Megyn Kelly and the Nazi question: when -- and who -- can use the word?

[Turborama]

Posted at 9:46 AM ET, 01/21/2011
By Melissa Bell

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On Thursday, Megyn Kelly talked about the Cohen incident with Equality Matters President Richard Socarides.

Socrarides said the Nazi comments were used often by Fox network hosts.

"That's just not true," Kelly said.

Media Matters, the watchdog group http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/02/AR2010120205779.html">with a serious dislike for Fox News, cited http://mediamatters.org/research/201101200037">28 incidents of Nazi imagery being used by Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, New Gingrich, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter and Fox Chairman Roger Ailes going back as far as 2004. The report cited Beck in particular, who has used Nazi imagery in discussing the automobile industry bailouts, Gore's fight against climate change, and the recession.

Toward the end of Thursday's news segment, Kelly changed her argument from denying cable news hosts used similar terms, to saying, "I don't think you can compare cable news to a U.S. congressman in the well of the house."

"Where should there be a higher standard?" Socarides asked.

She said Obama's call for civility was meant for lawmakers, not necessarily for "cable talk show hosts, radio hosts and everybody else."

From: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/blog-post/2011/01/megyn_kelly_and_the_nazi_quest.html

I love the way WaPo are getting involved and exposing Faux news' hypocrisy.

(That 1st embedded link goes to a lengthy article about Media Matters that was written last year, here's the http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/02/AR2010120205779_pf.html">single page version. The second embedded link goes to a really good Media Matters exposé of Faux news' blatant hypocrisy regarding the use of Nazi rhetoric)

[OHdem10]

1. Rep Cohen messed up by using Holocaust which brought the

ADL attention.

[nxylas]

2. Only 28 examples since 2004?

That's an average of 4 a year. Somehow, I thought it would be a lot more than that. Like, 4 an episode on Beck's show.

[Turborama]

3. I don't think that's a comprehensive list

Possibly just some that they remembered off the top of their heads at the time of writing.

For example, I just put 'fox nazis' into the search engine and it's come back with 10 pages: http://mediamatters.org/search/index?qstring=fox+nazis&x=0&y=0

[Rainbowreflect]

4. I am guessing it is more like 28 per day.

;)