It wouldn’t be election day if we didn’t have some attempts at good old-fashioned election day influencing by Democrat operatives, a/k/a the media.
Have you ever connected the dots on the absurd claim that Donald Trump is Hitler reborn? Conservative pundit and filmmaker Matt Walsh made a salient observation. All of the Nazi and Fascist merch is displayed by cultists on the left. All the swastika paraphernalia has been purchased by leftists and brought to leftist rallies. I know, weird.
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Stolen valor clown and current VP nominee Tim Walz claimed there was a “direct parallel” between Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden and a Nazi rally held almost 100 years ago. Trump’s rally was attended by a Holocaust survivor. It had multiple Israeli flags in the rafters. Weird how Nazi rallies have changed. “Jews for Nazis” was not on my bingo card. It’s a canard, of course, but willing media will conflate. That is what they do.
Now it’s election day. It’s time for media hacks to make one last attempt to influence the election. What better way than to publish an article about… HITLER and (and maybe Trump):
One In Five Americans Do Not Think Hitler Was All Bad: Poll
Newsweek, a rag purchased for one dollar, published the following on Election Day 2024:
Hitler has become an unexpected issue in the 2024 election. In October, The Atlantic alleged that former President Donald Trump praised aspects of the dictator’s leadership, saying that while serving as president, Trump once said: “I need the kind of generals that Hitler had. People who were totally loyal to him, that follow orders.”
John Kelly, Trump’s White House chief of staff from 2017 to 2019, told the New York Times that Trump said more than once, “You know, Hitler did some good things, too.”
Trump’s campaign denied the accusation. In a statement sent to Newsweek, Trump campaign adviser Alex Pfeiffer said: “This is absolutely false. President Trump never said this.”
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If one clicks on the story, the lede isn’t a sentence; it is a video of… Trump. And Hitler hasn’t “become an unexpected issue in the 2024 election.” His name being bandied about by the Democrat media organs this fall was fully expected and planned.
The Atlantic article was a lazy hit piece by a well-worn hack, Jeffrey Goldberg. My buddy Brad Slager took out Goldberg’s garbage:
Our Neil McCabe laid out nicely the issues with the Goldberg hit attempt, and you should read it, filled with updates. Goldberg resorted to what is tried practice with him, as he mirrors his previous slovenly work in the last general election. That was when he delivered the entirely flawed story of Trump allegedly bashing dead service members while on a trip to France. That was a claim made back in 2018 that had already been refuted, but Goldberg reissued the accusation and eventually was proven false, as named individuals – including Trump opponents – came out to declare that it never happened.
Newsweek is more subtle. It’s “soft” influencing – linking Goldberg without mentioning that Goldberg is a partisan hack and that The Atlantic’s “anonymous source” hit piece was debunked is a neat piece of hackery.
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Newsweek published its “Some Americans (more Republicans than Democrats) think Hitler wasn’t so bad” article because it’s election day, and the left needs one last try to paint Trump in Nazi black and red.
It’s a “when did you stop beating your wife” bad-faith insinuation. It is a not-at-all subtle effort to influence voters.
Newsweek – the rag sold for a dollar is showing what it is worth.