During a Wednesday press conference, singer Tony Bennett invoked a Nazi reference to preach gun control. But take a listen and see if you can figure out exactly what he's saying:
Here's a transcript:
QUESTION: How important do you believe it is to solve the problem of possible mental illness from some people and prevent the shootings before it happened and how do you think the industry of entertainment also can fulfill to create a new generations of young people that are not so sensitive to this type of tragedy?BENNET: Well, we should just care for our children so much and make sure that… my own children were told just don’t ever have a gun. No guns in my house, they're not allowed. And I just believe that assault weapons, they were invented for war, they shouldn't be on our streets here.
It’s the kind of turn that happened to the great country of Germany, when Nazis came over and created tragic things and they had to be told off. And if we continue this kind of violence and accept it in our country, the rest of the world is going to really take care of us in a very bad way.
We should learn that we're the greatest country because we are all different nationalities and all different religions and we should show the rest of the world how to behave. Thank you.
Clear?
"Tony Bennett is apparently unaware that the Nazi party was actually created in Germany and did not 'come over' from some other country," Newsbusters writes. "He also is apparently unaware that gun control laws were one of the many restrictions placed upon citizens under Nazi domination."
Later in the day, Bennett was asked about the comment by Wolf Blitzer -- and it didn't get much better (that parts starts at about four minutes):
Better?
