April's GOP Asshat of the Month
It's not even a contest this month. At the same time as Don Imus was getting burnt at the stake for his quasi-racist remarks in regards to the Rutgers women's basketball team, an even more outrageous diatribe by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay somehow managed to fly beneath nearly everybody's radar. Speaking to a reporter about his indictments for money laundering and violating campaign finance laws, DeLay responded thusly:
"I am so outraged by this whole criminalization of politics. It’s not good enough to defeat somebody politically. It’s not even good enough to vilify somebody publicly. They have to carpet bomb you with lies and made up scandals and false charges and indicting you on laws that don’t exist. … It’s the same thing as I say in my book, that the Nazis used. When you use the big lie in order to gain and maintain power, it is immoral and it is outrageous…
It’s the same process. It’s the same criminalization of politics. it’s the same oppression of people. It’s the same destroy people in order to gain power. It may be six million Jews. it may be indicting somebody on laws that don’t exist. But, it’s the same philosophy and it’s the same world view. "
An obscure radio and cable personality makes some off-color remarks about a women's basketball team and the "outrage" doesn't subside for a week, but the man who was one of the most powerful leaders in our government for more than a decade can say something this outrageous and the story isn't even reported? Just further proof that the world is growing more insane with each passing day.
"I am so outraged by this whole criminalization of politics. It’s not good enough to defeat somebody politically. It’s not even good enough to vilify somebody publicly. They have to carpet bomb you with lies and made up scandals and false charges and indicting you on laws that don’t exist. … It’s the same thing as I say in my book, that the Nazis used. When you use the big lie in order to gain and maintain power, it is immoral and it is outrageous…
It’s the same process. It’s the same criminalization of politics. it’s the same oppression of people. It’s the same destroy people in order to gain power. It may be six million Jews. it may be indicting somebody on laws that don’t exist. But, it’s the same philosophy and it’s the same world view. "
An obscure radio and cable personality makes some off-color remarks about a women's basketball team and the "outrage" doesn't subside for a week, but the man who was one of the most powerful leaders in our government for more than a decade can say something this outrageous and the story isn't even reported? Just further proof that the world is growing more insane with each passing day.
posted by Mark at 5:06 PM
2 Comments:
Some Republicans on forums I visit agree with DeLay that he is the subject of a witch hunt and for political reasons...
He may or may not be an unfair target for political reasons. But to even hint that his situation is comparable to the deaths of six million people-- deaths that were intended to be only part of an entire genocide-- seems patently ridiculous, not to mention fairly insensitive.
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