Top Cali. Dem Compares GOP Tactics to Nazi Propaganda…Right in Front of Nancy Pelosi
(Photo: AP)
(TheBlaze/AP) — The chairman of the California Democratic Party has compared Republican tactics used during the presidential campaign to the “big lie” strategy most famously employed by Nazi propagandists.
John Burton made the remarks Monday in an interview with San Francisco station KCBS while in Charlotte for the Democratic National Convention sitting, it appears, right next to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Cali.).
Burton claimed that Republicans lie constantly, perhaps as part of a grander plan.
He explained: “Joseph Goebbels’ concept was the big lie– if you tell it enough, people will think it’s the truth.”
Goebbels was the chief of Nazi propaganda, and Nazi leader Adolf Hitler believed the “big lie” had a greater chance of being believed.
Here is video, via The San Fransisco Chronicle:
The interviewer then asked whether Pelosi agreed with Burton.
“What I agree with is if you have endless money, you can try to sell any misrepresentation to the American people,” she replied, nodding her head. “And this is really– undermines our democracy.”
Pelosi has warned Americans several times about the dangers of heated “rhetoric,” saying it can lead to violence.
Republicans immediately criticized Burton and called for an apology, and Burton wrote in a statement: “To correct press reports of my recent comments about Republican lies, I did not call Republicans Nazis nor would I ever. In fact, I didn’t even use the word…If Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, or the Republicans are insulted by my describing their campaign tactic as the big lie – I most humbly apologize to them or anyone who might have been offended by that comment.”
The RNC’s Matt Connelly responded: “Chairman Burton’s comments are outrageous and insulting to all Americans. It’s become clear that with no record to run on and no plan for the future, President Obama and his allies will resort to the lowest attacks possible to divert attention away from the fact that Americans are worse off today than they were four years ago.”
(H/T: Gateway Pundit)
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golfmax13
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:24pm“Chairman Burton’s comments are outrageous and insulting to all Americans. It’s become clear that with no record to run on and no plan for the future, President Obama and his allies will resort to the lowest attacks possible to divert attention away from the fact that Americans are worse off today than they were four years ago.”
Might as well keep this quote handy for quick copy and paste. I think the Republicans should be letting this rip every time a Democrat opens their yap. They don’t have brain one, yet they’re still dangerous. Says a lot for their base.
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golfmax13
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:25pmbtw, that was Matt Connely from the RNC’s quote.
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Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 10:01pmAll the democrats know how to do is distort. This is disgusting, but be prepared, the DNC convention in Charlotte this week will cement the liberal agenda for all time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fx0CAboEo8
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phrogdriver
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 10:23pmWhy don’t the republicans really hit back? Why don’t they point out that Hitler did not believe in free markets and individual liberty? This idea that Nazis were somehow right wing has seeped into the American psyche and is simply hogwash. People who really understand why they are conservative can bat this nonsense away without breaking a sweat.
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Wayner
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:22amIf anyone has copied Goebells tactics, it’s most certainly the jackbooted thugs that make up the Obama administration,,, and not only Goebells but they are also disciples of Alinsky.
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borisbadinoff
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 1:15amRight on!! What is really interesting is that Goebbels learn all about propaganda from the US!! Yup, he studied the Wilson Administration’s propaganda machine and fully adopted it for the Third Reich. You do remember that Wilson was a democrat don’t ya??
Once the south end of a north bound mule, always the south end of a north bound mule!!!!!!
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loriann12
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 6:11amThe Democrats are turning everything up side down. They want to keep telling the lie that everyone is better off than 4 years ago. The only people who could possibly believe that lie are the Welfare Queens and baby daddys. the ONLY way I’m better off is tht after 3 and a half years of trying, I finally sold a house I moved out of in 2009. My in-laws (who owned the other half) are still having a hard time finding a house to buy with their half of what it sold for. We lost about $20,000 on it after only 3 years of living in it. The price of milk has doubled in just two years (at Aldi’s it was 99 cents, and now it’s $2.09
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 8:01amHank Williams got fired for stating nothing as serious as this. But, for this California lefty it’s a career enhancement opportunity. Go figure! These Dem-wits, the refreshing party of civility.
For more civility in action, just tune into broadcasts from Charlotte tonight.
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sWampy
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 9:45am$2.09 for a gallon of milk? It’s $5 for generic store brand here. ;-(
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sWampy
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 9:46amDemocrats always accuse their opposition of doing exactly what they are doing, it’s all from their playbook rules for radicals. They have done this from day one, they even did it back when they were founded on a platform of Universal Slavery, promoting that the blacks were better off as slaves, and the republicans were evil because freeing them would actually enslave them. Guess what their supporters were dumb enough to believe it then, just as now.
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Marine25
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 10:14am@phrogdriver
The Nazis were right-wingers. It didn’t somehow seep into our history. I am a political scientist, retired after 20 years in military and foreign service, trust me, you sound like a fool claiming the Third Reich was a bunch of leftists. Jonah Goldberg tried to write a book saying the same a few years ago and wrecked his reputation as an intellectual. There is enough stupidity seeping into conservative circlesthanks to the tea-party, please don’t contribute by posting such tripe on this board.
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JRook
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 10:55amAnd if the RNC, Matt Connelly and Romney had better ideas and policies they would run on those rather than fabricating lies about Medicare cuts, Welfare to work and auto plants that were closed under Bush being the PRESIDENT’s fault.
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Dismayed Veteran
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 11:28amWhat is that axium that states: If you use the word Hitler or Nazi, you have reached the end of your intellectual agrument?
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:23pmHere we go again with the demonization antics of the left in full color and display; right out of the book of Rules for Radicals.
So now they compare Ryan to one of the most evil of men, in a govenrment of absolute evil, that history has ever recorded…and that was from the left as well!!!
What is next on their claims?
Romeny and Ryan holding witch hunts with poodles and groudsquirrels under the light of a full moon or such nonsense? How much more needs to be revealed to show their tactics are hysteronics born of utter desperation?
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CatB
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:45pm@ SNOW
yes more PROJECTION .. accuse the other side of EXACTLY what you are doing .. whenever they make these claims know that is what they are doing / planning.
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Bill Rowland
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 6:10amHe did this while sitting next to one of the biggest liars in congress? Anyone who is interested in the truth only has to compare liberals claims against Sweet Old Baracks record to find the biggest liars. The liberals are following the paths of other socialist regimes – problem is they don’t remember that they all have failed. They also brought down the populace and made poverty the norm.
OMG Nov 6, 2012
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COLDSH
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:20pmI guess they’ve forgotten that Hitler was a leftist too…..
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:29pmAs well as forgotten that Gobbels studied and learned his theories from Edward L. Bernays. Just type “Woodrow Wilson’s Propaganda Minister” into your search engine, and it will come up Bernays.
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Marine25
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 10:22amWould somebody please explain to me how Hitler was a leftist? You look like fools saying it. I know it would be great to pin him on the other side, but he was as right wing as it gets. You either don’t understand the words left and right on the political spectrum or have no knowledge of the history of the Third Reich, or you are one of those pinheads who believe Hitler was a socialist because he left it in the moniker of the movement we he took over, in which case you are the dog that chases the invisible thrown tennis ball over and over again and you probably can’t read complex sentences anyway.
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kevinbogard
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 11:15amReally depends if you accept the Nazi’s as fascists, Fascism was a neither right nor left (IMO) but a mix of the two. It was a third way opposed to the extreme left such as communism but also rejecting capitalist free market that had seemingly exploited so many people, it even rejected democracy.
It had ideas and elements from both.
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hades3
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:19pmDemocrats are deciples of Lenin, They have been using his methods for years. The one they use on a daily basis is one of Lenin’s favorite phrases….”You don’t debate an opponent, you destroy him.”
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COLDSH
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:18pmI guess they’ve forgotten that Hitler was a leftist….
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Carlinpa
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:17pmAhh liberals hypocrisy and functional sub literacy in one story!
“He explained: “Joseph Goebbels’ concept was the big lie– if you tell it enough, people will think it’s the truth.””
1)That’s what THEY have been doing, against Romney and taxes, and being at Bain
2) The “NaZi propaganda was learned from the progressives aka The DEMOCRATS!! ahh the circle of stupidity is complete
yet again why I am no longer a democrat.. and each time this do this they lose more of people like myself.. so .. keep it up democrats..
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:24pmAnd for Pelosi’s inexcusable failure to stop the lie outright: she is a fanatical believer, and completely insane.
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Pontiac
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 10:55pm[NaZi propaganda was learned from the progressives aka The DEMOCRATS]
Exactly the point I was going to bring up. You beat me to it.
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kat747
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 11:39pmAmazing that the Democrats bring up Hitler and the Nazi’s when the current administration has a group of “CZARS” which is a word that represents the ruler of a country that had a feudal system. Is that what the use of the word “CZAR” was to bring to the USA ? ….the feudal system ??? Really, that is almost as backward as the Islamic religion taking over the world.
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KangarooJack
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:16pmWow! Really???
Nice!……………
Anyone else having their computer freeze and comments/posts being frozen mid-type? No-my ‘puter’s OK…It is THIS site and ONLY on few certain stories.
Must be the Obamanation Taskforce out in full riot gear. AKA computer geeks who HAVE A JOB…but STILL LIVE IN MOM’S BASEMENT!
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soybomb315_II
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:25pmno, its something stupid Theblaze does with their site. I had similar problem and switched to firefox
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:26pmYes it has been happening to me for some time; also I have been having to hit the refresh button about half the time as well just to see the article or scroll up/down. Blaze technical e-mailed me back a few days ago about it, some kind of problem they are working on still.
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grimmster
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:48pm@soybomb aka encinom.
Once again you are wrong boy,f-n idtiot…..
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dickdastardly
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:16pmDamn, she’s down right fugly!
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soybomb315_II
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:15pmWell, the brownshirts were definitely out in force during the RNC convention….
http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/dean-clancy/romneys-rnc-power-grab-what-happened
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MODEL82A1
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:26pmYup, SOY and just wait til we win this election. The Brownshirts are coming for YOU.
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soybomb315_II
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 10:08pmCome and get me Model. I dont plan on living forever
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Dougral Supports Israel
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:15pmNancy Pelosi: “What I agree with is if you have endless money, you can try to sell any misrepresentation to the American people,” she replied, nodding her head. “And this is really– undermines our democracy.”
Realize that Nancy and her husband have essentially endless money in comparison to the average American. Think about what has come from her mouth. Endless lies and half-truths to mislead us. Now for once she has told us the truth but she does so in an attempt to mislead us.
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Wool-Free Vision
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:44pmWe need a “Fletcher Memorial Home” for all the deceitful progressives who infest our society these days. Roger Waters was definitely onto something when he penned this for Pink Floyd’s “The Final Cut” album:
……..
Take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
And build them a home, a little place of their own.
The Fletcher Memorial
Home for Incurable Tyrants and Kings.
And they can appear to themselves every day
On closed circuit T.V.
To make sure they’re still real.
It’s the only connection they feel.
“Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, Reagan and Haig,
Mr. Begin and friend, Mrs. Thatcher, and Paisly,
“Hello Maggie!”
Mr. Brezhnev and party.
“Scusi dov’è il bar?”
The ghost of McCarthy,
The memories of Nixon.
“Who’s the bald chap?”
“Good-bye!”
And now, adding colour, a group of anonymous latin-
American meat packing glitterati.
Did they expect us to treat them with any respect?
They can polish their medals and sharpen their
Smiles, and amuse themselves playing games for awhile.
Boom boom, bang bang, lie down you’re dead.
Safe in the permanent gaze of a cold glass eye
With their favorite toys
They’ll be good girls and boys
In the Fletcher Memorial Home for colonial
Wasters of life and limb.
Is everyone in?
Are you having a nice time?
Now the final solution can be applied.
…….
But, of course, Mr. Waters being an incurable leftist himself, he directs all of his vitriol
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Wool-Free Vision
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 10:02pmBut, of course, Mr. Waters being an incurable leftist himself, he directs all of his vitriol at (mostly) all the wrong people.
By the way, I copied and pasted those lyrics from another website, and after reading them through I see there are several errors, the most glaring of which is the horrible disdain for meter exhibited by the dummy who transcribed it. But another which should be mentioned is that the “cold glass eye” is “their favorite toy.”
Suffice it to say that these progressive powerbrokers are going to be a raging thorn in the side of our Republic for years to come, if we can even manage to beat them back enough to maintain the Republic for that long.
This Obama presidency should be a clarion call to all who love this great nation, sadly too many sheep are too busy bleating out the talking points delivered to them by the leftists in academia and the media to hear it. I fear for the future of our Republic when our citizens are so brainwashed that we would allow it to progress this far.
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Snidely
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 10:22pmNot to mention how they conveniently forget to mention that Obama outspent McCain 2:1 in 2008. (According to required campaign filings as reported by the Federal Election Commission, $760,370,195 to $358,008,447; or $10.94 to $5.97 per vote) Is she admitting that they bought the election in 2008?
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phrogdriver
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:14pmSo the Nazi’s believed in small gov’t, free markets and individual liberty? Who knew.
All this time i thought the Nazis were statists who believed in gov’t helath care, stimulating the economy through infrastructure and gov’t funded abortion.
Boy is my face red.
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soybomb315_II
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:28pmBut the Nazis did squash dissent from those who were clamoring for freedom. There was a lot of that going on at the convention last week
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:40pmThey’ve been trying to paste the right with that Nazi label for as long as I can remember. And, that actually has been a while now. JZS has been rather constant at that here too. Of course, nobody comes up with an explanation to counter any of us when we illustrate how Nazism was a left wing form of government.
For those of you who have watched this video, its more than worth the ten and a half minutes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGL8CiUtXF0
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The-Monk
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:45pmHi RJJ,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SwNXQMoNps
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phrogdriver
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 10:02pmIt’s never been about left vs. right. It’s always been about liberty vs. statism. Whether the Nazis were leftist or rightists doesn’t matter – what matters is that they were statists. The Nazis were statists, the communists are statist, the radical Muslims are statists, the socialists are statists and the democrats are statists.
At their core, they are all the same philosophy.
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justangry
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 10:40pm@Phrogdriver, Do you really believe that Romney believes in any of the stuff?
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phrogdriver
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 10:56pm@angry – Nope, I don’t trust any of them. I think Ryan probably does believe that stuff, I think Romney might. But I know Obama doesn’t, and even though that’s not good enough, the only hope this country has is to get his Marxist **** out of the Oval Office.
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justangry
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 11:56pm@Phrog, Fair enough. I still think they’re on the same team, only pretending to be different, but you got to do what you think is best.
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phrogdriver
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:09amThere is no doubt in my mind Obama is a Marxist. (I could detail his lifelong association with the philosophy, but I’m guessing you know it.)
Romney spent at least a portion of his life as a capitalist. I don’t know what he believes, but I am 100% certain he’s not a Marxist. (He may not know what he is.)
He may be a statist. In fact, he probably is. But we can’t change anything if we aren’t willing to fight. This was the most conservative convention I’ve seen in years. It’s the most conservative platform in years. I’m encouraged, but not complacent.
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GodFearingMama
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:13pmBlahh HaHahaha.. Who listens to this woman.. She’ll say anything for a vote or a buck
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KangarooJack
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:13pmI flip channels. YES! I am a ‘flipper’! While zipping this morning I was fairly alarmed, yet strangely comforted, that CNN has gone ALL OUT OBAMA ALL THE WAY!
No other way to describe it. MSNBC is a re…
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dickdastardly
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:09pmROFL…calling the GOP Nazi’s….ROFLMBO!!! From the party (Gimmecrats, aka…Dems) who soon will send out flyers on the correct way to do the goosestep march…enough of this crap. TAKE BACK AMERICA IN NOVEMBER!!!
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Dougral Supports Israel
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:19pmThe Let tries with some success to pin the Nazis on the Right. The truth is the Nazi’s were just as socialist as the Communists and Fascists. Each movement was collectivist and essentially leftist. They were all part of the deadly love affair that the so-called intelligentsia had with leftist ideology in the early 20th century.
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KickinBack
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:08pmLol! Not the ‘other’ dreaded N-word…
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DIR
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:05pmBurton and Pelosi, two clowns at the democratic national circus, then of course there’s dum-BO. The convention should be held at the Sunny Brook Mental Institution for the Criminally Insane. Sunny Brook should be operated much like a ‘roach motel’ when guests enter they never leave. There they spend the rest of their unproductive lives doing to one another pretty much what they’ve been doing to the American public.
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freeberty
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:04pmWhy would anyone believe anything a politician says?
If you think anyone of them tells the truth, I think it says more about you and were you are in your life then it does about them.
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:03pmSo, you don’t believe ze big lie…..you don’t vant to keep beleiving ze hope and ze change. Would you like a cigarette? SSSSSSSSS……zeer you go, right in your eye. Now, will you sign ze paper, pledging your 3 dollars to ze Obama campaign? No, vell, would you like another cigarette? Remember, ve know where you live unt how you vote, and alvays look for ze union label…..OR ELSE.
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neiman1
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:02pmI remember Pelosi’s outrage at any use of Hitler in comparison to the Obama policies. She called it vicious hate speech. Pelosi tried to brand all Tea Party enthusiasts as vicious haters because a few of those signs were seen at some rallies.
Now Queen Nancy stands by and watches while failed (resigned from Congress for drug abuse) Burton calls Ryan a Goebbles?
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:17pmSHe is just getting in line and goosestepping with the rest of the Dems.
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chips1
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:01pmI didn’t even see Satan move his mouth when he spoke thru Pelosi and John Burton.
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watersRpeople
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 8:59pmIt’s propaganda coming from both sides.
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Sirfoldallot
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 8:59pmLooking @ Nancy Pelosi , looks 2 me like she’s on meth.
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Bohump
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 8:58pmDon’t worry, … She all ready knows all about Nazi Tactic’s .
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pissantno.10
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 8:57pmya dang it we libs should have all the money no money for the republicans they just out there trying to stir up our slaves cant you see im a goddess
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justangry
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 8:57pmI don’t know why the left is complaining. They helped make it legal for the Federal Government to legally use propaganda on us. They’re all lying. I’m pretty sure Pelosi voted for it too, but too lazy to look it up. I can’t believe people still believe these guys aren’t on the same team and playing us as fools.
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