Woman Shouts "Heil Hitler!" At Jewish Man Praising Israel's National Health System (VIDEO)

[Joanne98]

Dear God. This is the way America is now. Some conservative radio host stages a "town hall" meeting. The local news reports that it "was a packed house, full of opinions and no shortage of passion." How passionate? How does some dumb lady, yelling anti-Semitic slurs at another man grab you?

Media Monitor Jon, who holds it down daily on YouTube at NewsPoliticsNews, has the completely depressing clip, which shows an Israeli man holding forth on the virtues of Israel's health care system, which is "universal and compulsory, and is administered by a small number of organizations with funding from the government." I have no basis to judge its merits -- in 2000, the World Health Organization ranked it as the 28th best in the world. That said, let me sum up the countering argument, proferred by another town hall attendee: "Heil Hitler!"

That's right! Some idiot woman yells "Heil Hitler" at a Jewish man who was doing nothing more than being a passionate advocate for Israeli health care. The man, quite naturally, goes completely apoplectic, saying "Shame on you" over and over again. The woman counters by saying, "Well, you ought to be the most against President Obama." The poor man responds by saying, "I want to talk, not against Obama or for Obama. I want to talk about ." He goes on to describe his own experiences with high-cost health care. For his efforts, the woman mocks him some more!

As ThinkProgress points out today, "Conservatives have strenuously denied that there is any anti-Semitism on display by anti-health reform protesters at town hall meetings nationwide." Those denials are no longer tenable, are they?

VIDEO AT LINK
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/18/woman-shouts-heil-hitler_n_262554.html

THE VIDEO IS STILL WORKING AT THIS HUFFPOST LINK

[hlthe2b]

1. video has been taken down by YouTube

[Joanne98]

2. NO it's still up on this link.

[hlthe2b]

8. It is fixed now.... down, earlier

[bluestateguy]

3. If some old bag said that to me, I'd clock her right in the face

I am not Jewish, but my father's side of the family is, and they lost relatives during the Holocaust.

[Naturyl]

4. One of the comments at HuffPo:

"Last week in Alaska, there was a health care reform rally being held in a public venue. As one man stood up and told his plight over his treatment for "lung cancer", the crown mocked him and called him unamerican."

The mentality of these people is really unthinkable.

BTW, I can't get any sound on the YouTube video.

[Joanne98]

6. It's playing fine for me.

[Joanne98]

5. She's wearing an Israeli Defense Forces tee shirt.

http://www.haloscan.com/comments/drdawg/3698670642426321746/#216970

Want to know something really wacky? The woman who yells "Heil Hitler" is apparently wearing an Israeli Defense Forces t-shirt.
Chet Scoville | Homepage | 08.18.09 - 7:00 pm | #


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Good Christ! You're right!
Dr.Dawg | Homepage | 08.18.09 - 7:03 pm | #

[VOX]

7. OMG, you're right -- which only underscores her insanity. (Pic of IDF t-shirt)

[Kievan Rus]

9. The wingnuts are showing their true colors