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Tuesday's anti-stimulus rally at the Capitol drew hundreds of people protesting President Obama's signing of the $787 billion economic stimulus bill. Among the protesters was an unknown man identified only by his "swastika sign" that likened Obama to Adolf Hitler.
Huttner, at Tuesday's rallyFTS Staff Photo
Michael Huttner of ProgressNow, a left-wing advocacy group, attended the rally and in typical Huttner fashion, sent out a post-rally release where he decried the use of swastikas a Nazi analogies, and also demanded an apology from rally organizers, including Independence Institute President Jon Caldara.
But according to conservative muckraker Ari Armstrong, supporters posting on ProgressNow's Web site have regularly used Nazi analogies over the years, and ProgressNow has yet to condemn, edit, or apologize for this sort of language. On his Free Colorado blog, Armstrong outlines seven examples of language on ProgressNow's Web site comparing the George W. Bush presidential administration to the Third Reich of Nazi Germany and called conservatives "fascists." Examples included "Is the Bush Administration The Fourth Reich?" and "the Republicans have become an inchoate fascist enemy."
Armstrong also shot back with his own press release, saying Huttner is bringing politics in Colorado to a new low.
"Huttner has brought 'gotcha' politics to a new low," he wrote. "As Huttner's own Web page demonstrates, the left commonly attacks Republicans and conservatives by likening them to fascists. Has Michael Huttner condemned each of those comments and apologized for them?"
This is not the first time that Armstrong has caught Huttner for selective disapproval of controversial language. In January 2008, Huttner put out a press release calling for a boycott of Caldara's 850 KOA radio show after suggested that Obama had "bitch slapped" primary opponent Hillary Clinton in a presidential primary debate. At time time, Huttner suggested that Caldara had a "history of hate against women."
Caldara's response: "As a guy who's been bitch-slapped in politics for the last 15 years, I think I well know what the term means."
Even after Armstrong pointed out that liberal media pundits and bloggers, including those on ProgressNow's own Web site, had frequently used the term over the years, Huttner declined to apologize.
Huttner is a clown, reminiscent....
On February 25th, 2009 BlueCarp says:
of the Iraqi Information Minister during Operation Desert Storm. You remember, the guy who would deny the U.S. had entered Iraq territory while you could hear American military voices in the background from his office in Baghdad.
This guy:
http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/
Less government. More Freedom.
http://www.bluecarp.com
It's remarkable how they can't take it.
On February 20th, 2009 cologeek says:
Huttner is your average lefty. For eight years those of us on the right have been attacked, vilified, and slimed by those on the left, including Huttner. Now that they have one of their own in the White House, they can't take what they were dishing out for most of the last decade. You can't speak out against President Obama without unleashing the hysteria from those on the left that you previously thought level headed. What comes from those you knew were way out there is beyond description.