{"id":4156,"date":"2009-06-19T13:08:25","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T20:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=4156"},"modified":"2009-06-19T13:08:25","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T20:08:25","slug":"the-obama-hitler-mustache-caper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/06\/19\/the-obama-hitler-mustache-caper\/","title":{"rendered":"The Obama Hitler Mustache Caper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00c2\u00a0As you see, Stephen Colbert and the members of the Lyndon Larouche Organization have come to the same comedic routine.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s worth comtrasting how the two handled the joke.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The Colbert bit took less than ten seconds, and what you see in this image is the conceit of the\u00c2\u00a0mock – O’Reilly asking “Did you put up the Hitler Mustache image?” — meaning even in this parody he recognizes it as an absurd parody.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s taken off, and he moves on the Obama Fly-Swatting story.\u00c2\u00a0 The LYMers, on the other hand, are taking<\/a> the joke on<\/a> the road<\/a>, and<\/a> standing on street-corners for hours on end (as oppsoed to a few seconds) with the “Hitler Mustache” placard.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

There is at least one outraged reaction against Colbert’s image<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0— a bit different than the Seattle reaction.\u00c2\u00a0 As for the Larouchies, when I saw them standing in front of a Portland mall, they didn’t have the overhanging Larouche image that you see in the image shown at the top of this post.\u00c2\u00a0 I suggest that this might clarify a problem for them.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0For some not entirely\u00c2\u00a0apt reason, there are people\u00c2\u00a0running into the Mustached Obama image who will assume this is a neo-nazi organization.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The giant image of Larouche will clarify iit, “Oh.\u00c2\u00a0 Okay.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s even lamer.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s the Larouchies.”<\/p>\n

A bit of sympathy, of sorts.\u00c2\u00a0 Unlike the Obama Monkey “double standard” conundrum, which is a violation due to the\u00c2\u00a0historical nature \u00c2\u00a0of considering blacks as sub-human — though in the famed April of 2008 speech <\/a>Larouche more than violated the “same insult leveled at Bush<\/a>” line by explicitly running to the racialist\u00c2\u00a0problems of miscegenation — the “same as\u00c2\u00a0Hitler” line is just too second nature as mindless\u00c2\u00a0invective.\u00c2\u00a0 If Carter, Bush I, Gore, and Cheney Can be imposed with a Hitler Mustache or compared to Hitler, why can’t Obama?<\/p>\n

I suppose there’s the problem of Hitler’s Master Race conflicting with the message.\u00c2\u00a0 The need to arrive at a higher ground in\u00c2\u00a0the way of piddling political invective is shown with how this rather innocuous youtube video of Obama’s fly-swat<\/a> brings out “n”-word practioners in the comments section (which I saw flooding the page 1 yesterday — today, it’s buried a bit deeper) .<\/p>\n

Yes, I wonder what former Civil Rights activist Amelia Boynton Robinson <\/a>, now in her elderly years,\u00c2\u00a0bizarre Larouche validator, has to say about such an image.<\/p>\n

The good news for the Larouchies, I suppose, is that the Obama’s Care plan’s path through the Senate has hit some set-backs this week.\u00c2\u00a0 This has nothing to do with the whole campaign of wandering to street corners and putting Obama Mustached pictures up, but the delusion that it does can safely fill their mind.\u00c2\u00a0 Likewise, I can almost imagine Larouche (a big fan of Stephen Colbert, I hear) might just assume that Colbert’s handful of seconds of showing an image of Obama with a mustache is evidence of some influence or other.
\nComments from these postings, and a couple “talk radio pundits”, showing wherefor the Larouchies are aligned right now:<\/p>\n

whitemale<\/a>08 (???)\u00c2\u00a0 People who are smart and can connect-the-dots, can see on the horizon, a British Empire of Worthless Derivatives and Credit-Default Swaps Neo-Fuedalism and Serfdom posed as Malthusian Parasites and Ticks<\/em><\/p>\n

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Francois Tremblay une 11, 2009 at 4:57 am<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/a>: <\/em><\/span><\/span>There certainly isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t anything preventing Obama, given his incredibly high public support, from becoming the next Hitler or Lincoln.<\/em><\/div>\n
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It seems like there are many of you comment<\/a>ing that are confused about what the LaRouche youth are doing. What they are doing is trying to save you from a renewal of the same nazi policies (“useless eaters”)implemented by Hitler in 1939 being imposed by the apparently captive President Obama with his “new” health care limitation initiative. The President appears to be a captive of his advisors (Larry Summers,Peter Orszag), who themselves are selling this country down the river. Whether the President is a willing captive or not remains to be seen.
\nAnd for the rest of you (you know who you are) that are threatening these kids, there is a special place in Hell for you waiting – but you know that, don’t you? You are already living there.<\/em><\/p>\n

More mainstream with a bigger platform:
\nMark Levin: <\/a>Let me tell you what I think you’re doing<\/a>, Mr. President. You want this economy to crash. You want this currency to crash. Because what a magnificent opportunity to rearrange and remake society once its basic institutions have failed. That’s what you’re up to. I’m the only one with the guts to say it, because I know history. I know economics. I know your mentors. I know what you’re doing. You have a huge chip on your shoulder. And a really sick philosophical point of view. That’s where you’re taking us.
\n<\/em>(Yes, it’s a bit like Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine, isn’t it?)<\/p>\n

And the inestimable Glen Beck here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Then again, we can stay a bit closer to home — switch topics considerably from domestic policy concerns to world intrigue, and see this bit commending Webster Tarpley<\/a>.:<\/p>\n

“\u00c2\u00a0 Webster Tarpley is a gifted historian who generally eschews mention of Jewish bankers in favor of euphemisms like “Venetians.”\u00c2\u00a0 Therefore it is unusual for him to state bluntly that King Edward VII was in the pay of the Rothschilds and was responsible for World War One.\u00c2\u00a0 “<\/em><\/p>\n

Or we can go to a current news hot spot (in terms of twittering, I’d say th<\/em>e spot) and see who’s blaming the British right now<\/a>.
\nAs well the Zionists.<\/p>\n

I sort of have a suspicion of where the Larouchies stand on the election crisis in Iran.\u00c2\u00a0 Came to me seeing Ahmadinejad posing with Russian President Medvedev<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 They don’t take their orders from Russia so much as deign to ingratiate themselves with the Russia’s line.\u00c2\u00a0 It helps that the Ayotallah is blaming the British and the Zionists.\u00c2\u00a0 Crudely speaking, it serves the all-important purpose of making sure Larouche is mentioned at some point on Russian television so that the designated Larouche wikipedia Team can perform the all-important task of getting Russian mentions into the lede<\/a>, which will thus allow a pittance of LYM recruit prospects to get the impression that the man is taken seriously somewhere or other.
\nWill Weback, June 14:\u00c2\u00a0 Many of the interviews seem to be justifications for the invasion of South Ossetia, which is understandable from a state-run company. Other Americans who are interviewed include <\/em>Alexander Cockburn<\/em><\/a> and <\/em>Paul Craig Roberts<\/em><\/a>.
\n<\/em>And notable for the purpose of wiki-editing: is “Was interviewed on a Russian television show”\u00c2\u00a0mentioned in the wikipedia profiles for Cockburn or Roberts?<\/p>\n

But the cult needs to hawk their validators.\u00c2\u00a0 An interesting observation, taking off on the\u00c2\u00a0factnet observation about his complete irrelevance<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0to even what he’s come into contact with\u00c2\u00a0— this book about Eugene McCarthy<\/a>, a book which covers plenty\u00c2\u00a0or virtually\u00c2\u00a0all\u00c2\u00a0of his political actions during his irrelevant stage of his career (a career where everything besides his 1968 presidential run is an asterisk, and a career where he essentially contrararian-ed himself to as irrelevant a position as he could find) — has no mention of his campaign on behalf of Larouche.\u00c2\u00a0 McCarthy relevant enough that the dailykos posting on the “monkey” quote tagged it with “Eugene McCarthy<\/a>“, to some bafflement.<\/p>\n

And this book on George Soros<\/a>?\u00c2\u00a0 The best I can come up with I’ll post in the comments.\u00c2\u00a0 Where I’ll also stick up a mainstream blip regarding Webster Tarpley (who Larouche would like to make clear is in no way associated with) and an item on a long list of\u00c2\u00a0pro wrestling urban myths which is rolling around the pro wrestling blogosphere.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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