Conservatives have strenuously denied that there is any anti-Semitism on display by anti-health reform protesters at town hall meetings nationwide — despite all the evidence to the contrary. Last week, Las Vegas radio station KDWN AM720 sponsored a “contentious” town hall, emceed by conservative morning show host Heidi Harris. At the event, local news stations were interviewing an Israeli man who was praising the “fantastic” “national health care” in Israel. During his remarks, a woman yelled out, “Heil Hitler!”
Thanks Mister Justin.
This healthcare stuff is getting ridiculous. I like the fake crying that woman does at the end.. nice touch.
As far as I know having national healthcare was not a key pillar of the Hitler Administration.
Maybe if we were talking about anti-smoking campaigns.. those are very nazi-esque.
There are many frustrated angry people who want to blame someone…not unlike what happened in Germany prior to Hitler’s rise to power. We do need a leader we can trust who has the good of the United States at heart. There are those who see our decisiveness as an opportunity to control us. Our greed based democracy may fail.
Trying to provide health care to 50 million uninsured Americans is exactly like Hitler murdering 6 million Jews.
Not.
Wow, just wow! I really wish these old right wing crazies would just stop living.
Where or WHERE is AlfredENewman and his budding NAZI comment…
um…she’s alluding to Obama as Hilter, not being anti-semetic. She’s an idiot and wackjob, but certainly not anti-semitic or a Nazi. Is it anti-semitic to call someome a Nazi?
6 Angus,
Was Obama at the conference? Nope.
Yeah, here’s a story about Israel’s wonderful health care system…
Excerpt from: http://tinyurl.com/qq392y
On August 14, at 9 PM, Israeli television station, Channel Ten, broke all convention and exposed the ugliest secret of Israel’s Labor Zionist founders; the deliberate mass radiation poisoning of nearly all Sephardi youths.
The expose began with the presentation of a documentary film called, 100,000 Radiations, and concluded with a panel discussion moderated by TV host Dan Margalit, surprising because he is infamous for toeing the establishment line.
I wouldn’t have seder with that hater.
That woman should be locked up in a looney bin.
Would Israel have such a wonderful health care system if it had to get by without the massive foreign aid it gets from the U.S. ?
Our national discussion has been reduced to dropping Hitler insults, 4chan should be proud!
As a conservative whose opinion differs from this gentleman’s views, I sincerely apologize to him for the lack of respect this woman showed. This is NOT how we Americans should hold discourse, and I commend him for showing restraint in the face of pure ignorance and hatred.
In fact, the Nazi’s were very much involved in National health care. One of the first Nazi laws, passed July 14, 1933, was the “Law for the Prevention of Progeny of Hereditary Disease,” intended to “consolidate” social and health policies in the German population and prohibit the right of reproduction for persons defined as “genetically inferior.” After 1933, the connection between the theory and practice of politicized medicine advocated by many in Weimar Germany became actual in Nazi Germany.
While no one is suggesting that the US Federal Gov’t would murder Jews, the Federal Gov’t should not be involved in determining how we as a sociery will receive health care. If we involve Gov’t bureaucrats in health care decisions, then we will be giving up substantial freedom. The German people did this when they brought the Nazis to power. Most of them didn’t care because, it wasn’t their freedom that was being lost. We must defend the freedom of all citizens of the US.
13,
then you are for dismantling Medicare and the VA hospital system?
#13 Irrationalist: the Federal Gov’t should not be involved in determining how we as a sociery [sic] will receive health care.
Why is that? Is it better that insurance company bureaucrats deny you healthcare rather than a government bureaucrat? Will you feel more free as you die from a treatable disease if you’ve been rejected by a corporate bureaucrat instead of a government bureaucrat?
My point behind the sarcasm is that rationing of healthcare goes on right now (by the aforementioned corporate bureaucrats) and it will continue in the future, because there isn’t enough money in the world to treat everyone for everything.
There will be less rationing, however, if we have more money going to actual healthcare and less to Big Insurance’s corporate profits.
i swear this guys are a joke. They love their freedoms, where the fck where they when bush was truly taking things from them. Better yet these people don not care to have a discussion, they want to prevent it.
I’m sorry did I miss the sign on her that said conservitive republican? For all I know she is a jew hateing democrate that only wants to start trouble. The two goons that stepped in front of her to protect her sure look like SEIOU labor goons. Why do Democrates hate so much.
You see people you need to look at all the sides of a issue. You have no idea who that woman is and what her motives are. Unless there is more back story don’t just assume she is republican or democrat. In my eyes she is just crazy and rude.
#17 wildcatbn (might want to invest in a spellchecker to avoid sounding like a raving “moran”)
The man was stating his support of universal healthcare. Someone called him a Nazi. Since the man was Jewish, I’m gonna go way out on a limb and guess that it wasn’t a compliment. So the person calling him a Nazi was against universal healthcare. Republicans and “conservatives” are against universal healthcare. So, again, going way out on a limb here, we’re assuming that the namecaller was a conservative.
If you need that written out in brightly colored crayons, let me know.
I think the point that the Administration has TOTALLY missed is that EVERYONE is going to be emotional about their life, health, and well-being. The fact that they’re scorning people about this puts them in an very unfavorable light, IMHO. The House and Senate Reps are being as rude as the protestors, just look ar Sheila Jackson Lee’s antics with her cell phone while the town hall attendee talked about her cancer.
13 Rationalist,
Did you know that in single payer / government sponsored health care systems, doctors and hospitals make the health care choices? And they don’t get calls from the insurance company saying “Yeah, you’re not allowed to perform that procedure.”
#6 Meathead
She didn’t call him a Nazi. She said Heil Hitler.
# 13 Rationalist
Too compare the “Law for the Prevention of Progeny of Hereditary Disease” to healthcare shows how uneducated and delusional you are. That law had nothing to do with healthcare. It was law passed to “purify” the German population. It was basically included forced sterilization and Euthanasia. Can you point to the part of ANY of the house and senate bills that include those things? I would love to see what documents you are misinterpreting to arrive at your asinine conclusion.
#20 You’re correct, and they also missed how much the Insurance Companies and their paid flacks were going to spew lies and disinformation to get the people all worked up.
Actually national health care was a priority for the Hitler Administration. Everyone who was deemed detrimental to the health of the nation were ..um.. given ..um.. “special treatment”. Yeah, that’s the ticket! Just like the “end of life” boards that senior citizens will face under ObamaCare.
Government in health care makes you a Nazi? Like Canada, Sweden and England? Er….ok. Unlike the angry white conservative Republican opponents who also want to “do something” about the gays, blacks, Jews, foreigners, etc. Picking between the dumb angry white conservatives, and Canada…I wonder who’s more like the Nazi brown shirts? Who’s more likely to beat and kill a “degenerate” (Nazi term) gay man, the Canadians and Swedish, or these angry “conservatives”. Hmmm….I wonder. Hmmm….
Did anyone notice that she’s wearing an Israeli Defense Forces shirt?!? WTF?
He comes off as a patriotic Israeli, she comes off as a piece of shit.
If she wanted in on the conversation, that was the wrong way to do it!
Here 21 years and no health insurance? Just another slug who believes someone else should be responsible and pay for his health care.
Bet he pays for his own home and car insurance but somehow can’t be bothered with his health insurance.
I have little doubt that the $8000 dollar bill he claims to owe will be passed on for someone else to pay.
# 17 wildcatbn
Perhaps you didn’t bother to find out more independently. She describes herself as a Republican then a conservative in another video interview that took place before this little outburst.
So yes SHE IS A REPUBLICAN!!!!
#19
Hmmm… getting a cell phone call vs. calling a Jew a Nazi? I’m not for either… but I don’t think they are equivalent.
I’m wondering is the Republican leaders with functioning brain cells are happy with this town hall meeting crap. The right is going off the rails. Is this really the way to get the party back on track? It feels more like these people are ready to storm the White House and string up Obama.
#26 Dr Dodd
He didn’t say he never had healthcare dumbass. Only an ignorant right winger could make that leap of logic. The only thing that can be certain is that he didn’t have it when he went to the hospital. Maybe he has a chronic condition that cost $4000 a month to insure and missed a payment or better yet maybe no insurance company will accept him into a policy.
More likely the woman was a SEIU acting as an agent provocateur trying to make conservatives look bad. They bus in those SEIUs to the counter the populous grassroots people who are against nationalized healthcare.