Ethics

Farah: Obama Wants to Kill All Jews!

By Ed Brayton

Wow. Even for the Worldnutdaily, their recent output has pushed the boundaries of the wingnutty and the downright batshit insane. Joseph Farah has a column that actually claims that Obama seeks to finish Hitler's final solution and wipe out the Jews. His evidence for this? Well there is none, of course. But wait till you see his pathetic attempt to invent some. Speaking of Obama's remarks while visiting Buchenwald, he writes:

The speech was delivered at Buchenwald, one of the most notorious concentration camps operated by Nazis, a place where some 56,000 people, mostly Jews, were murdered in what Adolf Hitler hoped would be the "final solution" to the "Jewish problem."

This is the shockingly unbelievable line that struck my attention - one that was in such poor taste that it couldn't possibly have survived scrutiny by competent speechwriters and editors unless there was some intention behind it: "We are here today because we know this work is not yet finished."

Now, don't tell me I am taking this line out of context. I know I am. I understand the context - that the fight continues against those who deny the Holocaust.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 17, 2009 (boomark / email).