Thursday, January 20, 2011

Steve Cohen: 'I Meant What I Said' About GOPers And Nazis Lying

TPM

Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) isn't backing down from comments he made on the floor of the House last night comparing Republican's lies about health care to the lies of Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.

"I meant what I said, that lies are wrong," Cohen told TPM in a phone interview Wednesday.

Cohen said he wasn't comparing Republicans to members of the Third Reich. He did, however, see a parallel between the rhetorical strategies of GOPers in their march to repeal health care reform and those used on the people of Germany under the leadership of Adolf Hitler.

"It was a lie, and that if you repeat a lie over and over again it doesn't make it the truth and that's what Goebbels did," Cohen said. "Goebbels is known for political propaganda, probably one of the most successful political propagandist whose philosophy was to lie, and if you repeat it over and over again than people will believe it."........................

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