pathetic meme the right is trying to develop about James Von Brunn being a leftist

[babsbunny]

Next up: cancer, invented by the left

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/michaeltomasky/2009/jun/12/holocaust-museum-shooting-right-wing

One really has to laugh at this pathetic meme the right is trying to develop about James Von Brunn being a leftist. Rush Limbaugh hauled this one out of his garbage pile the other day, as have many. Zack Roth offers a brief (and brief is all we can take) chrestomathy of this pathology at TPM that you can read here.

I'm not that interested in this debate as it applies to Von Brunn personally. He's a nutcase first of all. Granted he held a few views that could somehow be labeled left-wing. He hated neocons. But of course he presumably hated neocons chiefly because a large number of them happen to be Jewish, not because of their views. Sorry, folks. A white supremacist/anti-Semite is, in very fundamental ways, a person who is on the extreme right, not the extreme left. To say otherwise is just to spout stupid propaganda. It's not only not worth engaging. It's not even worth having contempt for.

[C_U_L8R]

1. The essential problem with the GOP is...

they just cannot deal with the truth,
They can't accept the truth.. they can't speak the truth.
They really have gone quite mental.
It was funny for a while but now it just seems like some sad sickness.

[WeDidIt]

2. It's feel good shit for the insane base

nothing more.

[Mike 03]

3. OMG, that is ridiculous. I can't believe it. NT

[Believing Is Art]

4. They don't even know what they are talking about anymore

To them, the only ideologies that are right-wing are the ones consistent with what Hannity/Limbaugh/Beck/etc. tell them to think. Since the right's talking heads are most often pro-Israel (since the alternative would seem to involve supporting Muslims), any anti-Semite must be a rabid left-winger.

It's one of the reasons they were so pissed off about DHS's report. They see their views as the only conservative views. Any extremists are, by their definition, left-wing nutjobs. You're with us or you're pinko.

[BrklynLiberal]

5. Keith Olbermann played a bit of Limpballs expounding that exact idea.

Limpballs needs to shut up.

He needs to get this tattooed on his forehead,- in mirror writing, of course - so he can read it every morning..


"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

[kestrel91316]

6. He is a Neo-Nazi. The Nazis came after the socialists before they

came after the Jews.

This pile of crap is their best effort at trying to deflect attention from their failed, miserable, suck-ass right wing nuttery.

[lapfog_1]

7. No No No

you have it all wrong.

You see, the NAZIs were the National SOCIALIST Party. So the Nazis were ACTUALLY leftists!!!

Hitler was just like FDR, only more LEFT!

(I wish I was kidding, but that is the God's honest answer from the wing nuts about why anyone that follows the Nazis and hates Jews is really... a leftist commie socialist... at least when they are caught being all Nazi like and goose stepping down the street).