Bill Schneider (CNN)--"* didn't bring up the world "facist" at all"

[Skidmore]

ROFLMAO!! Gee that must not have polled well. Bet that focus group they cranked that one out of has been sent to Gitmo in punishment.

[Nimrod2005]

1. Damn right.....!

[Critters2]

2. The bizarre thing

is that it's NEWS that the president didn't call his critics fascists.

That's just sad.

[warrens]

3. And I quote

WASHINGTON -- President George W. Bush has in recent days recast the global war on terror into a "war against Islamic fascism." Fascism, in fact, seems to be the new buzzword for Republicans in an election season dominated by an unpopular war in Iraq.

Bush used the term this month in talking about the arrest of terrorists suspects in Britain, and he later spoke of "Islamic fascists" in a speech in Green Bay, Wis. Spokesman Tony Snow has used variations on the phrase at White House media briefings.

Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., in a tough re-election fight, drew parallels Monday between World War II and the current war against "Islamic fascism," saying they both require fighting a common foe in multiple countries. He has been using the phrase for months.

And Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld took it a step further Tuesday in a speech to an American Legion convention in Salt Lake City, accusing critics of the administration's Iraq and antiterrorism policies of trying to appease "a new type of fascism."

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060831/NEWS07/608310334/1001/NEWS

They really don't give a shit anymore, do they? Just lie, lie, lie and move on to the next lie.

[peacetalksforall]

4. I think we should use P-NACO FASCISTS.and P-NACO

FASCISM when talking about the regime who is at war with the world including us.

[LostInAnomie]

5. Too many people pointed out to Bushco spokesmen...

... that it doesn't actually make sense.

They've switched to "totalitarianism" so that they can include the Soviets as well as the Nazis. It lets them stir up all the "arm-chair cold-war warriors".

[thereismore]

6. how about the references to Hitler? Hm? nt

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. It probably depends on the audience/venue. "Fascist" works better

with a background of old people wearing VFW campaign hats.

[malaise]

8. Yep that Islamo-fascist

fuggery was deleted rather quickly. If the depth of his speech is measured by buzz words dropped, Bush speeches represent a new low. Content irrelevant:rofl: :rofl:

[applegrove]

9. They are very covetous of the word "fascist" and how it is used.

They keep trying to say "Hitler was not a fascist". That is all you get at mixed boards. And in some literature. I'm guessing they want WWII to be known as a
"Liberal" War. Instead of what it was.. a corporate+psychopathic = fascist holocaust.

Maybe that is why they are blanking out so much of the archival documents from 40 & 50 years ago. Perhaps the word "fascist" will be a word that speak not it name... like "neocon".

Enough already with trying to control the word fascist.