The Media Research Center doesn’t like it when someone in the media tries to liken President Trump or conservatives in general to Nazis. For instance:
- Kristine Marsh denounced a “ridiculous segment” on MSNBC in which panelists “claim[ed] Trump was behaving like a Nazi.”
- Curtis Houck attacked a CNN segment that “subtly painted Tea Partiers as angry, irrational conspiracy theorists who ran around with signs depicting the President as the Joker or a Nazi.”
- Ryan Foley grumbled that Fox News host Laura Ingraham was likened to a neo-Nazi over an anti-immigration rant despite “Ingraham making it perfectly clear that she did not intend for her comments to come off as racist.”
That outrage, needless to say, does not extend to anyone who likens a non-conservative to Nazis — indeed, it seems the MRC encourages such attacks. Case in point: An Aug. 6 column by MRC senior fellow Allen West, published at MRC “news” division CNSNews.com, is a rant about how “much of what the venerable First Infantry Division stood against now seems to be penetrating our America.” His first example: “Men who landed on Omaha Beach to fight against National Socialists (Nazis) now live in an America with avowed Democratic Socialists (Demzis).”
Also needless to say, West still has a job at the MRC. Hypocrisy at its finest.