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Friday, December 16, 2011

Media Andrew Breitbart Uses Nazi Propaganda on His Website

Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 2:32 PM

The website Media Matters pointed out (for the second time) last night that conservative provocateur and mini-media mogul Andrew Breitbart's Big Journalism used a touched-up version of an old anti-Semitic graphic three separate times. The original drawing, which features a caricature of a Jewish man, complete with a hooked nose and a Star of David on his tie, can be seen on the white-power message board Stormfront, as published in a 1942 edition of the German magazine Kladderadatsch, while the version on Big Journalism overlayed the text "Media Bias," removed the tie adornment, and adjusted the nose.

Here are the noses in question. The one on the left is pre-Brietbart nose job, the one on the right is post-nose job.

Twitter has erupted with the hilarious #PeopleWhoNeverAccidentallyPostedNaziPropaganda hashtag. In true super-villain fashion, Breitbart has sworn vengeance on the people who dared to notice where the cartoons came from, declaring on Twitter that "Our penance will be to double down on exposing the unabashed real anti-Semititic, pro-radical Palestinian radicals at [Media Matters]."

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Modern conservatives' weird, fetishistic relationship with Jews is so fucking baffling.

Also, WOW. Seriously, actually reusing Nazi propaganda. That is just... damn. And there's really no good answer to the question of how he came by the art in question, is there? "Uh, yeah, I didn't mean to use Nazi art, it was just something I saw on Stormfront this one... time... well, shit."

Posted by balderdash

on December 16, 2011 at 2:59 PM

Damn those pro-radical radicals!

Posted by Grist on December 16, 2011 at 3:06 PM

Most hilarious #PeopleWhoNeverAccidentallyPostedNaziPropaganda so far: Ralph Wiggins.

Posted by Luckier on December 16, 2011 at 3:13 PM

Some guy who sucks did some thing that sucks. For some reason I can't muster the outrage. Perhaps I should hand in my Internet.

Posted by Ziggity on December 16, 2011 at 3:14 PM

If someone is pro-Palestinian they are pro-Semite, literally.

Posted by dirge on December 16, 2011 at 3:29 PM

Gay people and Jews suffered side by side at the hands of Nazi monsters. That was no accident. If this is a friend, you can have him.

Posted by Vince on December 16, 2011 at 3:30 PM

I'm sure this will prove to be as much of a load of shit as your (still unretracted) post about Romney using a KKK slogan. (He didn't.)

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on December 16, 2011 at 4:12 PM

@5 ftw

Posted by jimmy

on December 16, 2011 at 4:33 PM

I wish conservatives would stop "championing" my people.

Posted by samktg on December 16, 2011 at 6:58 PM

@ 1 I love Breitbart's reaction:

"We took the damn thing down BEFORE there was any criticism... What more can you want? It takes NY TIMES weeks, months to correct errors. We took it down. We are writing a response now. Pretty fast, no?!

Yeah, Andy, except for the part where you RE-APPROPRIATED NAZI PROPAGANDA. You know, that little thing. It's like explaining getting caught with a Thai rentboy- there is no explanation. Just the deserved shame and embarrassment.

I hate to bang on about this because 'Nazi' is an overused political slur but Christ on sale, what a fucking loon. And the depressing part is that in today's media the only bad publicity is no publicity, so this fucker will just goose step right on to more exposure and more money.

Posted by Xenos on December 16, 2011 at 8:25 PM