Allahpundit first brought this to my attention with a tweet that simply read:

Is this a joke? http://bit.ly/1RxvKK

The link went to a Weekly Standard post by the lovely Mary Katherine Ham, detailing White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs’ lamentation concerning the rhetoric of those who protest Dear Leader:

“I will continue to say what I’ve said before. You hear in this debate, you hear analogies, you hear references to, you see pictures about and depictions of individuals that are truly stunning, and you hear it all the time. People — imagine five years ago somebody comparing health care reform to 9/11. Imagine just a few years ago had somebody walked around with images of Hitler.

Ham unloads:

Let’s see if we can imagine that, Bob. Click here, and just keep scrolling.

Or, here. You will be scrolling for a solid five minutes to exhaust the Hitler images employed by the left for eight solid years against Bush, and that’s in just two blog posts. They were ubiquitous; far more prevalent that Nazi imagery in the Tea Party movement. Saying what Gibbs said, or repeating it credulously, requires an incredible amount of dishonesty.

Hmm, let’s try a search on Flickr, just so we’re sure I’m not cherry-picking.

It’s very telling that Gibbs can make such an outrageous statement. He must be very comfortable with these folks to say something so obviously false.

Of course there were Bush-Hitler signs five years ago. There were Bush-Hitler signs under construction for eight years straight. I’ll put money down that somewhere is a Bush-Hitler sign sweatshop still pumping out protest signs.

And finally, the Obama Hitler signs aren’t from the average conservative. They are from the LaRouchies. Click the link. They have it on their website.

And the LaRouchies are not right wingers. They’re just plain crazy:

The organization’s ideology is hard to pin down. The NCLC started in the late 1960s as a left-wing Marxist sect and then shifted to the far right in the mid-1970s. Its philosophy now is a thick stew of political ingredients. Some people have publicly expressed doubts that the shift to the right was authentic and believe LaRouche is secretly still a Marxist.

With the move from left to right, the group’s perceived enemies shifted as well. But one fear remained constant: that LaRouche is branded for assassination.

Supporters think they are acting defensively and appropriately when they telephone critics of the group and threaten them, or follow them on the street, published reports and former members said.

“There is some horrible psychological craziness in this group,” said one defector.

For eight years Bush tolerated the nastiest attacks, not only on him but on his wife and kids. To pretend everything was roses and sunshine is not only disingenuous, it’s outright insulting. Or, Gibbs could have meant it, which makes him an total idiot.

Either way is believable.

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