{"id":3347,"date":"2010-12-01T15:01:48","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T23:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=3347"},"modified":"2010-12-01T15:01:48","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T23:01:48","slug":"glenn-beck-and-the-doctrine-of-nazi-kittens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=3347","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Beck And The Doctrine Of Nazi Kittens"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fox News Professor of Practical Dementia delivered a particularly thought provoking lecture today on his radio university. I dare you to make sense of it<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Glenn Beck:<\/strong> This is the oldest argument in the progressive movement. It is the argument between, not state capitalism, because this isn’t capitalism.<\/p>\n

This is a new sort of capitalism. No it’s not! It is socialism. No, it’s state capitalism. No it’s not! Put the Thesaurus down. It is socialism, not capitalism.<\/p>\n

And when you say “state”<\/em> you mean “national.”<\/em> National Socialism. That is what Mussolini and Hitler did. National Socialism. State Capitalism. They’ve changed the name.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Notice that Beck never actually tells us what the old progressive argument is. He just wonders off to build some sort of imaginary bridge between progressives and Nazis.<\/p>\n

Let me take a stab at it. In this utterly incoherent rant, I think Beck is attempting to argue that the word “state”<\/em> is synonymous with the word “national,”<\/em> and the word “capitalism” is synonymous with the word “socialism.”<\/em> Really? Don’t stop to think about it. Just keep listening.<\/p>\n

Beck continues by saying that if you replace the word “state”<\/em> in “State Capitalism”<\/em> with the word “national,”<\/em> and then replace the word “capitalism”<\/em> with “socialism,” you have “National Socialism,”<\/em> or, as they are better known, Nazis.<\/p>\n

\"HitlerAll of this is somehow associated with progressives who advocate neither State Capitalism nor National Socialism. Again, I implore you, don’t stop to think about it. Just accept that progressives are Nazis by virtue of Beck’s word replacement exercise.<\/p>\n

Now try it yourself at home. Take any phrase, i.e. “Furry Kitten.”<\/em> Now replace the word “furry”<\/em> with “national,”<\/em> and the word “kitten”<\/em> with “socialism.”<\/em> There you have it.<\/p>\n

Unassailable evidence that furry kittens are Nazis.
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