“The notion that Germany or Russia have aggressive designs on the United States is laughable,” said Communist Party leader Earl Browder. “Chaplin should make a movie about decadent bourgeois capitalist democracies before they land in the ash dump of history.”
Chaplin was unavailable for comment. Despite protests “The Great Dictator” continues to draw audiences.
“I thought the movie wasn’t as good as his other stuff,” said Arnold Smith, 35, an unemployed engineer from New York. “But so what if it’s a satire of Hitler? Aren’t dictators fair game for comedy?”
Reporters asked Smith if Secretary Hull should have apologized for the movie.
“He did what?” said Smith. “It’s just a movie for crying out loud. Doesn’t he have better things to do? Any idiot knows the government didn’t make the movie and who cares what they think of it, though maybe Hitler does. He’s not such a funny guy when you get down to it.”
The German-American Bund and other protesters are now demanding that “The Great Dictator” be pulled from theatres and that Charlie Chaplin be arrested and tried for slander. One protest sign in Chicago read: “Death to Chaplin and All Enemies of Our Fuehrer and the Reich.”
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history repeats itself
Hellary wants to be president and Willie is hosting the muslim brotherhood president of Egypt….Nice "Un-American" couple…..
And the propaganda campaign continues. There is one huge problem with comparisons between Nazi Germany and the threat from Islamism and it's various Jihadist cadres. First, Germany had 100 divisions to the U.K.'s 5 in 1938. England was essentially defenseless against the Germans. You folks should really digest this. Iran is no real military threat to the U.S. If we were determined, we could wipe out Iran's entire military and government in a matter of days with very low casualties.
The other key reality that seems missing from such alarmist rhetoric above is the fact that the Islamists aren't unified. The hard core radical Salafists battle the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Al Qaeda subsidiaries fight various governments across Northern Africa, and the Iranians rail against Sunni and other Shia sects. They are not working together, they are not unified. Accordingly, each threat needs to be countered on its own terms, yeah? The threat from Iran is completely separate and distinct from that of the Muslim Brotherhood – they aren't allies, they aren't the same enemy, yes?
Lastly, and this is very important, we are the invaders there. It's not our territory that is being contested, it's their's. Whether you right-wing know-nothings want to admit it, we are intervening there, we are projecting our power and interests there – making the dynamic utterly different from the German aggression. It makes me sick to my stomach to hear the constant drumbeat of comparison between Islam and Nazism in terms of the threat to us – it's not supported by reason or the facts. Wake up – this is just propaganda folks!
Wait . . ."constant drumbeat of comparison between Islam amd Naziism in terms of the threat to us" ??? What on earth are you talking about?
And "we are the invaders" where? What territory is "being contested"?
Good Lord how silly.
That's the best you can do? I make very substantive points about how comparisons with Nazi Germany are wildly inaccurate and without basis, and you go "Good Lord…"? Do you really not hear the comparisons with the Nazis non-stop? Really? Do you live on planet Earth? As for us being the invaders – are you blind? Do you not see our occupation in Afghanistan or our recent on in Iraq as invasions? What about the 18 U.S. military bases surrounding Iran? Our permanent bases in Saudi Arabia?
Silly? Me? It's you has has your head in the sand. Wake up, get a clue – they are usually free, fyi…
One thing you have remember about a good FPMer is their ability to foam at the mouth about Muslim/Socialist/Liberal (they can't tell the difference) being synonyms for Nazism and then deny ever even hearing of the concept.
To pull off something like this doesn't take a strong mind just a well disciplined one. The second category of good FPMers are out right liars. Good luck separating the idiots from the liars.
I agree "this is just propaganda". Your entire diatribe that is.
Mr. Billingsley overlooks the fact that Mr. Roosevelt was also pumping money and munitions into the Allies and launched the attack on Japan. Or are we going to ignore the whole part where he led the US through WWII?
Are you going to ignore that Neville Chamberlain style diplomacy never works?
And here I thought the point was that the State Department has a history of apologizing to totalitarians for American values.
I should have guest you would apologize for the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese as well.
You ridiculous creature.
President Roosevelt launched the attack on Japan?
Japan launched an unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor, moron.
What alternative world do you live on, Schlomo?
I guess you don't mind the fact that wherever Japan invaded, they wantonly murdered civilians with the most notorious example being their "holocaust" against the Chinese people. They would have done the same had they landed on North America.
They got what they deserved when Hiroshima and Nagasaki got cleansed with nuclear fire as examples.
Not even at his most misinformed did the professional historical distortionist Howard Zinn make as dumb a statement as "Mr. Roosevelt……launched the attack on Japan."
The prevaricating left are well represented by Schmo. This guy is the web equivalent of the hoodie-attired masked miscreants who throw Molotov Cocktails bombs during protests.
What do you call what the United States does in a war? Did we "visit" Japan? Did we "launch a peace mission?" Did we "bake them a cake?"
More importantly, did you remember to imbibe your healthy, steaming camel urine cocktail this morning?
Your history is as screwed up as you are,Schlockmotion. Have you forgotten about incidents like the Rape of Nanking in which hundreds of Chinese civilians were butchered by the Japanese or the "Panay" incident in which an American gunship was attacked by Japanese airplanes even though it had an American flag? I've studied WWII for years now and I know a lot more than you do. The Japanese attacked US at Pearl Harbor. Roosevelt didn't even have a clue about it until it began. Your idiocy is just unbelievable. You need to read up more BEFORE you make another imbecilic statement.
Schlo's arguments are mostly an exercise in meaningless rhetoric supported by frequent trips to the thesaurus.
It should be compeltely obvious that islam's inbred leaders and followers consider their death cult to be superior to any other religion. They have from the beginning and this sinister feature is not going to change. The effort to place islam, its pedophile founder, and its genocidal record beyond criticism is beyond doubt. I continue to teach college students that islam is no different than communism and fascism and may actually be worse. I'm including accurate features of islam that would probably result in my arrest and prosecution in most european countries for hate speech. So much the worse. I was considering retiring, but the toxic features of islam persuaded me to continue to tell the truth to students who are often manipulated by the radcial left.
Thank you for fighting the good fight
I admire your courage, teaching the ugly truth about islam these days can't be a popular move in academia at any level.
I rank Chaplain's speech at the end along with Karl Malden's in On the Waterfront as one of the greatest ever in movies. What a talented actor he was.
Neither even remotely approaches Al Pacino's classic speeches, especially those in "Devil's Advocate," "And Justice for All" and "Scent of a Woman."
Personally I liked Pacino in Serpico best of all.
Good of you to recall the Communist supporting the Nazis in America with their peaceniks on the streets, until the Nazi attack on Russia, then it became a holy war against Fascism. By that time, the left wing of the Democrat Party was in government (Alger Hiss), and US policy would forever change always leaning towards the far left. Even up to today. This is why the extreme left allies itself with the Muslims. It fits in nicely with their long term goal of "Fundamentally Transform" our nation. This is why History repeats itself in the reaction to "The Dictator" in 1938 and reaction to a low budget video of little value. The reaction is always to intimidate freedom, and from the State Department is to appease our enemies.
We have had trouble with Iran trying to create their own versions of the BUND in both America and Canada. That was one of the reasons why Canada has cut all diplomatic ties with Iran recently.
Fritz Kuhn was arrested as an enemy agent and jailed for the duration of WWII, and then deported back to Germany after the war where he spent the rest of his life in obscurity. As such, immigrants who come here and then work actively to aid our enemies simply do not belong here and should get the same treatment .
Cartoonists had lots of fun with ridiculing Adolf Hitler and his allies, and frankly they all deserved it. The Axis were making cartoons that dehumanized their enemies (Der Sturmer was a prime example). Therefore they were fair game for our satirists. Today, the Islamist terrorists are doing the exact same thing, so they deserve it as well, and if they don't like it, too bad.
Somebody with some editing equipment and software (not me) should make a movie with book or chapter and verse from the koran and or haditha or bukhari etc. read out, followed with scenes of the actions called for being carried out. Stonings, beheadings, hands and feet being cut off, churches burned, ambassadors murdered, charred christian bodies lying dead – I've seen all these things on You Tube or elsewhere on the net. Put a sampling of them together in the movie with Obama or his fellow useful idiots swooning over the muslim evening call to prayer, or touting the "religion of peace" mixed in between the atrocities here and there. Collect about 45 minutes all in one movie. Disseminate widely. Real footage would be hard for the jihad machine to deny, or be offended by.
That would make for a bloody, truthful spectacle.
Hey, let's not forget the 1942 Spike Jones song, "Der Fuehrers Face," which disrespected Hitler with the use of a rude chorus of razzberries. It was used as the soundtrack for a Disney cartoon starring Donald Duck. Propaganda for sure, but I don't think anyone objected. Funny stuff you couldn't get away with today. And I'd be remiss if I failed to mention the Three Stooges episode, "You Natsy Spy!", which actually preceded the Chaplin film by several months.
There was a Looney Toons cartoon where Daffy Duck lands behind Hitler during one of his speeches and clobbers him with a big wooden mallet.
The 3 Stooges Hitler/Nazi parodies were even funnier than Chaplin's.
Another frightening scenario is that if the current mainstream liberal media were in place in 1940-1945 I'm not certain we could have won World War II.
Hitler never had the same financial means to buy off legislators, judges, media outlets that the muslo-fascists do.