Wash. Times defends "fact-based" editorials comparing Obama to Nazis

Responding to an August 14 New York Times article, The Washington Times editorial board defended its comparisons of President Obama's policies to Nazi euthanasia programs, claiming "it was fair game to anticipate how his team might seek to implement those proposals." Also, The Washington Times claimed that its editorials were "consistent, fact-based and principled" despite espousing numerous false and misleading claims.

Washington Times links Nazi euthanasia to Obama

Shortly after the election, Washington Times predicted continuance of "America's T4 program." A November 23, 2008, Washington Times editorial titled, "No 'final solution,' but a way forward," asserted that "Adolf Hitler in the late 1930s started the T4 Aktion (Action) program ... to exterminate 'useless eaters,' babies born with disabilities" and that "the program expanded to include older children and adults with disabilities, and anyone anywhere in the Third Reich was subject to execution who was blind, deaf, senile, retarded, or had any significant neurological condition, encephalitis, epilepsy, muscular spasticity or paralysis." The editorial then referenced America's "current climate as a budding T4 program" and claimed that "America's T4 program" would continue under the Obama administration:

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The Washington times can kiss my ass!! FUCK THEM! The rest of the article will set you ablaze with anger about the context of those WT "articles" flat out LYING.

My blood pressure is ready to explode!!!!!!!!!!! He debated me that this is precisely what Obama is setting up. My hands are still shaking that ANYONE in this country could be this NUTS.

and the person on the other end saying shit like "this is precisely what Obama is setting up" is absolutely fucking lying.

I want that fucker on the other end of the line to say that shit about other countries health care. I want to hear them tell Angela Merkel that the German Health care system is the same on the Nazis had or say that shit to Sarkozy about the French Health Care system.

and debate them live on the air.Someone much calmer than I am!

Yellow journalism plain and simple.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

are running this show now. THey had their bushcheney fucked up years and they blew shite.

Not political control. It was carried out to keep the German race pure. Has zero to do with Obama.