California Democratic Party chair John Burton is an expert on Nazi propaganda. Just ask him:
Charlotte – Greetings from the California delegation breakfast at the DNC where before he had a cup of coffee Democratic Party Chair John Burton – much like his ol’ palGuv Jerry Brown once did – just compared the Republicans to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, for “telling the big lie,” a reference to several falsehoods GOP VP nominee Paul Ryan recently told.
“They lie and they don’t care if people think they lie… Joseph Goebbels – it’s the big lie, you keep repeating it,” Burton said Monday before the Blake Hotel breakfast. He said Ryan told “a bold-faced lie and he doesn’t care that it was a lie. That was Goebbels, the big lie.”
Reminded that Brown drew heat for comparing the messaging of Meg Whitman’s 2010 GOP gubernatorial campaign to Goebbels, he said sarcastically, “(Bleep) that’s right, she won the election!
Burton shrugged at Brown getting in trouble. “He won it big. Goddam he was in trouble.”
Burton is incensed by the distortions uttered by Ryan, who he referred to as a “horse’s ass.” (Although, as you’ll see in the below video, the Chairman is a bit off on his facts, too. Then-Sen. Obama was a candidate when he made comments about a GM plant.)
There’s a difference between lying and embellishing, Burton said. “Everybody who has run for office has embellished – except for me of course,” said the longtime politician. But if you can’t trust someone on the basic facts, he said, how can you trust them to tell you the truth on Medicare?
(Interesting coincidence: Brown originally dropped his Goebbels reference when he bumped into KCBS reporter Doug Sovern while jogging. It was Sovern — again– who was interviewing Burton with me when Goebbels surfaced again. We’ll be posting Doug’s full audio of the interview shortly.)
This is the same John Burton who resigned from Congress in 1982 due to his addiction to cocaine and alcohol. This is the same John Burton whose Congressman brother Phil may have been one of the nastiest politicians who ever graced the DC political scene. Calling anyone a “horse’s ass” triggers a desire to throw back the age old adage, “Takes one to know one” regardless of how juvenile it sounds. After all, if you’re going to make a high school comparison of Republicans to Nazis, may as well throw a sophomoric come back in his face.
We are apparently going to continuously hear the word “lie” as it is applied to Republicans this week in Charlotte. What we won’t hear is an explanation for why what Romney and Ryan are saying is a lie. This also was a favorite Goebbels trick: accuse the opponent of lying loudly and often when what they are saying is the God’s honest truth.
To be sure, Romney-Ryan are not telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth about welfare and Medicare. The work requirement is not being eliminated — just made voluntary if states seek a waiver. And the $716 billion in Medicare cuts are also in the Ryan budget and, to be technically correct, was not being used to “pay” for Obamacare. They are, as Burton points out, “embellishing” the truth. But calling the charges a lie is ridiculous and saying that the GOP is using Nazi tactics is beyond the bounds of decency.
Yep — that’s John Burton all over.
You know, they can throw my rear in jail, but I just had all I intend to take. Let’s have a civil war if this is the way it’s going to be. They don’t like us, we don’t like them. They took over the culture, and we can just take over, period. If they would like a different solution, fine, but they should not kid themselves anymore that the way they are trying to do business is long-term sustainable.
They’re arrogant lying SOBs who intend to introduce a little Progressive authoritarian police state that will run the country into the ground. Nuts to that.
It will come to that. In the end it always does. Human history has taught us that. There’s too much we disagree on. There’s too much hatred. There’s just too much.
I no longer believe the union can be saved.
I do recall that Herr Goebbels ultimately worked for a failed politician.
History repeats itself? You bet – all the time.
to John Burton,
Project Much?
Attaching and detaching morality according to one’s ethnicity makes liberal’s the logical sharer of any intellectual and philosophical space with Goebbels, not conservative thought.
It is the HuffPo’s Dunn who said Carmel is “frighteningly white.”
It is PBS and Henry Gates, Jr., editor of The Root, who had a show where, when famous and liberal participants were given DNA results, their downcast faces were in exact relation to how much they found out they were whiter than they wanted.
It is Elizabeth Warren who craved the innate nobility of high cheekbones.
It is the black political and academic Left who routinely suggest groups which are too white is a bad thing and who assume a moral supremacy in the arena of race.
It is Eric Holder who has turned the DOJ into an arm of the NAACP and SPLC.
It is Pres. Obama who spent 20 years in a racist cult and whose memoirs are full of references to race.
– is why California is dead. Be more like California, America.
No, Rick, you’re wrong about Welfare reform;
http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/02/credulous-fact-checkers-fall-for-20-scam/
And they are not ‘cuts’ they are reductions in the rate of growth,
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/03/video-obama-promises-janesville-that-plant-will-thrive-will-be-here-for-another-100-years/
Actually, it was Hitler himself who pointed out in Mein Kampf that the big lie works. This is because hardly anyone tells big lies,and they assume that other people don’t, either, least of all the country’s leaders. So when a political leader tells a big lie repeatedly, it is accepted as the truth by the people.
Lying? Wait until you get a load of this seance the democrats call a convention. They cannot possibly tell the truth about the last 5 years that the dems have controlled the house and senate and the last 31/2 with Obama.