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UPDATE: White House offers no explanation for Hitler costume claim

By: David Freddoso
Commentary Staff Writer
08/12/09 6:45 PM EDT

White House spokesman Bill Burton's statement on television earlier today that people are showing up at health care town halls dressed up as Hitler was outlandish enough that I had to call the White House and ask if there is anything to substantiate it.

As of this evening, the White House has offered no explanation for this bizarre claim.

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ordi

Aug 12, 2009

No one has seen one yet but I am sure Organize for America AKA the Obama campaign will send one to a Town Hall meeting soon. The Dems claims are usually a day or two ahead of an actual siting. 1st make a statement that gets people looking for what they say is happening then MIRACLES happen - one shows up!

StargazerInSavannah

Aug 12, 2009

I swear I saw one of the White House staffers dressed in a SS uniform with a can of black spray paint in front of David Scott's district office in the dark of the night.
Certainly the rhetoric from the WH sounds like the Joseph Goebbels that I remember.

DaveinPhoenix

Aug 13, 2009

Hey - another bonus for the Cash for Clunkers Program: here in Phoenix, criminal types are using the program to launder older cars used in prior criminal activity. Your tax dollars hard at work !

Rob Crawford

Aug 13, 2009

Maybe they confused a town hall with a staging of "The Producers"?

Trouble

Aug 13, 2009

The Administration itself has Godwinned this thing?

Egad, they are desperate.

Piney Woods

Aug 13, 2009

Sad,as was the brother used by Dem Cong Dingell to pretend to be abusive with hate signs, and then later was handing out Dingell literature.

StepIntoTheLight

Aug 13, 2009

Welcome to 1930's Germany! The president and Administration is truly working to create a shadow government within the existing framework, just look at all the "czars" he has appointed that have NO federal oversight and report straight to him...Can we call this what it really is -- Dictatorship!

The lengths this Administration is going to hide, cover-up, or its attempts to eliminate any rational discussion to its failed policies is disgusting, illegal, and certainly un-American in my opinion.

Hawker

Aug 13, 2009

Without a press to report true and ALL sides we, the people as Geo Washington said, are the only defense of the constitution. We must make our voices heard and do a much more thorough job of vetting candidates for office.

Dio Genes

Aug 14, 2009

I haven't seen anyone in a Hitler costume. But I did see I guy with a gun at a town hall meeting. Not to worry though; no doubt he was a fine upstanding member of a well regulated militia.

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UPDATE: White House offers no explanation for Hitler costume claim

By: David Freddoso
Commentary Staff Writer
08/12/09 6:45 PM EDT