Mark Davis -- sitting in for Rush -- prefers Nero analogies to the “Hitler analogies that will sometimes arise” Written by Media Matters Staff Published 09/03/10 2:11 PM EDT From the September 3 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show: Video file Previously: Rush says Obama is better than Hitler and a Soviet commissar at dividing by race and class Why is Limbaugh using deceptive editing to cover up his Obama-Hitler comparisons? Limbaugh clarifies: “I did not call Obama a Nazi. ... I compared Obama's health care policies to the Nazis' ” Limbaugh defends, advances Hitler, Nazi comparisons: “Why can we not use Hitler?” Limbaugh whitewash continues: “Nobody's calling Obama Hitler; nobody's calling Pelosi Joseph Goebbels” Limbaugh's false logic on Nazi rhetoric: “It is I who is denouncing all of this” Limbaugh whitewashes history: “Nobody is saying that Obama is Hitler” Limbaugh: “to sit here and to be compared to the monstrous, genocidal Adolf Hitler, that's beyond the pale” Limbaugh: “Let's go back and compare [pay czar] to Nazi Germany”; “Hitler had a labor czar” Limbaugh: Gibbs “wants to say I was comparing the genocidal Hitler to Obama”; “I was comparing” two socialists Limbaugh explaining his Nazi reference: “Socialism is socialism,” “Hitler, Lenin, Stalin were all men of the left” Limbaugh: Obama's flag@WhiteHouse.gov is like Hitler's “youth movement” Rush Limbaugh's obsession with Nazi comparisons Limbaugh again says Obama health care logo “looks damn like the Nazi logo,” lashes out at reporters mentioning comment Limbaugh: “Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate”
