I’ve got to issue a bit of an apology to Stephen Colbert. For once the lefties online are right about something.
In gearing up for the Colbert Report, I spoke several times to Stephen’s staff. We went over the topic areas to be discussed, played twenty minutes of question on the types of areas he’d pursue, and then in the green room Monday night kind of recapped.
My twittering never came up. So when defending my statement on Linda Douglass that she was the Joseph Goebbels of the White House, I told him she’d called anti-health care deform activists “brown shirts.” Actually, she didn’t. In trying to remember why I had called her that, I got her confused with Congressman Brian Baird, which happened about the same time as all the other stuff. Sorry for getting her confused with Brian Baird, or rather I guess I should apologize to Brian Baird for getting him confused with a hack like Douglass.
I actually called Douglass that related to her demand for people to turn in their neighbors by forwarding in their emails with supposedly lies and mistruths about health care.
Goebbels was Hitler’s propaganda minister and believed that the big lie, if told often enough, would be accepted as truth. In her capacity in the White House promoting health care deform through propaganda and efforts to have people turn their neighbors in for daring to speak against Obamacare, and as a former journalist who gave soft ball interviews on the campaign trail to members of Obama’s campaign team, thereby helping him advance, then jumping ship to work for him, I still stand by the comparison.
We spent eight years having the left compare George Bush to Hitler and then have had more than Brian Baird call anti-health care deform activists brownshirts and the like. Two can play that game.
Notwithstanding all of that, I did misspeak on the Colbert Report as to my explanation. I need apologize for not meeting the appropriate level of truthiness, but I still think calling her Josephine Goebbels is spot on for the aforementioned reasons.
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reiuxcat Thursday, January 7th at 8:27PM EST (link)And the Nazi comparisons still stand, even if you got the names wrong.
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sidburgess Thursday, January 7th at 8:31PM EST (link)For claryfing that. Your ability to step up to the truth, no matter where it lay, is your focal strength in leadership. Keep it up my friend.
they are hard to tell apart
wbb1950 Thursday, January 7th at 8:38PM EST (link)Don’t feel bad Erick. I have the same problem.. The only way I can tell them aparrt is he looks like Ludnedorf and she looks like Ilsa Koch.
For some inexplicable reason he is not welll loved by everyone in ihis district. Here is what one brave marine said to him. And notice his smogesboard reply. I never said that, And even if I did say it I have apologized. It is called arguing in the alternative and it never works because in the end you are arguing against yourself. Watch:
http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/video/youtube_town_hall_meeting_with_u_s_congressman_brian/
Erick-Congratualtions
nelsa (Diary) Thursday, January 7th at 8:44PM EST (link)You just showed the left what a conservative is.
Compare your post with the non-apology of Rick Sanchez on CNN for misquoting Rush Limbaugh on slavery.
http://www.bluegrasspundit.com/2009/10/cnn-refuses-to-apologize-for-phony-rush.html
When we are wrong, we admit it. We do not try to dilute the content of our original statement.
I agree- Linda D. is about a Goebbels as you can get and not wear an armband.
archer52 Thursday, January 7th at 9:03PM EST (link)You shouldn’t apologize. You did well considering the show you were on. Colbert is making tons of cash being a fool. Which shows you how degraded we’ve become.
I saw Linda D. several times and wondered how she slept at night, without a coffin filled with dirt from her homeland.
Now you'll really make the liberals mad.
SoFiMil (Diary) Thursday, January 7th at 9:46PM EST (link)After someone sincerely apologizes, there’s nothing much that can be said in reply.
www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com
Well hey, even a blind squirrel
jacon4 Friday, January 8th at 3:54AM EST (link)is going to find an acorn every now n then. No big deal, everyone makes mistakes.
Erick no need for the hairshirt!
dudette Friday, January 8th at 6:28AM EST (link)an honest mistake! It’s not pre-meditated lying a la Olbermann, the 60 Minutes Guy and all the other pinochios. Thanks for this site, i get my news here.
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sarge324 Friday, January 8th at 6:50AM EST (link)she belongs in a nazi uniform.she hates alot of people,just like a nazi.she and all the lefty loones have that in common,hate every one that dont agree with you.and also lie your head off.
I feel priviliged
bigmaude Friday, January 8th at 7:07AM EST (link)To be associated with folk like you Erick!
A liberal view
lightfootletters Friday, January 8th at 4:47PM EST (link)Both Republican and Democrat, talking heads compare others to NAZIS, that they do not agree with. The Rushman says on a daily basis we must better understand political philosophy and what it means in practice.
Point: As long as we continue to distort what it means to be a communist, fascist, conservative, liberal, libertarian or nazi for our own political purpose and cause….that understanding is never going to happen. We all lose.