Via Newsbusters' P.J. Gladnick, left-wing talk show host Bill Press compares the town-hall protesters to Nazis in his latest column:
Taking a page right out of a Nazi playbook, organizers bus in professional protestors and arm them with instructions on how to take over meetings, shut down discussion, shout over any pro-health care reform speakers, and then post video of the resulting chaos on YouTube. It's mob rule, pure and simple.
I thought that Nancy Pelosi might have made a slip of the tongue when she dishonestly and disingenuously said that townhall-protesters are "carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on healthcare."
Obviously the speaker of the House's words matter more than those of a left-wing talk-show host, but it's amazing that Bill Press actually sat down, thought those words, wrote them down, and sent them in for publication. And remember, if you buy Harry Reid's ridiculous talking point, Bill Press will become the "leader" of the Democratic party if they lose the White House and Congress.
In case you haven't already done so, read Mary Katharine Ham's takedown of the left's manufactured story that capitalist dogs are directing the masses to harass Democrats at town-hall meetings.
Update: The ADL emails THE WEEKLY STANDARD with a written statement from Abraham Foxman:
"Bill Press has every right to take issue with groups opposed to health care reform, but he is wrong to compare their tactics to those of the Nazis. "Whether it comes from Limbaugh or Press, from the left or the right, Nazi comparisons in the context of the health care debate are completely inappropriate."