Comedian Michael Ian Black 'loses his shit' when someone compared Obama to Hitler

[LongTomH]

From Michael's blog:

Last night, as I was talking about how much I love the president (because I do), somebody yelled out “Heil Hitler.”

Heil Hitler?

My immediate reaction was to crumple to the floor, which I did. I don’t know why, except that it seemed to me in that moment that the show had now gone south very quickly, and if bottles were going to be thrown, I didn’t want to get hit.

But then I stood up and asked the person (shrouded in darkness, as people who scream “Heil Hitler” often are) why he yelled that, thinking maybe he thought it was funny in some obtuse way, like maybe he though shouting that would be interpreted as clever satire. Or maybe he was being ironic. Grasping, I know, but I honestly had no idea why somebody would yell that outside of a Klan rally.

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So the audience settles down, and I turn to the gentleman and say, “Sir, I say with this all due respect - you are a fucking moron.”

And then I kind of lost my shit.

I just started screaming at the guy. Screaming. I don’t even know what I was screaming, although the gist was, “How dare you compare Hitler to this president or any president? How dare you equate what he did with Obama is doing? Do you have any idea how insulting that is? Do you know anything about history? Do you have any idea what Hitler did? He killed six million of my people, which is six million more than Obama has killed. You’re a fucking idiot. You’re a fucking moron. You’re the fucking problem with this country. You and your reflexive retardation. You’re a fucking this-and-that…” and then I just basically started yelling “fuck” a lot at the guy. Fuck fuck fuck fuck.

Gee! I've wanted to do that with a lot of Wingnuts I encounter around here - and yeah, they do compare Obama to Hitler!

Michael is usually a calm, laid-back dude, so his tirade has attracted a lot of attention. Like this article in the New York Observer and another at Gawker TV.

[chill_wind]

1. Yep

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8998715

[LongTomH]

3. Ooops! Missed that one!

nft

[chill_wind]

4. S'ok. It's a good one, too, and just figured

you''d appreciate it. There are moments in politics that deserve more than a moment of attention.

[deaniac21]

2. How can anybody get that worked up about a politician? They

all end up disappointing us.

[scheming daemons]

7. ....says a person whose username implies he's a "Howard Dean Maniac"

...oh, the irony.

[deaniac21]

11. Yeaaaaarrrrrggggghhhhhh!!

[david13]

5. It's so much more than politics. It's history. It's common sense.

He was absolutely right in yelling down such a stupid comment.
Nobody should be allowed to yell out such a stupid comment without being shouted down. I say he was right.
I would have done exactly the same thing.
dc

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. My only problem is that it was six million Jews and seven million

gentiles...

And I have asked a local RW'er when was the last time Obama killed 13 million people?

Oh and yes I am a daughter of a holocaust survivor... but also a historian. Why I like to acknowledge ALL the victims of the Holocaust.

[Scurrilous]

8. K & R

:thumbsup:

[baldguy]

9. Any president? Bush had a good start killing 1 million.

[applegrove]

10. That doesn't happen enough.