When Is It OK To Use “Holocaust”? (Paul Broun, Rush, etc.)

When is it okay to use ‘holocaust’? By: Jonathan Allen October 1, 2009 02:18 PM EST

When is a holocaust not THE Holocaust? The word holocaust was barely out of Rep. Alan Grayson’s mouth Wednesday afternoon when conservatives – and a few liberals – began crying foul. Grayson was less than 24 hours removed from his caustic Republicans want you to “die quickly,” speech, and now he was making holocaust references on the House floor. “I apologize to the dead and their families that we haven’t voted sooner to end this holocaust in America,” he said Wednesday. It touched a nerve, and made some in his own party uncomfortable. “I wouldn’t have done it,” said Tennessee Democrat Steve Cohen, who is Jewish. Now Republicans want Grayson – Bronx raised and Jewish himself — to apologize for the apology and for inappropriately invoking the word. “Congressman Grayson should apologize to the Jewish community and the families of those whose loved ones were brutally executed,” fumed Florida House Majority Leader Adam Hasner, a Jewish Republican. But is there a difference between talking about the Holocaust and talking about a generic, lower-case “holocaust?”

Gore Vidal: ‘We’ll have a dictatorship soon in the US’ The grand old man of letters Gore Vidal claims America is ‘rotting away’ — and don’t expect Barack Obama to save it…

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From The Times

September 30, 2009

Gore Vidal: ‘We’ll have a dictatorship soon in the US’

The grand old man of letters Gore Vidal claims America is ‘rotting away’ — and don’t expect Barack Obama to save it

Tim Teeman

A conversation with Gore Vidal unfolds at his pace. He answers questions imperiously, occasionally playfully, with a piercing, lethal dryness. He is 83 and in a wheelchair (a result of hypothermia suffered in the war, his left knee is made of titanium). But he can walk (“Of course I can”) and after a recent performance of Mother Courage at London’s National Theatre he stood to deliver an anti-war speech to the audience.

How was his friend Fiona Shaw in the title role? “Very good.” Where did they meet? Silence. The US? “Well, it wasn’t Russia.” What’s he writing at the moment? “It’s a little boring to talk about. Most writers seem to do little else but talk about themselves and their work, in majestic terms.” He means self-glorifying? “You’ve stumbled on the phrase,” he says, regally enough. “Continue to use it.”

Killer Facebook Groups

Killer Facebook Groups
The Hippo’s A** ^ | October 1, 2009 | Portnoy

Posted on Thursday, October 01, 2009 8:31:56 AM by Portnoy

The blog-o-sphere and the media (in their own little world) was all-a-buzz the other day when a poll on Facebook was discovered that asked if President Obama should be assassinated. Before it was removed, 700 people voted.

Had any of the reporters or bloggers actually used the search function on Facebook, they would have found several groups on the social networking site dedicated to killing, or wanting the death of, a political leader, particularly the death of one George W. Bush.

This group professes that We all Want To Kill George Bush It has 427 members and has been on Facebook since 2007.

Is Obama a natural-born U.S. citizen?

Is Obama a natural-born U.S. citizen?
Jay Bookman blog, Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | October 1, 2009 | David Farrar

Posted on Thursday, October 01, 2009 8:44:33 AM by DavidFarrar

I had been discussing the meaning of the phrase “natural-born” U.S. citizen in Al, Sll, C5 of the U.S. Constitution with my learned friend, Loren Collins, when it suddenly occurred to me…

Obama’s Hit List

Obama’s Hit List
Sept. 22, 09 Globe Magazine ^ | 10/01/09 | ERIC HARTUNIAN

Posted on Thursday, October 01, 2009 6:13:59 AM by Eric Hartunian

For the record, Obama’s Hit List is: 1)Glenn Beck 2)Larry Sinclair 3)Rep. Joe Wilson 4)Sarah Palin 5)Sean Hannity 6)Orly Taitz 7)Pat Boone 8)Jon Voight 9)Rush Limbaugh 10)Ann Coulter 11)Rupert Murdoch 12)Jesse Jackson 13)Dick Cheney 14)Bill O’Reilly 15)Toby Keith 16)Rex Rammell 17)Hank Williams Jr. 18)Steven Anderson 19)Saul Anuzis 20)Bill Cunningham 21)Paul Krugman 22)John Rich 23)Wiley Drake 24)Alex Jones 25)Michelle Malkin

This purported list is from Globe Magazine (9/22/09 issue) and refers to “25 Enemies Obama Wants To Silence”.