The Bush Administration's stance on Iraq is reminiscent of Adolf Hitler using foreign policy to hide his domestic woes." German Justice Minister Herta Daeubler-Gmelin.
"Right out of Nazi Germany." Republican Senator Phil Gramm on Democrats who suggested a capital gains tax on Americans who renounce their citizenship to avoid paying income taxes.
"I am sure voters will get their fill of statistics claiming that the Bush tax cut hands out 40 percent of its benefits to the top 1 percent of taxpayers. This is not merely misleading, it is outright false. Some folks must be under the impression that as long as something is repeated often enough, it will become true. That was how Adolf Hitler got to the top." Republican Senator Charles Grassley.
Gramm and Grassley both admit to their words as they are in the congressional record. The German Justice Minister adamantly denies what she said, it was not recorded and only one reporter from one newspaper heard it.
Nonetheless, we heard the quote by Herta Daeubler-Gmelin across the entire media for over a week. It "poisoned" our foreign policy, it turned George Bush's head purple, Rumesfeld broke his wrist, Prime Minister Schroeder was forced to have her fired, and just today Henry Kissinger referred to her dastardly statement in a column syndicated around the world.
What was the outcome of two Republican Senators doing the very same thing though directed at Democrats rather than Republicans? Was the Senate poisoned? Were the Senators forced to apologize to the world? Were their resignations on Bush's desk the next morning? Were they even sorry? Did the media plaster it across the world for a week? Of course not, only a very few who read a Paul Krugman column a few weeks ago even noticed.
The reason these same sentiments are treated so differently by the media is really quite simple. President Bush, in political trouble at home, has changed hundreds of years of American foreign policy to initiate preemptive wars against other nations. In such a time the last
thing our intelligent American public needs to hear is some bimbo in Germany telling us the truth. While on the other hand, Democrats speaking the truth about George W. Bush's regressive tax policies or advocating capital gain taxes on American traitors, requires all real Americans to call them Nazis. Liberal Bias Media MY ASS.
