In an attempt to distance conservatives from the Nazi imagery some right-wingers have used at town hall protests, Seton Motley uses an Aug. 12 NewsBusters post to highlight the fact that Lyndon LaRouche-linked groups are the ones behind one particular image, one of President Obama with a Hitler-like mustache.
Making sure to copy from LaRouche’s Wikipedia that “LaRouche has run for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States seven times” — and failing to note that no mainstream Democrat supports LaRouche– Motley also repeatedly calls LaRouche a “Communist.” Really?
While LaRouche’s Wikipedia page notes that LaRouche began his political career as a Trotskyite, it also points out that the Communist Party USA tried to “eliminate” LaRouche. And while LaRouche may hold some left-leaning views, he also holds some right-leaning views as well, such as disdain for the counterculture and global warming skepticism, as well as opposition to globalism.
Nevertheless, Motley insists: “It could very well be that many (most? all?) of the swastikas and Hitler images on display at these rallies are being toted by supporters of the very Leftist LaRouche, and not the conservatives to whom the media so readily and repeatedly ascribe them.” Given right-wingers’ enthusiasm for likening Obama to Nazis, that’s likely not the case.
UPDATE: An Aug. 13 post by Motley describes LaRouche as an “esoteric left-winger” who “most certainly can not be described as a conservative” — even though, as noted above, he supports traditional values and is a global warming denier.