"Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel criticized a Teabagger protester in Washington, DC this week who held up a sign showing dead bodies from the Dachau concentration camp stacked in a pile, and compared this to the Democrats' health care reform plan. Here are a few of the Teabaggers' responses to Weisel, posted on Politico:"
- Steven Perez
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"Rothschilds nothing! Everyone knows that Obama is George Soros sock puppet. Wasn't Soros Jewish once upon a time? May the Schwartz be with you."
- Steven Perez
"The jews need to clam up and accept the fact that they are in a Chritian country."
- Steven Perez
"This hollowcost thing is totally overblown by the jewish."
- Steven Perez
"Eli Wiesel should just go back to Indonesia. I don't see him condemnig the terrorist shooter at Fort Hood."
- Steven Perez
"Elie is a whiner. She should stop her whining. You didn't not complane when the libs were calling Bush Hitler."
- Steven Perez
From the look of these remarks, it's clear that hate is making these teabag people as stupid as they are mean.
- Dennis Jernberg
And the Holocaust deniers are already coming out too, alas...
- Dennis Jernberg
Hey, if they went after Max Cleland, a veteran and an amputee, then there's no way they're gonna take any guff from some Jew. God, these people make make ill sometimes.
- Steven Perez
I met Wiesel once, he spoke at my high school. he was incredibly compelling. the people quoted above make me sad for my country.
- Bren -- feeling merry
A couple decades of de-investment in education is bearing fruit.
- Spidra Webster
[facepalm] I'd ask when the 'baggers will ever learn, but I think they skipped class.
- Bill Sodeman
Spidra, listening to my mom and dad talk about politics back when JFK was prez, nothing has changed. Idiots are still idiots. For example, my mom taught school in Mississippi. On the day JFK was assassinated, there was massive cheering at the (all white segregated) school - amongst staff and students.
- Chrimmus Tad
Us vs "Them" that awful amorphous them... Always a zero sum game and the "uses"is always behind and deeply darkly bitter about it
- WarLord
That was as painful to read as I'm sure it could have been to experience for Mr. Wiesel. Fortunately, he probably doesn't hang out on the internet much.
- Helen Sventitsky
I'm sure it's always been around, Tad. I just think it's increasing.
- Spidra Webster
Think of the horrific Deja Vu for Wiesel reading teabaggers is like verbal reliving of Crystal Nacht
- WarLord
This is not the first and unfortunately not the last time Mr. Wiesel heard such remarks. Being the strong person he is, he will never be deterred.
- Amit Morson
not defending anyone, but I checked all the links out from your blog and I don't see any actual anyone saying any of what you've posted...only people typing what they've heard other people typing about what someone supposedly said. I'd really like to be informed, can you help by posting anything that isnt second or third hand sourcing?
- jeff hammond
Dear jeff if you know, this comments are the second or third hand, then you know the the hottest news is what
- Scorpio
I certainly understand not wanting to accept things 2nd & 3rd hand - which is why I made a point of looking those things up myself before posting my blog - but gah, some of that shit you just can't make up.
- ProsePetals (aka Denise)
i look at this comments but i didn't see the copy of them here, but if you say that, i accept it
- Scorpio
and think about it, if some haven't any good answer and said some shit things about Holocaust, he can't be GOOD gay! maybe he's follow the wrong way
- Scorpio
Scorpio - the comment was "voted down" but you can still click into it. It is by some person who calls self "In memory of Noor Almalek"... What is says is: "How about we round them up, load them on cattle cars and ship them off to Obama’s re-education camps? Maybe a quick shower before the crematorium?"
- ProsePetals (aka Denise)
i see, he's answer it to who?? it couldn't be a deferential answer!!
- Scorpio
from IM
It was in response to a "Fred"... "Fred says: That’s over the line. Someone has to pay for this, one way or another" -- who was responding, it appears, to the actual TP posting in general.
- ProsePetals (aka Denise)
you know, we should think about what we say! but this person, i not sure about his answer!!
- Scorpio
from IM
Agreed, too...how does one pay? Who pays? meh, but I understand (I think) that Fred was just venting frustration. "In memory of Noor Almalek"'s suggestion was vile.
- ProsePetals (aka Denise)
Jeff: to your original point on not finding the comments there anymore, if one follows the link to the blog in question, one will find that the comments have a "report abuse" button next to each link. And Politico is not the sort of blog that would keep egregiously abusive comments on their site for very long.
- Steven Perez
yes yes, Who Pays? you know dear, when a person nothing know about an a abject and then see some one or in some place people talking about this abject he came & said some thing true or false, because this person thing now his the professor and he can said every thing want!!
- Scorpio
from IM
Scorpio: what the heck are you talking about?
- Steven Perez
thanks about your nice asking!! about complaisance in comment!! this should be very shiny!
- Scorpio
Allow me, Steven. Scorpio is saying that yes yes, Who Pays? you know dear, when a person nothing know about an a abject and then see some one or in some place people talking about this abject he came & said some thing true or false, because this person thing now his the professor and he can said every thing want!!
- Christopher Harley
Thanks, Mr. Harley. I got that part. :P
- Steven Perez
from IM
*chortling @ Mr. Harley* -- Steven, as I understand Scorpio, his suggestion is that both "Fred" and ""In memory of Noor Almalek" comments (within the ThinkProgress threaded comments) were out of line -- I might be misinterpreting his meaning, but that is how I understood him. In the sense of of the abject/professor comment - it seems to me a rhetorical question/statement about the different perspectives on history, and how to explain abstracts to people who don't understand it from a first-hand perspective and would otherwise exploit it (using education as an excuse, in the context of the professor who can say whatever s/he wants to young neophyte minds). At least that is how I'm translating his attempt to convey his thoughts into English. I could be wrong, though. (I have the impression he's one of the good guys, though. ;))
- ProsePetals (aka Denise)