CNN host Jake Tapper grilled Republican presidential candidate and Ohio Gov. John Kasich and asked him if he thought his attack web video against GOP rival Donald Trump seemed “desperate.”
Tapper asked Kasich about his recent video against Trump and that the video could be compared to a poem about the Nazis.
“The Nazis killed 12 million people,” Tapper said. “It seems a little extreme and perhaps even a lot desperate to compare Donald Trump to the Nazis.”
Kasich responded and said that wasn’t “what is being done here.”
“When you attack Hispanics, when you characterize all Muslims in a very negative way, when you insult women, we don’t think that that’s good. We think, at this point in time, more than any other time, we need to have — we need to have America united,” Kasich said. “And we need to have an American president who is going to unite us and not divide us.”
“And it’s no more than that,” Kasich said. “And any read into it more than that is certainly not what was intended or what was meant.”
It seems short sighted and evil to NOT notice the similarities.
It’s always extreme and desperate to compare anything to the Nazi’s. The Nazi’s were the superlative bad people. Perhaps Genghis Khan is up there with them but nothing else is. I think we worked this out in the early days of the internet. Comparison to Hitler and Nazi is inane.
It seems desperate to pretend that your video calling your opponent a nazi wasn’t actually intended to call your opponent a nazi.
If you compare the end results and the processes, then it necessarily seems extreme because you are comparing apples and oranges. That’s not the right comparison and therefore meaningless.
But if you take a look at the same elements of the two, the processes of the two (because Trump doesn’t have any end results, that’s the only and fair comparison), i.e., how they incite people for their political purposes, what language codes they exhibit, how their discourses are structured, etc, then you’ should see ominous similarities.
Conclusion: Tapper is an idiot. Not that we don’t know that, but I feel I gotta repeat.
When’s the last time the media called anyone out for Obama/Hitler comparisons? Trump gets defended by Tapper, but, as far as I know, not Obama.