On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Doug Henwood<dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> [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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