewing from their TeeVees.

Rec.

[JPZenger]

68. Rightwingers wonder why most Jewish people are liberals

There is an awful book for sale that challenges Jewish people for often being liberals. This type of response helps to explain why. Once you and your ancesters have been persecuted, it is easier to relate to the downtrodden, even if you personally have become financially successful.

[emulatorloo]

71. VILE - kick and recommending n/t

[husky92]

73. Teabaggers

This person didn't know Elie Wiesel was a man because those teabaggers have the IQ of a chipmunk and they are racist pigs. I, too, am embarrassed that these hate mongers live in tis country.

I want my country back, too. One without morons like this person and where people treat each other with respect. They always throw the Bush/Hitler thing out there. Those were bad, too, but those were sporadic rallies and demonstrations, not like these ones planned by Beck and Fox and that lame brain Bachmann. Theese tea bag rallies were also totally financed by right wingers like Armey, etc.

[Beer Snob-50]

74. I hope and pray that those who post this shit

are just a small minority of the rw universe. I do have a rw friend who seems more intelligent than these ape people.

[question everything]

75. Wonder what will Rita Lilie, of Huntingdon Valley, Pa, will say

Because, in a letter to the WSJ two months ago, she had this to say:

I am a proud Jewish conservative who took part in the Sept. 12 march on Washington.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203917304574413383922629624.html

[BrklynLiberal]

76. The ignorance shown by that disgusting post is way beyond any description.

It is difficult to believe that anyone can actually be that willfully ignorant and that evil...a terrible, scary combination. They do seem to appear together in many instances.

edited to change "mean" to "evil". Much more accurate.

[caseymoz]

79. Now the Swatikas have come out of the attic.

The teabaggers have just put themselves in quicksand, and their political and media patrons will have to work to not be pulled in.

[David Zephyr]

83. These people are monsters! Elie Wiesel is a hero to the world.

Sick.

How can anyone find this crowd anything less than vile.

Will Fox News report on this? I doubt it.

[Major Hogwash]

84. I didn't know Boehner was there! What a disgusting pig!

We need to use that in a commercial to run against him next year.

[gtar100]

85. Damn. Another day of idiot America wallowing in its ignorance.

Let's point them to a cliff and tell them liberals are scheming against them at the bottom.

[Maraya1969]

86. Let's all send these to Eric Kantor just so he can see what he stands for.

EDIT: You can't write him unless you are in his district BUT you can fill out this scheduling form and let him know if he will come to your neighborhood block and tell everyone what he thinks about the comments about the sign.

http://republicanwhip.house.gov/schedule.htm


What does "Point of contact" mean in the scheduling contract?

I really want to fill this form out because I don't think he knows that he is just as much a brunt of the racism that is rampant in his party as Obama is.