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Jewish World Review
June 14, 2010
/ 2 Tamuz 5770
Who's Angry Now? Brown Compares Whitman to Goebbels
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Jonathan Tobin
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California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown was once known as "Governor Moonbeam" because of his eccentric manner way back in the 1970s, when he served two terms in the same office he's trying for now. But you would think that after four decades in public life, Brown, who has always fancied himself an advocate of a purer brand of politics than the average lifetime politician, would have learned that calling your opponent a Nazi isn't so smart.
Politico reports that, in a conversation with a reporter, Brown compared his Republican opponent, Meg Whitman, the former eBay chief who triumphed in this week's GOP primary, to Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's minister of propaganda. According to KCBS's Doug Sovern, Brown claimed that:
She'll have people believing whatever she wants about me. It's like Goebbels. … Goebbels invented this kind of propaganda. He took control of the whole world. She wants to be president. That's her ambition, the first woman president. That's what this is all about.
Brown's over-the-top paranoia about his opponent speaks volumes about his own view of the world, in which any opponent who brings up the details from his own long and not terribly successful record while holding numerous public offices is a Nazi. And because inappropriate Nazi analogies are one of the few political sins that can guarantee a liberal Democrat like Brown criticism from mainstream liberal Jewish organizations, he should be expecting a call (accompanied by a news release) from the Anti-Defamation League's Abe Foxman sometime in the next day or two, in which he will be instructed that it is not appropriate behavior to compare a former business executive to the regime that slaughtered six million Jews just because she takes Jerry Brown's name in vain.
We can expect Brown — who hasn't denied the slur but instead had his office issue the usual weasel-worded claim that his words were "taken out of context" — to eventually apologize. But in a year in which the liberal media have seized every opportunity to brand Republicans and the Tea Party movement as extremists and as a threat to democracy, it's interesting to note that invariably, it is liberal Democrats like Brown who are coarsening the public square with attempts to demonize their opponents for having the temerity to question their bona fides. The ADL itself stepped into dangerous territory last fall with a report titled "Rage Grows in America: Anti-Government Conspiracies," in which it speciously linked Republican critics of the Obama administration with militias and other far-right extremists.
But contrary to the ADL's inappropriate and highly partisan report, most of the rage this year seems to come from Democrats and liberals like Brown who are willing to say anything to besmirch those who dare to oppose them. While I don't doubt that the ADL will rightly take Brown to task for his loose talk about Goebbels, the group ought to think seriously about the fact that most of the anger we're hearing lately is not from Tea Partiers heading to Washington with their pitchforks but from liberals who are crying in their beer about the imminent prospect of defeat at the hands of a re-energized GOP.
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