MDE BREAKING NEWS: ROWLEY'S BLOG DISPLAYS PICTURE OF KLINE DRESSED AS A NAZI-ERA GERMAN MILITARY OFFICER
This is unreal. Representative John Kline proudly served in the U.S. Marines for 25 years and to have his military service mocked by Rowley's campaign is unconscionable.
Rowley should immediately remove this picture from her blog. Rowley has endorsed this blog saying "I support this excellent blog written by one of our best volunteers!"
Tags : Coleen Rowley
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"unconscionable"? Let's step back from the hyperbole and calm down a bit. If Rowley had Kline goose stepping as a Nazi stormtrooper, standing with Hitler, etc. that would be poor taste, cheap and wrong (Nazi accusations by the left are getting as old as Commie accusations by the right).
But this is bumbling 60s TV sitcom icon Colonel Klink (Hogan!) they're photoshopping and not Heinrich Himler or Hermann Goering. Get it: KlinE v KlinK. OK, not the best humor by far but done in a humorous manner nonetheless.
Heh, beautiful.
This is what happens when moonbats start drinking early and forget to put away the keyboard...they start posting what is really rattling around in their empty heads.
Now watch for the press release declaring that Karl Rove did it!
LOL!
I guess we are really out of the loop!
So the new moonbat measure of acceptable Nazification of US military vetrans is it's OK just so long as the Nazi being used as a model was a funny Nazi...as opposed to the ones shoveling human beings into ovens.
YOW!
It's amazing that some people cannot grasp the concepts of "context" and "nuance". Did you ever watch Hogan's Heros? It was a COMEDY. Klink was a mess, he was a joke (and he wasn't even a Nazi). That's what this blog entry attempted to show photoshopping him into Kline.
That's "Nazification of US military veterans"? ... come on! I would not have done this but I don't think the idea behind this was "Let's make John Kline into a NAZI!" no, someone saw Colonel Klink, turned it into Colonel Kline and went with it unfortunately.
It's not like Rowley's planning to give a speech where Waffen SS troops are buried as Kline's old boss President Reagan did at Bitburg. Now that was in bad taste.
This is hilarious. The liberals are, in turn, defending/condemning Rowley's latest attempt to equate Congressman Kline with the Nazis. Obviously, it was bad enough for Rowley to order it removed from her website. Nevertheless, the liberals are STILL attempting to defend it. Give it a rest and admit that this was obscene.
"Klink was not a Nazi Party member or malicious or evil although he was somewhat self-centered, and was in fact likeable in his own way." So says the Wikipedia article on "Hogan's Heroes."
HH was way before my time, so I can't vouch for the validity of this description, but I assume it's accurate. I don't see this as anything more than a really stupid attempt at comparing Kline to a goofy German officer.
MN55408-Keep drinking the Kos Kool Aid served up in keg cups provided by the DFL hun. Her intent was clear. So is yours with the use of the weasel words in your post.
Instead she weaseled out like the coward she is by taking the picture down not thinking that a zillion people already captured screenies of it. Just like other "nuanced" Democrats like John Kerry who have put some the most outrageous bullshit on their websites and think that no one but the party faithful will notice.
"Klink was not a Nazi Party member or malicious or evil although he was somewhat self-centered, and was in fact likeable in his own way." So says the Wikipedia article on "Hogan's Heroes."
Reality was that you could not be that high up in the German military an NOT be a Nazi Party Member! I realize that HH was not reality, but to say that he was not a Nazi is just another lame attempt to excuse away something that was done in VERY poor taste.
Powerline reports that Rowley personally approved of the image. And to think that her slogan is "ethical decision-making!" What hypocrisy!
I want to preface this by agreeing with the fine Republicans on this site that Coleen showed incredibly poor judgement in approving the photo, it was in poor taste, and should never have been posted.
That said, let's get real.
First of all, let's look at how Rowley handled the issue after Kline expressed his outrage. She immediately acted to remove the photo, she issued a public apology, and took responsibility for it. Since there are so many Republicans here, can someone tell me the last time a Republican took such immediate responsibility for such a blunder (Saxby Chambliss, I'm looking in your direction . . . .). It took Bush months to accept responsibility for the poor federal response to Katrina, and even then it was clear he didn't really mean it.
Second, how about we check the beam in John Kline's eye before working up a fuss over the speck in Rowley's. In 2004, Kline accused Teresa Daly or running for Congress just to get a bigger paycheck. Has he apologized? In April 2004, Kline criticized John Kerry's Winter Soldier tesimony on the floor of the House in a nakedly partisan attack on the Democratic nominee in an election year. Has he apologized?
The worst example of Kline's refusal to exercise the kind of responsibility Rowley showed today (that I know of) came in his 2000 campaign against Bill Luther, when the state GOP ran an ad on Kline's behalf, an ad which according to the Pioneer Press "sets out to tell a lie and does so", and not only did Kline refuse to disavow it, his campaign explicitly stated that Kline "stands by the allegations" (more detail on this story at my place).
I want to be clear: I agree that Rowley made a poor decision, and the fact that she acted quickly and responsibly to fix the problem doesn't excuse her original error in judgement. But we should also be clear that Kline is hardly a model to emulate when it comes to ethical campaigning.
Remember how hot under the collar the dems got when Dan Ochsner posted a photoshopped photo of a campaign rally on his web site???
This beats that out in spades...
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