Supporters cheer during a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Mainstream Scream: CNN's Zakaria sees Hitler in Trump, 'Heil, heil, heil!'
It was just a matter of time before the Mainstream Media started to berate GOP frontrunner Donald Trump with the same kind of Trumpesque language they deplore.
The best example came Sunday from CNN's Fareed Zakaria, the Indian-born host of the cable network's top global affairs program, GPS.
During the show, Zakaria compared himself to German Jews criticizing Adolf Hitler during his commentary at the beginning of the show. And he showed video of Hitler receiving at least three "heils."
Zakaria:
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"I think of myself first and foremost as an American. I'm proud of that identity because, as an immigrant, it came to me through deep conviction and hard work, not the accident of birth. I also think of myself as a husband, a father, a guy from India, a journalist, New Yorker, and on good days maybe an intellectual. But in today's political climate, I must embrace another identity. I'm a Muslim.
"Now, I'm not a practicing Muslim. The last time I was in a mosque, except as a tourist, was decades ago. I'm completely secular in my outlook. But, as I watch the way in which Republican candidates are dividing Americans, I realize that it's important to acknowledge the religion into which I was born. And yet that identity doesn't fully represent me or my views. I am appalled by Donald Trump's bigotry and demagoguery – not because I am a Muslim, but because I'm an American.
"In his diaries from the 1930s, Victor Klemperer describes how he, a secular, thoroughly assimilated German Jew, despised Hitler. But he tried to convince people that he did so as a German, that it was his German identity that made him see Nazism as a travesty.
[Shows clip of Adolf Hitler shouting "Heil!" repeatedly with audience members chanting "Heil!"]
"In the end, alas, he was seen solely as a Jew....
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"In the end, America will reject this fear mongering and demagoguery as it has in the past. But we're going through an important test of political and moral character. I hope, decades from now, people will look back and ask, 'What did you do when Donald Trump proposed religious tests in America?'"
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our pick: "Trump really knows how to set off journalists who, as perfectly exemplified by Zakaria, become unhinged by Trump's comments. Trump's policy prescriptions should be debated, but when reporters like Zakaria become so irrational in going right to Hitler analogies, they play into Trump's hand by illustrating media hostility to the concerns of so many in middle America."
Rating: Five out of five screams.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com.
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