...offering young people from around the country an opportunity to discuss the Affordable Care Act and other issues with senior White House officials. White House Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Google+ followers ages 18-35 are eligible to apply to attend this White House event on December 4.
Interested in joining? Sign up for your chance to join other White House social media followers at the #WHYouth social.This anodyne event has me halfway between "good for them" and "so what." But among my usual subjects, it's Hitler. No, really -- The Right Scoop:
White House youth. I think it has a certain ring to it…don’t you?Jim Geraghty of National Review:
It's Springtime for Obama. #WHYouthBryan Preston of PJ Media:
We Have a ‘White House Youth’ Now?... It’s about the cult, not the country, with this administration.(Preston also complains Obama's "hosting this 'summit'" -- Scare quotes! So-called! -- "not to talk about our nation’s history or anything that all Americans could get behind. It’s hosting this summit to transmit its talking points about Obamacare." To appease the right -- always a big concern with Democratic Administrations, alas -- I advise the President to say "Columbus sailed the ocean blue in fourteen hundred and ninety-two" before launching into his explanation of national policy/fascist propaganda.)
It's a sign of the times that, while normal people would be embarrassed to be associated with this nonsense, rightbloggers are actually reveling in this comparison of a bunch of kids visiting the White House to Nazi bund meetings. "The hashtag #WHYouth prompted all sorts of Hitler Youth-related mockery," giggles Breitbart.com. "The Photos ‘shop themselves and the tweets roll on," whoops Mary Katherine Ham at Hot Air. My favorite is RedState's Moe Lane:
Somebody in the Obama administration had an opportunity to say You know, fellows: perhaps we shouldn’t describe this upcoming young person summit thing in a way that could be heard as “White House Youth” – only he or she didn’t, and so here we go again.It's not his fault -- they keep making him compare Obama to Hitler! Just like all those people on the internet who wouldn't be wasting their weekends Photoshopping a toothbrush mustache on Obama if he weren't always going around annexing the Sudetenland and gassing Jews.
I've been joking about this for years, but it's worth noting that Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism has had a powerful effect on modern conservatism -- mainly by lowering the brethren's reading levels, but also by convincing them that slapping a swastika on anything they don't like is analysis, and inspiring a million puke-streams like "Top 50 reasons people keep comparing Obama to Hitler" (and no, that cowboy's not kidding, nor taking his meds, apparently).
It's been going on long enough that I wouldn't surprised if it were damaging the conservative brand. Or maybe just clarifying what it stands for.
UPDATE. Meanwhile, for upmarket conservatives, James Taranto at the Wall Street Journal:
ObamaCare and the Totalitarian MindsetThat's how the toffs do it: Don't say Hitler, use abstractions. Less messy.
"You know, fellows: perhaps we shouldn’t describe this upcoming young
ReplyDeleteperson summit thing in a way that could be heard as 'White House Youth.'"
"Why?"
"Someone might make a Hitler Youth joke. ON THE INTERNET."
"But it would probably be just a bunch of dipshit mouthbreathers like Moe Lane. Why the hell would we care what they think?"
"Good point, #WHYouth it is."
I couldn't get through all of the 50 reasons that Obama's like Hitler, but I noticed that one of them was that he made recess appointments. Oh my God, just about every president in the last 100 years has been Hitler! How could I have missed it!
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile they just hate, hate hate the new Pope - you know, the one who replaced Reactionary Pope Shoes - the one who actually had been a member of the Hitler Youth.
ReplyDeleteif they were really on their game, it'd be all about the jonestown.
ReplyDeleteReason 51:
ReplyDeleteStock market at 16,000, unemployment over 7%...he can't be a Marxist.
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Bryan Preston hits the right note for me with his lament that the President did not invite a bunch of kids into the White House for a lecture series on American history. Because if there's one thing that's proven to be free of discomfiting and divisive themes, it's the study of our nation's history.
ReplyDeleteI was trying to think of what all Americans actually could get behind, and i came up with this: a 10 minute short film of Godzilla fucking Congress to death.
Um, dumbasses, it was the Hitler Youth, not the Reichstag Youth or the Fuhrerbunker Youth.
ReplyDeletei would like to ride on mothra's back with this comment.
ReplyDeleteI'm so old I can remember when the Dow at 6000 were the markets clearly expressing that they did not want Obama as president. Hell, I'm so old I can remember when the Dow at any level was the very measure of presidentin'. Since it has surpassed Bush levels, however, I've not heard a single conservative even mention the stock market. It's like it doesn't even exist anymore, or only exists on those rare occasions when it drops precipitously and is an opportunity to reveal Obama's apparent ineptitude, like some kind of fiscal Brigadoon.
ReplyDeleteThe next thing you know, the government will be recruiting young people into the military! It's a slippery slope, sheeple.
ReplyDeleteBecause no President ever reached out to youth before.
ReplyDeleteI was driving through Troy, NY in the late nineties when I first heard some nutjob talk-radio windbag compare something (I think it might have been medical euthanasia) to both Communist and Nazi ideology in the same breath. Literally. This was, as poker parlance has it, a bit of a tell.
ReplyDeleteHitler=bad=Democrat=socialism=commie=Stalin=Saddam=abortion=bin Laden=death panel=Satan. Inchoate is the only word I can think of that covers their dipshittery, and it's no wonder they hate the idea of evolution: when the biggest difference between yourself and a screechy, poo-flinging monkey is pants it makes the idea of a supernatural creator a lot more attractive.
Too good a fate for a lot of Congressthings, actually.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure they made the same Hitler comparisons for this one:
ReplyDeleteMrs. Bush Focuses "Efforts" on "Advancing" "Education" and "Opportunity" For Young PeopleAnnounced by President Bush in his 2005 State of the Union Address, the "Helping" America's Youth initiative, led by Mrs. Bush, "encourages" Americans to "engage" in "helping" young people become "healthy" and "successful" "adults".
(Scare quotes added for lunacy)
I thought Americorps was already the Hitler Youth. I assume this will be resolved on Obama's Night of Long Knives.
ReplyDeleteAnd when you've outgrown your pants, you've got no choice.
ReplyDeleteThere are too many examples of these guys giving the Roman salute and getting together for freikorps weekends to credit it as anything but projection.
That reminds me of political cartoonist Mike Lester's occasional cartoons which mention the black unemployment rate. Every few months he trots out his newfound concern for black people, but each time the rate is a little lower than the last one.
ReplyDeleteThat reminds me of political cartoonist Mike Lester's occasional cartoons which mention the black unemployment rate. Every few months he trots out his newfound concern for black people, but he apparently doesn't notice that each time the rate is a little lower than the last one.
ReplyDeletegestapofuhrer derrick rose's "torn meniscus" was move one.
ReplyDeleteHistory shows again and again
ReplyDeleteAmerica loves'em some skullfuckin' -Godzilla!
Well, yeah, but Obama looks like he might actually get the youths' interest.
ReplyDeleteif there's one thing that's proven to be free of discomfiting and divisive themes, it's the study of our nation's history.
ReplyDeleteWell, that's so if you use the contards' textbooks.
These guys are like Beavis and Butthead. Their lizard brain--i.e., their brain entire--hears a word, it triggers a snigger-worthy association, and they cop poses like some kind of brain-damaged Oscar Wilde.
ReplyDelete"Heh heh. Youth. They said 'youth,' Beavis."
"Heh heh. Like what's that dude's name."
"Hitler."
"Heh."
It goes much deeper. Even outside of the White House there is a mass youth organization that demands our children serve their country and Help Others!!1! Young boys are taught to make miniature wheeled drones and test them for battle-readiness in pine wood derbies.
ReplyDeleteOh hey, what's this: http://yrnf.com/#sthash.9cW4GmL9.dpbs
ReplyDeleteNot just a summit, a standing organization! And look at that steely militaristic logo! Man, I could compare this to Hitler 50 times, if I was a complete moron.
"This just 'in': 'Obama' 'teaches' 'children' that 'Lincoln' 'freed' the 'slaves.'" LIBRUL INDOCTRINATION!
ReplyDeleteWe need more Americans like you Wrangler. Unite, not divide.
ReplyDeleteThis is why Daydream Nation was obviously a bitchin' song cycle about how awesome it was to be German in the 30's. #SonicYouth
ReplyDeleteIt'd also be really cool if, say, the most popular sports league in America turns the month of November into a long commercial for the military.
ReplyDeleteAnd now there are reports that the new pope goes out at night to eat with the poor. Big whoop.
ReplyDeleteThey used to take Ratz off the wall nearly every night, where he was sleeping upside down, and let him fly off into the dark to let him "feed among the poor".
He could run down a man in his twenties,but couldn't catch any good PR,. Go figure.
I read the comments just to see if someone had make this joke before me. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteFor people who like to shout "USA! USA!" and have slogans like "Country First", they sure don't seem to have much patriotic fervor for American institutions.
ReplyDeleteThe slaves could have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps if Lincoln hadn't gone all nanny state on them, thus cementing "those people's" dependence on government welfare for the rest of time.
ReplyDeleteNow THAT is some fair and balanced history!
Don't stop now, you can probably do it way better. I reached!
ReplyDeleteStudent Sneezes: President Refuses to Say God Bless! Film at Eleven.
ReplyDeleteA Mother's Plea (Nat. Rev. Online)
A Father's Heart is Broken (K'Lo, the Corner)
Why Has God Permitted this To Happen? (World Vision Ministries).
The Republican Party is the party of Lincoln and the neoconfederates!
ReplyDeleteAlso: Why do they want Obama to give history letures? what do they think the purpose of a Great National Leader giving lectures about National Greatness is if it isn't fascistic? I get that After Jonah no one needs to know anything but still--was Hitler alla time lecturing people about HealthCare sign ups on the internet or was he, you know, lecturing them about a mythic Aryan Past and a 1000 year Reich?
ReplyDeleteApply some reverse juju and it's a cunning plot to rehabilitate the fuhrer:
ReplyDelete"You mean Hitler was a democratically-elected, business-friendly centrist technocrat?"
That is some seriously bad political cartooning.
ReplyDeleteI'd be tickled to see how the right would react if it had been Obama slapping the asses of the womens' beach volleyball team, instead of Bush.
ReplyDeleteboth a floorwax and a dessert topping!
ReplyDeletePresident Refuses to Say God Bless!
ReplyDeleteIt's even worse than that: What he did say was "Gesundheit." And you know who else spoke German.
they sure don't seem to have much patriotic fervor for American institutions.
ReplyDeleteHey, that's not fair. They love our national monuments ... at least once they've voted to cut off all funding for them.
I think you'd have to do it online. The only verbal results would be 'gross orgasmic moaning' (Guns, Galt, Reagan, Jesus), and 'harsh screeching/hissing noise' (everything else).
ReplyDeleteBecause every administration's policy decisions should be determined on the basis of how the people who oppose him the most will spin it.
ReplyDeleteAs Colonel Ernesto Bella says, they are all members of an elite paramilitary organization: "Eagle Scouts.".
ReplyDeleteSantorofabulous!
ReplyDeleteWow. You just made me google Pyramid Club. I used to go there to see a friend's band in the mid-90s -- I had no idea that place had so much history! It was a fantastic dive, and I also loved Lucy's about two doors north, and for some reason at Doc Holliday's on the corner I never had to pay for any beers past the first. I miss the East Village.
ReplyDeleteHe's only Hitler domestically; in foreign affairs, he's Neville Chamberlain.
ReplyDeleteIt's always kind of a downer when the season effectively ends and they go into repeats, isn't it? First the ol' Knockout Game and now this. Expect Obama Gay Bathhouse Sex any week now.
ReplyDeleteObamahitlerchamberlain, stop appeasing yourself!
ReplyDeleteIf floorwax and dessert topping make you think "Santorum," remind me never to eat dinner at your house.
ReplyDeleteThey're all things to few people!
ReplyDeleteDon Martin he ain't.
ReplyDeletestop appeasing yourself!
ReplyDeleteIYKWIMAITYD.
Hell, if it weren't for their sudden midcentury course correction to incorporate "Yay, Israel" into their bloodthirsty End Times plans, Hitler's reputation with conservative theocrats wouldn't need rehabilitating.
ReplyDeleteOh, please, make that come true!
ReplyDeleteWhat a disgrace to have a President who plays golf. I can't even bear to watch this drive.
ReplyDeleteWhere have you gone, Saul Alinsky? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
ReplyDeleteExpect Obama Gay Bathhouse Sex any week now.
I wondered why all those e-mails kept offering to fly me down to DC.
Also, "gesundheit" is a SECULAR word that literally translates as "good health". (German health food stores tend to have big signs on them reading "Gesundheit", providing endless hilarity to American tourists.) NO reference to GAWD whatsoever!!!
ReplyDeleteWah-wah-white-house youth!
ReplyDeleteInchoate, or incoherent?
ReplyDeleteThey actually hate the idea of America and Democracy.
ReplyDeleteI like to point out to those fools that Obama has expanded gun rights by allowing guns in National Parks. That usually shuts them up for almost a whole day.
ReplyDeleteOr, at least don't eat off the floor.
ReplyDeleteWait a few years and it will be. At least in their version.
ReplyDeleteNobody expect the Obama Gay Bathouse...
ReplyDeletelet me come in again.
You'll get hair on your palms.
ReplyDeleteSo...what? Is the idea that Obama JUST CAN'T RESIST revealing his super-sekrit Hitler-y tendencies like this? Or is it just that he's so unconsciously, fundamentally Hitler-y that things like just barely sound Hitler-y if you maybe squint a little inevitably reveal themselves as Freudian slips? Really, guys, you have to say what you mean. Otherwise you're just smirking like particularly immature six-year-olds for no comprehensible reason. Oh, wait.
ReplyDeleteIt took me painfully long to understand your joke. Belated, slow golf clap.
ReplyDeleteRegarding #42, Holder said in an August speech to the ABA's annual meeting that the administration was ordering prosecutors to omit quantities in indictments of low-level drug cases to ease overcrowding in federal prisons. This NY Times article goes into detail.
ReplyDeleteMy goal's not to flyspeck your work - just to spread the good news on that point. Of course, during the Cruz Administration, this Hitlerian policy change will be reversed to free federal prosecutors from tyranny.
I appreciate the information! Of course I can't wait until Cruz is president; improving prison conditions is certainly the HItlerian way -- ask anyone who survived the leniency at Dachau -- and it just doesn't feel like America when courts are given leeway to be reasonable.
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ReplyDeleteWhile the summit certainly appears innocuous
ReplyDeleteenough (hence, presumably, the wingnuts' reflexive dash to the Hitler strawman cupboard) one odd thing is the WH's definition of "youth": 18-35 year olds.
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smirking like particularly immature six-year-olds for no comprehensible reason.
ReplyDelete"I just made a conservative blogpost in my pants!"
But that was only to arm the Thug Park Police who refused to let patriots visit their monuments! How soon you forget!
ReplyDeleteYes, I thought they didn't like him being all professorial and suchlike.
ReplyDeleteOh, look, there's no more racism in America!
ReplyDeleteYeah, when you brag that "I have a cartoon in this month's Reader's Digest", like a talentless scrawl in a twice-bankrupt bottom-feeder aimed at Paul Harvey's audience is something to be proud of? You suck.
ReplyDeleteWow! I have GOT to remember to not click on links to right wing whack jobs... I think I gave myself a brain hernia trying to figure out what the hell he was talking about in that '50 Ways Obama is Like Hitler', uh, 'think piece...?
ReplyDeleteI think at this point it'd just be easier if the wingnuts just made a (very short) list of things that weren't Hitlery. Everything else: Hitlery fascism times a million.
ReplyDeleteWell, I do what I can, but I'm only on person and I'm not very complex..
ReplyDeleteHOT
ReplyDeleteI'm still not sure what I'm supposed to get out of this cartoon. Unemployed black guys sit in trees and throw Obama's golf balls back at him because somehow it's Obama's fault that black unemployment is higher than white? Or is the cartoonist just insulting Obama's golf skills?
ReplyDeleteThere was this bizarre story at Gawker about a man who had a diaper fetish and would fool honest to gosh nurses into changing the.
ReplyDeleteWhen wingnuts write shit like this, I feel like we are all that nurse.
I love how the opposite is "krankheit."
ReplyDeleteYeah, I wondered about that, too. And about participants getting fitted with red palm gems as an attendance gift. And the fact that the invite to DC I mentioned above has me staying at some hotel called Carousel, which I can't find on Yelp at all.
ReplyDeleteWell, most people aren't Don Martin, but this guy isn't even Michael Ramirez.
ReplyDeleteAnd an ambulance is a "krankenwagen".
ReplyDeleteThe vast majority of items on "The Top 50 Reasons People Keep Comparing Obama to Hitler" are not even remotely Hitler-like. Going easy on draconian drug laws? Not sufficiently slashing welfare? What kind of lame-ass fascism is that? See, I actually listened to my WW2 veteran grandfather.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's a pretty big fucking tent. And it's constantly filled with the sound of Honest Abe rolling in his grave.
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine the sigh of relief these people must have breathed when Sonic Youth broke up?
ReplyDeleteI should have done likewise.
ReplyDeleteIn the shape of toothbrush moustaches.
ReplyDelete31) He illegally ordered his Department of Justice to stop enforcing the Defense of Marriage Act.
ReplyDeleteThe Nazis were, of course, noted for their fanatical devotion to decriminalizing homosexuality.
For some reason Obama's defenders can't remember what he did during his first two years when he didn't have a gooper house providing him cover for his monumental Wall Street slurping.
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Don't forget a personal favorite, Krankenschwester
ReplyDeletea (very short) list of things that weren't Hitlery.
ReplyDelete(1) Advocating for wars of aggression.
(2) Hostility towards semitic followers of an Abrahamic religion.
(3) Using an intransigent popular minority to render the existing government dysfunctional in order to seize more power for one's faction.
(4) Demonization of "leftist" political opponents.
(5) Promoting the fusion of church and state.
(6) Hysterical concerns about domestic "racial purity."
(7) Maximizing the cozy relationship between government and big business.
(8) Highly-coordinated deployment of shamelessly mendacious propaganda.
(9) Setting the Reichstag on fire as a false flag operation.
What kind of lame-ass fascism is that?
ReplyDeleteThe kind you get from people who back in 2004 were thrusting their right arms into the air as they took the "Bush pledge."
'harsh screeching/hissing noise'
ReplyDeleteSKREEE!
Troll on, sister! It's working perfectly.
ReplyDeleteDo not forget Obama's Kristallnacht too - in the middle of the night his blueshirts will rampage through the streets destroying God fearing Republican businesses then take over The Weekly Standard
ReplyDeleteIn fact, if he were any worse, he'd be Glenn McCoy.
ReplyDeleteWell he'd for sure have the book the right side up - that's a start
ReplyDeleteBoth - in their minds they've barely begun :)
ReplyDeleteRumor has it he prefered young boys vital fluids.
ReplyDeleteThose conservative haters have compared the Obama administration to nazis so much that it's lost all impact. But hey, at the end of the day bringing in young'uns to the white house to talk politics is probably a try at getting them to go democrat. But trying to turn people to one side of the other isn't new, and to say that Hitler was the only one to try it is astoundingly idiotic.
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