“A guy who gets fired and humiliated in the press can lose a lot of confidence,” Ailes says. Calling Williams “a pure liberal,” Ailes says he wanted to compensate the pundit for his losses because he was “mad” and “I didn’t want him to have to call his wife and say we lost money.”
Then he turned his sights on NPR executives.
“They are, of course, Nazis. They have a kind of Nazi attitude. They are the left wing of Nazism. These guys don’t want any other point of view. They don’t even feel guilty using tax dollars to spout their propaganda. They are basically Air America with government funding to keep them alive.”
It’s hardly surprising that Ailes would defend Williams or castigate NPR. But trotting out such Third Reich rhetoric seems, shall we say, disproportionate to the situation. NPR spokeswoman Anna Christopher says only that “we will let Mr. Ailes’ words speak for themselves.”
he has since sort of apologized:
On Thursday, Ailes apologized to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for describing NPR brass as “Nazis.” He wrote: “I was of course ad-libbing and should not have chosen that word but I was angry at the time because of NPR’s willingness to censor Juan Williams for not being liberal enough... My now considered opinion 'nasty, inflexible bigot' would have worked better.” Abraham H. Foxman, ADL’s national director and a Holocaust survivor, responded: “I welcome Roger Ailes apology, which is as sincere as it is heartfelt. Nazi comparisons of this nature are clearly inappropriate and offensive. While I wish Roger had never invoked that terminology, I appreciate his efforts to immediately reach out and to retract his words before they did any further harm.”
NPR took sharp exception to the latest Ailes statement, with spokeswoman Dana Davis Rehm saying: “We are disappointed that Mr. Ailes directed his apology only to the ADL, and amazed that his statement substituted a new insult to replace his original scurrilous remark. This ongoing name-calling is offensive to NPR, its member stations and the 27 million listeners who rely on us."
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This kind of thing disgusts me. To me, it is an insult to those who either suffered at the hands of, or were killed by the real Nazis.
At the same time it happens so much that the thing that strikes me about this is the choice to use a Nazi comparison, rather than the more common socialist/communist one.
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Salieri wrote:This kind of thing disgusts me. To me, it is an insult to those who either suffered at the hands of, or were killed by the real Nazis.
At the same time it happens so much that the thing that strikes me about this is the choice to use a Nazi comparison, rather than the more common socialist/communist one.
For a number of right-wing Americans, there is no discernible difference between socialists/communists and fascists/Nazis. In spite of the fact that both groups hated each other with undying passion.
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I am familiar with that tendency, and it's another thing that annoys me, though I do not intend to go into that. While I am a foreigner, it seems to me that the slur of socialist/communist is significantly more common in usage than that of Nazi. Considering the history of the US, this is not surprising. It probably have been easier for Roger Ailes to use socialist comparisons than Nazi ones. If he had done so, he probably would not have needed to even do the weak attempt at an apology that he did. So why did he use Nazi?
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Salieri wrote:I am familiar with that tendency, and it's another thing that annoys me, though I do not intend to go into that. While I am a foreigner, it seems to me that the slur of socialist/communist is significantly more common in usage than that of Nazi. Considering the history of the US, this is not surprising. It probably have been easier for Roger Ailes to use socialist comparisons than Nazi ones. If he had done so, he probably would not have needed to even do the weak attempt at an apology that he did. So why did he use Nazi?
Calling them a Nazi makes more sense (as it were) when you're trying to portray someone as an uncompromising tyrant.
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Nazi name dropping is so fucking shameless. It trivialises one of the worst moments in human history. They might as well flip out their dicks and piss all over a world war II victims memorial. It would probably be less offensive than calling everybody who disagrees with you (even in the slightest) a Nazi .
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bobalot wrote:Nazi name dropping is so fucking shameless. It trivialises one of the worst moments in human history. They might as well flip out their dicks and piss all over a world war II victims memorial. It would probably be less offensive than calling everybody who disagrees with you (even in the slightest) a Nazi .
Indeed.
The right loves to point out the 'National Socialist' in the party name while ignoring the corporatist power grab that actually occurred.
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