{"id":18791,"date":"2010-11-21T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=18791"},"modified":"2010-11-21T00:00:04","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T05:00:04","slug":"this-just-in-pot-calls-kettle-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/11\/21\/this-just-in-pot-calls-kettle-black\/","title":{"rendered":"NSDAP Meets NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/11\/jabbarotj.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18792\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/11\/jabbarotj.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/11\/jabbarotj.jpg 528w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/11\/jabbarotj-282x300.jpg 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2010-11-16\/fox-news-chairman-roger-ailes-slams-white-house-in-exclusive-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a> with <em>The Daily Beast<\/em>, Fox News CEO Roger Ailes (above) called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Npr\" target=\"_blank\">NPR<\/a> (base of operations for <em>sturmer <\/em>personalities like David Brooks and David Rakoff) &#8220;nazis.&#8221;\u00a0 He spoke from his shotgun shack in the darkness at the edge of town.<\/p>\n<p>The story from Nazi Public Radio <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/v2\/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&amp;t=1&amp;islist=false&amp;id=131436212&amp;m=131437280\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Mussolini, the father of fascism, said about his movement: \u201cFascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.\u201d\u00a0 Like, say, FNC and the RNC.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s Joseph Goebbels on a related matter: &#8220;News should be given out for instruction rather than information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, it&#8217;s worth repeating Frye from 1942&#8217;s &#8220;The Present Condition of the World&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Given the right conditions, we could develop on this continent a Nazism  of a fury compared to which that of the Germans would be, in American  language, bush-league stuff.\u00a0 And if it has not occurred, and even if  the danger of its occurring has perhaps passed its meridian, our escape  is due to the anodyne of prosperity and to certain economic and  geographical features in our favour, not to any special virtue in us,  any innate love of liberty in our people, or any invincible power in our  democratic institutions.\u00a0 With regard to the last, the general level of  political education and insight is even lower here than in Germany  before Hitler.\u00a0 (<em>CW<\/em> 10, 216)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent interview with The Daily Beast, Fox News CEO Roger Ailes (above) called NPR (base of operations for sturmer personalities like David Brooks and David Rakoff) &#8220;nazis.&#8221;\u00a0 He spoke from his shotgun shack in the darkness at the edge of town. The story from Nazi Public Radio here. 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