Richard Land un-apologizes for Nazi remark against Democrats

[ck4829]

Last week we noted that Richard Land has written a letter of apology to the Anti-Defamation League for his recent statements comparing Democrats to Nazis and Ezekiel Emanuel to Josef Mengele and noticed that much of his "apology" seemed to hinge upon his claim that it was never his "intention" to make such comparisons. Which is absurd, because that was precisely what he intended, as he made fully clear in his original remarks:

“I want to put it to you bluntly. What they are attempting to do in healthcare, particularly in treating the elderly, is not something like what the Nazis did. It is precisely what the Nazis did,” said Land, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission."

Now Land is doubling down, asserting that the same philosophy that drove the Holocaust is now driving Democratic efforts to reform healthcare while insisting that he never equated Democrats or Obama with the Nazis:

"There were very lethal and deadly philosophies loose in 20th century Germany prior to the Nazis' ascendancy to power that called for devaluing some human beings as less worthy of life than other human beings," he said, recalling there were arguments for euthanizing those who were perceived to be "useless eaters" and those who had "lives unworthy of life," lebensunvertes Leben, in the 1930s and beyond."

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/so-much-richard-lands-apology

Hitler also banned abortions for "aryan" women, and Mussolini went as far as making a total ban on information about contraceptives.

Bet you didn't know that about the fascists, huh?

[yellowcanine]

1. "It defies logic," he (Richard Land) said. Lose the "t" in "it" and you got it right, Richard.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Gas chambers = a checkup at the doctor?

:crazy: :silly:

[Zoeisright]

3. What projection!

Repukes are more like the Nazis than any Democrat, ever, simply because their policies kill people and they don't give a shit. Repukes think poor people and anyone who dies as a result of being poor has just asked for it: i.e. they devalue human life.

Land is a complete idiot.