Tennesee Rep Cohen Nazi Rant

[Mr Roxy]

Tennesee Rep Cohen Nazi Rant#1

Posted: 1/20/11 at 12:16am

It appears from his comments he did not get the message about civility .Maybe Obama should remind him .

I cannot really say I am surprised over his remarks

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[Ziggurat]

Tennesee Rep Cohen Nazi Rant#2

Posted: 1/20/11 at 2:42am

I cannot really say I am surprised over his remarks

Or offended.

[Q]

Tennesee Rep Cohen Nazi Rant#2

Posted: 1/20/11 at 3:19am

For those who don't have the news hardwired, here's a link.

The fact that it's from FOX might only be coincidence - I make no claim that Roxy heard it there.

It's up to him to decide if he wants to share where he gets his info, like it's up to him to provide a link.
Link to article.

[tazber]

Tennesee Rep Cohen Nazi Rant#3

Posted: 1/20/11 at 7:38am

I think the GOP's symbolic repeal vote is completely absurd.

I also think that Rep Cohen's comment is equally absurd. The fact that he's Jewish makes it even worse.



So, politics as usual then?

....but the world goes 'round

[tazber]

Tennesee Rep Cohen Nazi Rant#4

Posted: 1/20/11 at 7:45am

And since no one posted this yesterday I'll share another outlandish comment from an elected leader:

Alabama Republican Gov. Robert Bentley is kicking off his first term in office with a bit of controversy, telling a church audience Monday that he only considers Christians to be his "brothers and sisters."


Link

....but the world goes 'round

[Mister Matt]

Tennesee Rep Cohen Nazi Rant#5

Posted: 1/20/11 at 10:26am

"Now I will have to say that, if we don't have the same daddy, we're not brothers and sisters," he told parishioners at a Baptist church in Montgomery Monday shortly after being sworn in. "So anybody here today who has not accepted Jesus Christ as their savior, I'm telling you, you're not my brother and you're not my sister, and I want to be your brother."

That's ok, Bentley. Jesus is pretty pissed that you made anti-Christian remarks like that in a church, so it sounds like you're going to Hell anyway. But we thank you for your honesty.

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

[AC126748]

Tennesee Rep Cohen Nazi Rant#6

Posted: 1/20/11 at 10:27am

Bentley was my colleague's dermatologist back in the eighties. She likes to say that he froze her "agnostic warts".

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[Unknown User]

Tennesee Rep Cohen Nazi Rant#7

Posted: 1/20/11 at 1:00pm

Yes, Cohen should not have invoked Nazis.

[madbrian]

Tennesee Rep Cohen Nazi Rant#8

Posted: 1/20/11 at 1:13pm

Isn't there a rule that whoever invokes 'Nazi' or 'Hitler' first loses? If not, there should be. If this were a Republican, Olbermann and/or Maddow would be all over him for his breach of the unofficial new civility. They should take this moron to task, but I wouldn't count on it.

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

[orangeskittles]

Tennesee Rep Cohen Nazi Rant#9

Posted: 1/20/11 at 1:41pm

Considering Republicans have spent the past 2 years drawing Hitler mustaches on Obama's picture, I'd say a [pretty accurate] reference to propaganda techniques is nothing in comparison.

Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how

[ghostlight2]

Tennesee Rep Cohen Nazi Rant#10

Posted: 1/20/11 at 1:51pm

Godwin's law, madbrian

[madbrian]

Tennesee Rep Cohen Nazi Rant#11

Posted: 1/20/11 at 1:53pm

As people like Jon Stewart and President Obama have articulated, it's difficult to justify working with a person or group after you have pubclicly demonized them. It's wrong when the Right does it, and it's wrong when the left does it.

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

[YouWantitWhen????]

Tennesee Rep Cohen Nazi Rant#12

Posted: 1/20/11 at 2:41pm

FWIW I have heard criticism of him from Stephanie Miller and others. I don't know whether Maddow or Olbermann has said anything.

As MB says, it is wrong for either side to do this.

[Unknown User]

Tennesee Rep Cohen Nazi Rant#13

Posted: 1/20/11 at 3:07pm

Stephanie Miller did about 20 minutes on how stupid this remark was this morning.

By the way - I missed Glenn Beck last night- what did he say about Rush Limbaugh's racist mocking of Hu Jin Tao? I am sure he had PLENTY to say since he really hated when Rosie O'Donnell did a similar thing.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Tennesee Rep Cohen Nazi Rant#14

Posted: 1/20/11 at 4:02pm

Somehow I have the feeling that whoever is in power is going to be called Hitler at some point or another. I heard plenty of my liberal-minded friends compare Bush and his regime to Hitler and the Nazis plenty of time, and the few very conservative people I have an acquaintanceship with certainly don't hesitate to fling the name at Obama either.

It's an insult/piece of mud slinging that will probably never go away, sad to say.

[Unknown User]

Tennesee Rep Cohen Nazi Rant#15

Posted: 1/20/11 at 4:16pm

Well look! He apologized already! All better.
Sorry!