O'Reilly Calls Charges Of Racism And Fascism Against Trump 'Easy Smears'
Leave it to the bloviator in chief over at the Joseph Goebbels network to take up Trump and his over the top rhetoric that's become all too common at his rallies. Bill-O opened up his show this Wednesday defending Donald Trump from comparisons to Hitler and served up a big heaping helping of both siderism while he was at it.
Transcript via O'Reilly's blog for anyone who wants to spare their ears: Fascism and Donald Trump:
As predicted here, some in the media -- both left and right -- are portraying Mr. Trump as a 1930s-type fascist and his supporters as budding Brown Shirts -- the Nazi Party's street army in Germany.
MATT LAUER, NBC NEWS: "Mr. Trump, with some of the rhetoric you've used on the campaign trail over the last several months, targeting groups like Muslims and Mexicans, that - that evokes images of Nazi Germany and the scapegoating of Jews there back in the 1930s and '40s."
TRUMP: "Well, I think that's a big, big stretch."
It's more than a stretch. It's a strategy with the intention of not only demeaning Trump, but his supporters as well.
The candidate aside, it is not hard to understand why some Americans support Mr. Trump.
For the past seven years the folks have been witness to the following:
Intense verbal attacks on police officers, labeling them racists who hunt down young black men.