MSNBC’s O’Donnell talks about Perry/AFA prayer event
Montgomery: Politicians' embrace of AFA's Fischer 'a sad commentary on the state of the Republican Party'
By Mary Tuma | 06.17.11 | 5:05 pm
... MSNBC’s The Last Word host Lawrence O’Donnell discussed the influence that AFA’s director of issue analysis, Bryan Fischer, may have on Republican candidates as well as the implications of the Christian event.
The conversation with Peter Montgomery, senior fellow of People For the American Way, highlighted comments made by Fischer on his radio show targeting the LGBT community as the purported cause of Nazism. Montgomery called Perry’s decision to allow AFA to sponsor and fund the prayer event “outrageous.”
“The bigger problem with the show is that Bryan Fischer is an endless torrent of the most extreme kind of bigotry and divisiveness,” Montgomery said. “The fact that his show is a regular stop for Republican presidential wannabes and members of Congress is a sad commentary on the state of the Republican Party. It suggests that there is no bigotry so extreme and no McCarthyism so repulsive that they will not embrace or overlook it in order to get the religious right voters that they think are listening to [his] radio show.”
A study released by Montgomery’s group, titled “GOP’s Favorite Hate-Monger: How the Republican Party Came to Embrace Bryan Fischer,” documents Fischer’s incendiary remarks, including characterizing Pres. Barack Obama as a fascist dictator, arguing homosexuals should be prevented from holding office, that Muslims do not hold constitutional rights and should be barred from immigrating to the U.S., and that Native Americans should be thrown off their land for not converting to Christianity quickly enough. The report notes how Fischer frequently hosts likely presidential candidates looking to draw religious right voters, including current GOP presidential hopefuls Tim Pawlenty, Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich and Michele Bachmann, who have all appeared on his radio show. Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour were also guests while they were contemplating presidential runs. In Texas, Republican Rep. Lamar Smith joined Fischer’s radio show as a guest.
When asked by O’Donnell why GOP candidates fail to worry about the political implication of associating with such an extremist organization, Montgomery said it is matter of the media and members of the public to give them “reason to worry,” by pointing to bigoted remarks and holding public officials accountability for going on the show. The Perry/AFA prayer event was also featured on Rachel Maddow‘s show earlier this week. ...
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Review
Shocking as it is, this book--a crucial source of original research used for the bestseller Hitler's Willing Executioners--gives evidence to suggest the opposite conclusion: that the sad-sack German draftees who perpetrated much of the Holocaust were not expressing some uniquely Germanic evil, but that they were average men comparable to the run of humanity, twisted by historical forces into inhuman shapes. Browning, a thorough historian who lets no one off the moral hook nor fails to weigh any contributing factor--cowardice, ideological indoctrination, loyalty to the battalion, and reluctance to force the others to bear more than their share of what each viewed as an excruciating duty--interviewed hundreds of the killers, who simply could not explain how they had sunken into savagery under Hitler. A good book to read along with Ron Rosenbaum's comparably excellent study Explaining Hitler. --Tim Appelo
From Publishers Weekly
Browning reconstructs how a German reserve police battalion composed of "ordinary men," middle-aged, working class people, killed tens of thousands of Jews during WW II.Hitler's willing executioners:
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Review
In a work that is as authoritative as it is explosive, Goldhagen forces us to revisit and reconsider our understanding of the Holocaust and its perpetrators, demanding a fundamental revision in our thinking of the years between 1933-1945. Drawing principally on materials either unexplored or neglected by previous scholars, Goldhagen marshals new, disquieting primary evidence that explains why, when Hitler conceived of the "final solution" he was able to enlist vast numbers of willing Germans to carry it out. A book sure to provoke new discussion and intense debate. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
Goldhagen's gripping and shocking landmark study transforms our understanding of the Holocaust. Refuting the widespread notion that those who carried out the genocide of Jews were primarily SS men or Nazi party members, he demonstrates that the perpetrators?those who staffed and oversaw the concentration camps, slave labor camps, genocidal army units, police battalions, ghettos, death marches?were, for the most part, ordinary German men and women: merchants, civil servants, academics, farmers, students, managers, skilled and unskilled workers. Rejecting the conventional view that the killers were slavishly carrying out orders under coercion, Goldhagen, assistant professor of government at Harvard, uses hitherto untapped primary sources, including the testimonies of the perpetrators themselves, to show that they killed Jews willingly, approvingly, even zealously. Hitler's genocidal program of a "Final Solution" found ready accomplices in these ordinary Germans who, as Goldhagen persuasively argues, had absorbed a virulent, "eliminationist" anti-Semitism, prevalent as far back as the 18th century, which demonized the Jews and called for their expulsion or physical annihilation. Furthermore, his research reveals that a large proportion of the killers were told by their commanders that they could disobey orders to kill, without fear of retribution?yet they slaughtered Jews anyway. By his careful estimate, hundreds of thousands of Germans were directly involved in the mass murder, and millions more knew of the ongoing genocide. Among the 30 photographs are snapshots taken by the murderers of themselves and their victims.=============================
Liann 06.17.11
The truth is that it is satanic to lie. American Family Association tells satanic lies. Hitler had no problem whatsoever finding HATER-osexuals to be sadistic killers for him. The SS was 100% haterosexual and included Hitler’s personal bodyguards. All concentration camp and death camp guards were SS haterosexuals. It is true that Ernst Rohm was a homosexual leader of the brownshirts murdered during the Night of the Long Knives Purge, but he was not the only leader of the brownshirts nor Hitler’s favorite person — he just happened to be useful as a machinegun smuggler during Hitler’s rise. The PINK TRIANGLES were the homosexuals sent to death camps and concentration camps for homosexuality, and they were not favored by Hitler or the Nazis.
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