Just Like Hitler

Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh compared President Barack Obama’s health care logo to Nazi imagery Thursday on his afternoon show.

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And I realize I’m Godwinning this article, but that phrase found on that site calls to mind the words Arbeit macht frei, which ironically graced the Nazi concentration camps. The fact that that statement is correct does not imply that reading Dr. Koren’s material will lead to being well informed.

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A woman protesting Democratic plans for health care reform was captured holding up a sign of a Swastika, with the president’s name below it, encircled and crossed out by a red line.

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At the How To Take Back America Conference last weekend, conservative speaker Kitty Werthmann led a workshop called “How to recognize living under Nazis & Communists.”

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Werthmann explained how universal healthcare, an Equal Rights Amendment, and increased taxes were telltale signs of Nazism.

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CNN host D.L. Hughley turned to the standard left-wing tactic of playing the Nazi card against Republicans on his program on Saturday evening: “The tenets of the Republican Party are amazing and they seem warm and welcome. But when I watch it be applied — like you didn’t have to go much further than the Republican National Convention….It literally look[s] like Nazi Germany.”

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CNN founder Ted Turner is comparing FOX News Channel to Adolph Hitler, insisting that while FOX News may be popular, Adolph Hitler was also popular when he came to power — was elected to power just before World War II.

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A school board member in California says those who oppose the state’s SB777, a law approved by last year’s legislature and signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that restricts public schools to teaching only positive perspectives of homosexuality, are “like Hitler.”

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Mr. Cooke’s letter in the Times Free Press comparing the United States to Nazi Germany purposefully ignores the facts. Iraq and Afghanistan were like Nazi Germany, not the U.S.

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Aboriginal workers in NSW whose wages were paid into government trust funds and never returned were treated like slaves under a scheme similar to those operated by the Nazis, according to a secret policy document written by a former top bureaucrat, Carmel Niland.

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In the Egyptian government daily Al-Ahram, columnist Mustafa Sami writes that the U.S. Navy detention camp at Guantanamo Bay is like the Nazi camps of the previous century.

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