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This is Ohio's GOP Congressional Candidate Rich Iott:
I wonder what him and the Tea Party Express would think of a bunch of Brown people dressing up in turbins and beards recreating Al Qaeda terror missions in the US (for weekend educational purposes and having fun recreating history, of course). AQ was also a small force that literally changed the entire world in one day...purely historical interest, my !"I've always been fascinated by the fact that here was a relatively small country that from a strictly military point of view accomplished incredible things. I mean, they took over most of Europe and Russia, and it really took the combined effort of the free world to defeat them. From a purely historical military point of view, that's incredible."
Actually, to be fair, I hear it's possible to make the argument that Nazis weren't a bunch of bloated s -sucking s...really, it wasn't the Nazis' fault, it was just Hitler's Stage-3 syphilis that is to blame. Right, WC?
Point is, the Tea Party Express can't be a cohesive national movement when so many crazy ers like Iott are their candidates. The Wiking Division is known for war crimes for christ's sake, and while you can't stop "historical groups" from doing this there's got to be some standard of intelligence if the GOP is going to let the Tea Party Express in on the action when choosing candidates. Or maybe they don't want legitimate candidates, maybe they really do want loons like Iott and Angle and O'Donnell and Palin to represent them? May the god of vaginal-only sex, fear-mongering, and low taxes without cutting the budget have mercy on us all!
To be honest, I agree with his quote, that what Germany accomplished militarily (and also politically) is pretty f'ing amazing. But you could say that of lots of military leaders. (Hannibal, Washington, etc etc.) That's why they're revered.
Of course, that doesn't mean I'm going to dress up as a Nazi... especially if I want to run for political office. Shoot, at least do it during Halloween, and make it something like a mad-scientist Nazi or a Zombie Nazi or some other variation.
The "Tea Party" is a segment of voters with parallel anger, but with disparate philosophies and goals for govt.
We actually agree on something.
I wonder how many other pictures anyone can scrounge up of some Tea party member play acting on the side of Nazi's in a war game. Out of the millions of Tea part supporters, that's truly one in a million, or less...
It would be nice to know the real context. Is it just a game, or does he have Nazi tendencies. A picture seldom portrays the whole truth.
Of all the crazy tea baggers and their manipulators have been spewing, this Young Guns play Nazi dude is the ONLY one the Repugs are disowning.
Repugs' Big Tent is an insane asylum
Last edited by boutons_deux; 10-11-2010 at 01:01 PM.
According to Mr. Iott, father/son bonding. Nothing to see here.It would be nice to know the real context. Is it just a game, or does he have Nazi tendencies. A picture seldom portrays the whole truth
I might not think this guy's overtly racist role play is indicative of the average teabagger's closet racism, but I sure think his stupidity is more or less par for the course.
Tone deaf to the max, for sure.
Ever play a game on play the bad guy? Ever play one of the most popular games ever called Grand Theft Auto?
If so, does that mean you are a criminal?
lol. Yeah, the Nazis are just misunderstood Mafiosos.
GMAFB.
I don't see much difference. Why do you?
Because I'm not a moron...
who thinks a real regime devoted to ethnic cleansing is 'not much different' from a stereotypical and fictional depiction of a Guido crime figure.
You're an idiot.
I posted the link, you chose not to read it and/or investigate it further. Also, since Grand Theft Auto moved to PS2, the storylines have not been simply about killing innocents and being a gangster. If you actually played the games you'd know that instead of taking a page out of Joe LIEberman's playbook.
A standard for intelligence is what I was wondering about, how low is the bar for GOP candidates these days? Maybe he really doesn't mean any harm by recreating SS missions? Or maybe he shows up to Jewish Temples dressed like that for the lulz? Doesn't matter to me, it's the stupidity of the man that I wonder about and where the double-standard comes in when it involves "historical atrocities" because if brown people ran around doing dry-runs of 9/11 - the Tea Baggers would be crying bloody murder.
What don't I understand?
Isn't that the same thing games like Grand Theft Auto does?"These guys don't know their history. They have a sanitized, romanticized view of what occurred."
Wrong is wrong. Is something less wrong, OK?
most voters would give the guy a pass if he only played GTA. in fact, nobody would know because nobody would care.
Did anyone on his staff mention an admiration for Mao.....? I mean the next thing you know a certain network would play on that quote for years... luckily for this guy there isn't a dishonest 'news' netwrok to make it something it is not...
Glenn Beck will run the story so he can just mutter the word Nazi one more time.
nah, beck would explain the picture away..and then blame the true nazis ..the accusers.
Glenn Beck is obsessed with Hitler and Woodrow Wilson. (I'm just saying.)
Kinda long, but at times comic read.
Ya know, I was never really afraid of Beck until I read that article that you referenced. That is genuinely a loss of grounding. Seriously. Scarily ungrounded.
Woah woah woah. Are you denying that there are differing levels of wrong here? Are you equating stealing a candy bar with, say, murder?
Definitely a comic, silly attempt, with wrong facts themselves - the Dark Ages' ending being 1000 AD, for instance. Most pinpoint the true end at the invention of the printing press in the mid 1400s. I have never read anyone putting it anywhere near 1000 AD.
Not defending Beck specifically, but welcome to the political arena. Getting butthurt over someone constantly comparing a practice, person, or ideology with either a similar or contrasting one isn't exactly new to the game. This piece was a pot-stirrer, nothing more.
From Wiki:
Starting and ending dates varied: the Dark Ages were considered by some to start in 410, by others in 476 when there was no longer an emperor in Rome, and to end about 800, at the time of the Carolingian Renaissance under Charlemagne, or to extend through the rest of the 1st millennium.
Completely agree. That's why I said you need to take it with a comic angle.
I don't think Beck is as crazy as he portrays himself, or as crazy as described. He obviously knows what brings the money in, and that's exactly what he's going to pound on.
Not at all. I'm actually pointing out these are games. Games are not real. If we are to judge someone by one violent game that pretends to kill, shouldn't the same standard hold to another game that involves killings?
Also from wikipedia: Originally, the term characterized the bulk of the Middle Ages as a period of intellectual darkness between the extinguishing of the light of Rome, and the Renaissance or rebirth from the 14th century onwards.[4] This definition is still found in popular usage,[1][2][5]
Although I am perhaps "off" in the exact dating, the Dark Ages has long been known as a roughly 1000 year period from 400-1450 AD, approximately. Now termed more loosely as part of the "Middle Ages."
Either way, I don't think he presented his facts clearly enough to call Beck out on them.
As for the comic piece, I think we're both on the same page. it's a post like EVAY's that alarms me: why buy so eagerly into such a piece? It was mostly a scathing commentary on his programming, not much else.
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