So, who is Hitler again? I get confused!

Evan Coyne Maloney has had some interesting posts over the past week on his Brain Terminal blog. In it he shows how the latest efforts by Dems to play up the violent rhetoric and make themselves the "poor me" victims doesn't square with how they were thinking just a few short years ago when Bush was in office. So, let's take a trip down memory lane, shall we?




From the Powerline Blog reffering to Maloney:

During the Bush administration, Evan was out in the field with his camera observing protests and interviewing protesters. He is therefore in a good position to recall the signs and symbols of the left-wing opposition to the Bush administration's post-9/11 national security policies. How do they compare to the Tea Party protesters expressing their opposition to Barack Obama's program of national socialism?


Evan has now produced a timely new video splicing together footage that he calls "A trip down memory lane." He describes it as four minutes of nonstop examples of violent imagery and extremist rhetoric employed by left-wing anti-Bush protesters. He writes: "For some reason, despite it being well documented at the time by me and many others, the media chose to ignore it." Indeed.

In his "memory lane" post, Evan observes a transformation in the attitude of the Democrat/media axis to political protest. He even identifies the precise date of the transformation: "[I]t seems that publicly airing your grievances stopped being patriotic right around noon on January 20th, 2009." How so? "Once President Obama was sworn in, protesting became incitement to violence."

Evan adds: "One thing's for sure: If there is such a thing as dangerous rhetoric, then the media is at least one president too late in reporting the story."

Evan also has another post from the 25th that recalls what the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue thought of how to confront those with differing opinions. In fact he has used it to his advantage on more than one occasion.

During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama didn’t shy away from confrontation. In fact, he encouraged it by telling supporters to “argue with” opponents and to “get in their face[s].”


The Obama Administration’s confrontational tone included some violent imagery last August, when one White House official encouraged Obama supporters to “punch back twice as hard” against opponents.