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In reply to the discussion: The Nazification of the Republican Party [View all]Kid Berwyn
(14,909 posts)31. FOX News' Roger Ailes was a Big Fan of Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's favorite NAZI filmmaker.
Absolutely. Republicans cant win fair and square. They need to lie, cheat, steal, and subvert the Constitution.
As film and radio for the Third Reich, television became the Fourths tool for controlling minds.
According to the new biography (and a history going back a ways in GOP circles), The Loudest Voice In The Room: How The Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News And Divided A Country:
Ailes was a big fan of Leni Riefenstahl, Hitlers notorious favorite filmmakernot for her Nazi ideology but for her cinematic talent as a propagandist. Ailes was especially taken by Riefenstahls use of camera angles.
SOURCE: http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2014/01/extraordinary-revelations-about-roger.html
Terry Gross of Fresh Air interviewed Gabriel Sherman, the guy who wrote, the book today.
This is the kind of information that Fox viewers might appreciate knowing before watching their television screens.
Something everyone should know: Roger Ailes and the Big Money has been in bed with Big NAZI for a long time.
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I laugh each time they do this because there's always at least one asshole who does it wrong.
TheBlackAdder
Jan 2021
#44
That lady was a Trump administration official helping guide Kavanaugh into the SC
Beakybird
Jan 2021
#2
The Republican's have been suppressing voters and using gerrymandering for decades to stay in power.
jalan48
Jan 2021
#13
FOX News' Roger Ailes was a Big Fan of Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's favorite NAZI filmmaker.
Kid Berwyn
Jan 2021
#31
The reTHUGS do their ratfucking in plain sight. Why do we let them get away with it?
abqtommy
Jan 2021
#16
There were American Nazis waiting for Hitler to take control in the 1930s...
AntiFascist
Jan 2021
#32
Madison Cawthorn's visit to Hitler's vacation home alarms his NC district's Jews
Kid Berwyn
Jan 2021
#39
They embraced it long ago and have been desperate to come out for decades.
Ford_Prefect
Jan 2021
#23