March 03, 2009 11:08 PM UTC

Who Needs "Swastika Guy?"

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• by: Colorado Pols

After all, you’ve got the Denver Post’s own Ross Kaminsky willing to, you know, go there any day of the week. Check out this latest pearl-clutcher:

Obama’s energy plan mixes fascism and socialism

Essentially the plan mixes fascism and socialism, with the government moving to dominate the energy industry and partly redistributing revenue derived from it, all at a massive cost to business and individuals. (Please think Mussolini, not Hitler[…])

Got it. Thinking, um, Mussolini. Not Hitler. For some reason.

The public may have had blinders on for the giant leap toward nationalization of health care that occurred in the stimulus bill. They feel like they might be getting something, and they don’t yet understand that “free” health care will cost them much more than the current system. But “cap and trade” will be far easier for the public to understand, when they see the cost of everything go up…

O-kay. So where’s the mixture of fascism and socialism? Because we read the whole thing (truly, we did) and we’re kind of not finding any Hitler Mussolini-like stuff here. Not really that “socialist” either, unless of course you think all regulation is “socialism,” in which case, well, o-kay. Fascistosocialism (that would be the term if such a thing existed, right?) it is.

A clue to the veracity of anything being asserted here can be found in Kaminsky’s absurd claim that “free” health care (which nobody is proposing that we know of) will somehow “cost Americans more”–seems really amazing to us since healthcare in the United States by far is the most expensive in the world.

Who knows? The Swastika-bama thing is all the rage these days, he probably just wanted a piece of the action. Come to think of it, “Clinton Raped Juanita” sandwich-board guy could use a new slogan, maybe “Fascistosocialism” is a winner–too many more opinion pieces like this and we’re going to want to see Kaminsky and sandwich-board guy in the same place, though.

Many newspaper people like to complain that blogs are like half-assed attempts at journalism (if at all), and sometimes they’re right. But then why would newspapers choose to make half-assed attempts to create their own blog content? This isn’t thought-provoking. It’s nonsense. Gibberish. And embarrassing for Denver’s only newspaper to promote.