So Now Obama is a Nazi According To Clinton Campaign
posted in Politics | | | View blog reactions | Print This PostThe Clinton Machine is at it again. As I demonstrated in Tears, Race Baiting, Verbal Jabs, and Proxies: The Clinton Strategy , Hillary Clinton is employing a strategy where she will send out her surrogates to make outrages attacks, and then disavow them afterwards; yet she gets the attack out there.
Clinton Surrogate Compares Obama Ad to Nazi March
Fri Feb 1, 2:23 PM ET
The Nation — [Updated below] On a media conference call organized by the Hillary Clinton campaign today, Clinton surrogate Len Nichols compared an Obama health care ad to Nazis. The ad features a couple at a kitchen table, which some Clinton supporters said was reminiscent of “the famous insurance-industry-financed ‘Harry and Louise’ ads against the original Clinton plan,” as The Politico reports, and Mr. Nichols said it “personally outraged” him. He continued:
It is as outrageous as having Nazis march through Skokie, [Illinois]… I just find it disgusting that this kind of imagery is being used to attack the only way to get to universal coverage.
Nichols, who worked with the Clinton health care task force, was essentially likening himself and Clinton supporters to the Holocaust survivors who were offended by a proposed Nazi march through their town in 1977. The Politico reports that at the end of the call, a Clinton campaign spokesman “disavowed the Nazi reference, saying the campaign didn’t think it was appropriate, though he acknowledged the passions the issue stirs.”
Accusing political opponents of Nazism is an outrageous smear. Raising the specter of a Nazi march in response to a health care mailer that evokes the insurance industry is so absurd, it would be hard to take the attack seriously, were it not launched from a high profile national campaign conference call in this crucial stretch of the presidential race. And political observers know, of course, that the Clinton Campaign regularly arranges opportunities for surrogates to launch these kind of smears, which are later followed up with apologies. (See: Bob Johnson, Bill Shaheen, Bob Kerrey, and Francine Torge, to name the most recent offenders.) For his part, Nichols did not immediately return a call requesting further comment.
For that updated portion with the Nichols apology, read here
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