For an organization that loves to smear people and organizations as “digitial brownshirts,” the Media Research Center sure does love to ramp up the manufactured outrage whenever someone else makes a Nazi reference. Tim Graham huffed in a Jan. 6 post:
Chuck Todd may have pushed out of his job hosting Meet the Press, but it wasn’t because he was an original thinker. Todd posted a piece about “Confronting Trump” on NBCNews.com that – shocker – sprung out of a family trip Todd took to Germany, including tours of museums about the Nazi era. This, unsurprisingly, turns to comparisons of Trump and Hitler:
As many a scholar and victim of the Nazi regime has wondered aloud, how did such a civilized nation like Germany end up bringing a tyrant like Adolf Hitler to power? Why wasn’t he stopped sooner? Why did it take a global war to stop him? Why did the German people usher him in, in the first place? Why didn’t the German people rise up themselves and stop him and the Nazis?
There’s no doubt that this recent history is what has motivated so many entities in American politics to make decisions on their own to confront the perceived threat of Trump. The lesson we all have taken from history is to stand up to tyrants, not to cower.
In fact, there’s been no shortage of attempts to confront or “stop” Trump — just far more bad attempts than good ones.
Graham doesn’t prove Todd wrong about his Hitler reference. Meanwhile, Mark Finkelstein had his own complaint in a Jan. 8 post:
Are you a liberal whose New Year’s resolution is to revel in more Trump/Hitler analogies? If so, we’ve got the show for you: Morning Joe!
Week in and week out, MSNBC’s morning show offers a steady diet of just the kind of Trump/Nazi analogies you’re yearning for! We crowned him “King of Nazi Analogies” last Halloween.
Take today’s episode. The first half-hour served up no fewer than nine mentions of the H-is-for-Hitler word—with one “fascism” thrown in for good measure.
Neither Graham nor Finkelstein mentioned their employer’s habit of smearing people as “digital brownshirts” — of course, doing so would undermine their talking point and demonstrate just how fake their outrage is.