[lbo-talk] LaRouche: I started the Obama = Hitler thing!

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Aug 13 08:53:04 PDT 2009


[An actual press release from the LaRouche organization.]

The Washington Times: LaRouche Originated the Obama-Hitler Poster

Aug. 12 (LPAC) The Washington Times's "Inside the Beltway" column for Aug. 13 reports that "NBC, MSNBC and CNN have showcased a controversial image of President Obama depicted as Hitler during recent news coverage of contentious town-hall meetings and health care reform," noting that its originator was the Lyndon LaRouche movement.

The column then not only interviewed, but actually accurately quoted, LaRouche spokeswoman Nancy Spannaus explaining: "Lyndon LaRouche and his organization have declared war against Obama's so-called health care reform, because it is a direct copy of the policy Hitler declared in October 1939, when Hitler issued the order for euthanasia against those determined, by a board of medical experts, to have 'lives unworthy to be lived,' " Ms. Spannaus says.

"LaRouche has also put forward the clear alternative: cancel the bailout and HMOs, implement bankruptcy reorganization of the financial system, and return to the Hill-Burton system that made our health care the best in the world."



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