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Wolf Blitzer: Ted Nugent used Nazi terminology, 'subhuman mongrel,' to describe President Barack Obama
CNN host Wolf Blitzer discusses Ted Nugent's comments about President Barack Obama.Ted Nugent may have made his name as a rock musician, but today he increasingly is known for his controversial comments about President Barack Obama. At a January gun expo in Las Vegas, Nugent described Obama as "a communist-raised, communist-educated, communist-nurtured, subhuman mongrel."Nugent now is campaigning with Texas Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott. This led CNNs Wolf Blitzer to question whether the Abbott campaign understands the history of such language. (Abbott has not distanced himself from Nugent.)"Thats what the Nazis called Jews to justify the genocide of the Jewish community," Blitzer said in a Feb. 18, 2014, interview. "They called themuntermenschen, subhuman mongrels. If you read some of the literature that the Nazis put out there, there is a long history of that specific phrase he used involving the president of the United States."
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/feb/18/wolf-blitzer/wolf-blitzer-ted-nugent-used-nazi-terminology-subh/
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Blitzer very clearly hates Obama like poison. For him to get upset about it means it must be so far beyond the pale and linked to such general cultural catastrophe that even some bona fide haters would want to distance themselves from it.
It's quite shocking that the Texas candidate for governor hasn't issued a full-scale apology for aligning himself with an obvious white supremacist like Ted Nugent. The guy is verging on racist skinhead, that mop notwithstanding.
Isoldeblue
(1,135 posts)because he is Jewish and tended to take Nugent's more personally. Otherwise, he is just like Nugent in many ways. The only difference is he just doesn't use as coarse a language as that smacked-ass does.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Isoldeblue
(1,135 posts)Hell, you can call Obama a Nazi even... but not what Nazi's called Jews.... That's off-limits. Oy vey.................
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)TBF
(31,921 posts)thank you Mr. Blitzer!
Enrique
(27,461 posts)how many people made the point that Nugent used Nazi rhetoric? Exactly one person: Wolf Blitzer. His guest even suggested that Abbott is deliberately making an appeal to Nazi voters in Texas. This was on CNN, wow.
whathehell
(28,969 posts)Ratty
(2,100 posts)Even the most arch conservatives feel safe doing that. I'll wait for Wolfie to take a more substantive stand before I give him an ounce of credit.