The NRCC drew fire for an attack on Nancy Pelosi Democrats say goes too far for the second time in a week today. On Oct. 6, Democrats were upset when the GOP group called on Gen. Stanley McChrystal to put Pelosi “in her place.” Today, it was the NRCC’s seeming comparison of Pelosi to Adolf Hitler that had Democrats up in arms.
“The NRCC’s despicable promotion of a video comparing Speaker Pelosi’s effort to reform health insurance in America to Adolf Hitler’s extermination of millions is a shocking new low that must be condemned,” DCCC spokesperson Jennifer Crider said.
The offending tweet was posted around noon. Politico‘s Glenn Thrush reported it:
[S]omeone at the NRCC posted a bizarre Tweet linking to an altered three-minute section of the 2004 Hitler biopic “Der Untergang” from the conservative site Moonbattery — with a voice-over of the The Fuhrer ranting about how only Nancy Pelosi shares his vision of health care reform.
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Hitler, played by Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, is trapped in his bunker with his generals, and rants [in the phony subtitles] about President Obama’s revisions to his socialized medicine plan — and how only he and Nancy Pelosi are still fighting the good fight.
After Thrush contacted the man in charge of the NRCC’s Twitter feed, John Randall, the post was taken down. But not before the Democrats got a hold of it and sent their feelings far and wide.
Randall wasn’t available when TPMDC called. But he told Thrush:
“We saw the video this morning and thought, like other parodies, that it was funny. In 20-20 hindsight, we realized it was in poor taste and pulled it down… I don’t want anyone to think we’re comparing Democrats to Nazis and to Hitler.”
