Debunking HANNITY's smear of CARTER ("so-called holocaust")

[UTUSN]

Yesterday, Monday 1-22, I caught a couple of minutes of this HATE monger. One of his callers said he heard CARTER use the phrase "so-called holocaust." The clear implications were that CARTER was denying-the-Holocaust and is anti-Semitic. HANNITY, of course, POUNCED on this, saying that his crack staff would get on this to produce a tape.

Today I happened to be in the car again, and the only local talk radio station is ALL wingnut, so do NOT conclude that I listen as a FAN.

If HANNITY had come up with something damning, he would have run it in the first hour, at the TOP of the hour. Instead it was in the final 20 minutes.

So he played the tape with a downer of an introduction, saying he will "let you decide" how to interpret it.

So on the tape, a kid asked CARTER how WW II started. CARTER said (paraphrasing), "It started with Adolf HITLER, the leader of the German nation. He carried out aggression against neighboring countries because the Western democracies didn't stop him early enough. And then he carried out ONE OF THE MOST HEINOUS CRIMES IN HISTORY, THE EXTERMINATION OF JEWS, THE SO-CALLED HOLOCAUST."

It is ABSOLUTELY TOTALLY CLEAR that there is NOT ONE DROP of Holocaust-denial here. CARTER's use of the phrase "so-called" is an IDIOM, a COLLOQUIALISM, meaning "THAT WHICH IS CALLED THE HOLOCAUST. It is called SO/THUSLY: the Holocaust."

There is NO bottom to HOW LOW these loathsome, HATE MONGERING WINGNUTS will go.

[Faygo Kid]

1. Thanks for posting this. I thought Hannity was an idiot, now I know he's dangerous.

If (when?) Bush declares martial law and suspends the Constitution, Hannity will be the number 1 cheerleader. Rush, Savage, are obviously too unstable. Goebbels could not rely on them, so they will "disappear." But Hannity, O'Reilly, Beck and Ingraham will be elevated to sainthood, and all power. Nobody more than Hannity.

[Kagemusha]

2. I think I remember what Carter said. So-called terrorism, not holocaust

That's what my memory tells me.

Someone just converted it to Holocaust because, well, denying terrorism against Jews is the same as denying the Holocaust, right?

[UTUSN]

3. I just heard the tape on the radio. It is as I have quoted. n/t

[Kagemusha]

5. Oh I'm sure that is what the caller said.

But I think he's misquoting Carter.

[UTUSN]

6. Uh, noooo. They PLAYED THE CARTER TAPE today.

My summary in th O.P. is what CARTER SAID. Sorry for the yelling all caps, but I don't know how to be any clearer.

In fact, I'm sure somebody will find a link to the CARTER TAPE sometime in the next several days and will post a new thread on this topic that will get HUNDREDS of replies.

[Kagemusha]

7. Sorry.

I guess he said something new. *sigh* Big mouth of his.

[Tom Joad]

4. Their are whole organizations working overtime to smear carter.

You are right, there is no denial from Carter here of the Nazi crimes against the Jewish people.

What many would like to deny are real crimes of the US and Israel in the Middle East. Those crimes too are very real.