The website Media Matters pointed out (for the second time) last night that conservative provocateur and mini-media mogul Andrew Breitbart‘s Big Journalism used a touched-up version of an old anti-Semitic graphic three separate times. The original drawing, which features a caricature of a Jewish man, complete with a hooked nose and a Star of David on his tie, can be seen on the white-power message board Stormfront, as published in a 1942 edition of the German magazine Kladderadatsch, while the version on Big Journalism overlayed the text “Media Bias,” removed the tie adornment, and adjusted the nose.
Here are the noses in question. The one on the left is pre-Brietbart nose job, the one on the right is post-nose job.
Twitter has erupted with the hilarious #PeopleWhoNeverAccidentallyPostedNaziPropaganda hashtag. In true super-villain fashion, Breitbart has sworn vengeance on the people who dared to notice where the cartoons came from, declaring on Twitter that “Our penance will be to double down on exposing the unabashed real anti-Semititic, pro-radical Palestinian radicals at [Media Matters].”
Modern conservatives’ weird, fetishistic relationship with Jews is so fucking baffling.
Also, WOW. Seriously, actually reusing Nazi propaganda. That is just… damn. And there’s really no good answer to the question of how he came by the art in question, is there? “Uh, yeah, I didn’t mean to use Nazi art, it was just something I saw on Stormfront this one… time… well, shit.”
Damn those pro-radical radicals!
Most hilarious #PeopleWhoNeverAccidentallyPostedNaziPropaganda so far: Ralph Wiggins.
Some guy who sucks did some thing that sucks. For some reason I can’t muster the outrage. Perhaps I should hand in my Internet.
If someone is pro-Palestinian they are pro-Semite, literally.
Gay people and Jews suffered side by side at the hands of Nazi monsters. That was no accident. If this is a friend, you can have him.
I’m sure this will prove to be as much of a load of shit as your (still unretracted) post about Romney using a KKK slogan. (He didn’t.)
@5 ftw
I wish conservatives would stop “championing” my people.
@ 1 I love Breitbart’s reaction:
Yeah, Andy, except for the part where you RE-APPROPRIATED NAZI PROPAGANDA. You know, that little thing. It’s like explaining getting caught with a Thai rentboy- there is no explanation. Just the deserved shame and embarrassment.
I hate to bang on about this because ‘Nazi’ is an overused political slur but Christ on sale, what a fucking loon. And the depressing part is that in today’s media the only bad publicity is no publicity, so this fucker will just goose step right on to more exposure and more money.