THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2026
So did Dr. Maher: In yesterday's report, we showed you what the messenger children were saying on last Wednesday's edition of The Five.
Hitler Hitler Hitler, the well-schooled children said. They were explaining the way the lunatic left—and the mainstream media—had triggered the latest attempt on the president's life.
On Monday, April 27, it had been the same darn thing.
Fewer than 48 hours had passed since Cole Allen had made his hapless attempt at an assassination attempt—but messaging within MAGA World had changed on a dime.
The Strait of Hormuz was still closed. The price of gas continued to rise. But all of a sudden, the obedient children of MAGA World had new agitprop to pass on.
Already, as early as Monsay, the obedient children were riding the Hitler train. As the first half hour of that' day's messaging ended, Kennedy—the former VJ with no clothes on—was still saying this:
KENNEDY (5/27/26): The media has to get off the addictive syringe of the conspiracy theories and "Trump is bad, Trump is evil, Trump is Hitler, he's a fascist."
It was all the media's fault. The media had triggered Allen by saying that Trump = Hitler!
So the new messaging went. Even after half an hour of messaging, she was still playing the card!
Earlier, the most obvious nutcase of them all had taken a deeper approach. All of a sudden, The Doctor was IN.
DR. GUTFELD: This guy was not a crank. He's not deranged. Don't buy into that narrative, because it lets these pompous asses off.
He didn't do this because, as Jesse said—
He didn't have voices in his head. He was just following orders. He was operating on a filter that said Trump was Hitler and it would be immoral if you didn't take Hitler out.
So his filter is actually making him logical. He's the sanest one in the group, because he took them at their word. When MS NOW says Trump is Hitler, he's the sensible one. He went out—went after Hitler.
Right there on Monday's edition of The Five, The Doctor was very much IN.
Allen isn't mentally ill, we viewers were authoritatively told. He was simply "following orders" from the (unnamed) people at MS NOW who were saying that Trump = Hitler!
So the doctor said. Earlier, the program's resident sociologist had offered his analysis of what Allen's attempt had shown.
First, he prefigured The Doctor's analysis. After that, he told all:
PROFESSOR WATTERS: What makes it so dangerous is these assassins are smarter. These aren't like low-IQ lunatics. If you look at the people that have targeted the president and other Republicans, it's not like they're hearing voices and are disassociated from reality. These are well-educated people who are politically involved,
[...]
The Democratic Party has become a violent revolutionary movement...Trump keeps kicking their butt, and they can't do anything about it. He's pursuing an ambitious America First agenda. So because they're powerless, what they're doing is inspiring their base to violently overthrow the government. And they're angrier, more than ever, because Trump responded [on Saturday night] with class.
A slight distinction could be drawn between the views of the two academics:
According to the sociologist, the violent revolutionary Democratic Party has been trying to inspire people like Allen to undertake attempts on the president's life.
But according to the psychiatrist, it was MS NOW which was really to blame. Unnamed people at MS NOW had been saying that Trump = Hitler. Allen had responded to that in a logical way!
So the new messaging went. Two days later, the messenger children played the Hitler card all over again.
The Hitler card was repeatedly played on each of these heavily watched "cable news" programs. But as we noted in yesterday's report, these messengers never produced a single example of anyone within "the media" or at MS NOW saying that Trump = Hitler.
They played the card again and again—but they offered zero examples! At this point, a quick aside:
On Wednesday's edition of The Five, Emily Compagno seemed to say that "a lot of journalists use words like Kristallnacht in discussing Trump." She said that "a lot of journalists" had "likened his campaign rally here at MSG to a Nazi rally and Hitleresque" (see yesterday's report).
Were such things ever true of "a lot of journalists?" Our general impression would be no—but Compagno was going all the way back to 2024 to cite the way some observers had responded to Candidate Trump's high-profile campaign rally at Madison Square Garden.
Had Allen been triggered by two-year-old comments? (Is it even possible that his triggering had started with his own private reaction to events which occurred two years back?)
Like the children on the TV show, we don't have the slightest idea what set Allen's conduct in motion. In full fairness, we will mention this:
Amazingly enough, Maureen Dowd had actually used the word "Hitleresque," though only on one occasion. This (one) journalist had actually used that word (one time), in exactly one column, in the New York Times.
The column appeared a bit more than two years ago, on April 6, 2024. Here's part of what Dowd said:
Donald Trump’s Insatiable Bloodlust
[...]
My Irish immigrant father lived through the cruel “No Irish need apply” era. I’m distraught that our mosaic may shatter.
But Trump embraces Hitleresque phrases to stir racial hatred. He has talked about immigrants “poisoning the blood of our country.” Last month he called migrants “animals,” saying, “I don’t know if you call them ‘people,’ in some cases. They’re not people, in my opinion.”
Trump’s obsession with bloodlines was instilled by his father, the son of a German immigrant. He thinks there is good blood and bad blood, superior blood and inferior blood. Fred Trump taught his son that their family’s success was genetic, reminiscent of Hitler’s creepy faith in eugenics.
So (one) journalist had said, on that (one) occasion, a bit more than two years ago.
In all honesty, "a lot of journalists" haven't been using the word Hitleresque at any point in this profoundly unfortunate process. Nor is there any particular reason to think that any of that had actually triggered Cole Allen.
For ourselves, we'd advise commentators to stay away from words like "Hitler," even from "Hitleresque." But in all honesty, it's been a long time since we saw mainstream journalists citing the monstrous Adolf Hitler in this particular context.
On the other hand, we see various children citing Hitler again and again on Fox News Channel programs. Last week, playing that card seemed to be part of the messaging strategy the obedient children had apparently received from their horrible corporate handlers.
First on Monday, then on Wednesday, the children played the Hitler card on The Five. Astonishing accusations were lodged—but who had actually been saying that Trump = Hitler?
Zero examples were ever given. In this way, the game is now played.
As we leave you for today, we return to what The Doctor said last Monday. Based on decades of study and clinical experience, Dr. Gutfeld had been happy to take us inside Cole Allen's head.
Allen had simply been taking orders, this strangest child now said. There was nothing psychiatrically wrong with him, the medical giant insisted.
(Professor Watters had said the same thing.)
Saturday night, watching the Real Time re-broadcast on CNN, the analysts suddenly screamed. What have they done with the real Bill Maher, the disconsolate youngsters now said.
Tomorrow: Dr. Gutfeld's medical partner was IN
So, Fox plays the game by deploying the Big Lie — persuading through repetition rather than by demonstration. And our side seems paralyzed and unable even to acknowledge, let alone respond and rebut. Is there anything that can change this basic dynamic?
ReplyDeleteI mean, yes, Trump might self-immolate. That’s out of our hands. But even if he does, the basic dynamic will persist, won’t it?
Which “Big Lie” are you referring to, DG? That “our side” keeps calling Trump Hitler? And yet, Somerby claims no one on “our side” is really calling him that. You are asking “our side” to prove a negative.
DeleteWell, yes, that’s the Big Lie in this particular case. And Somerby’s view, and yours too, seems to be that we Blues don’t have the skill to effectively combat this propaganda technique.
DeleteWhat is the solution in this specific case, DG? Some people HAVE called Trump a fascist and called some of his words and actions hitleresque. Somerby cites a couple of them!
DeleteI just watched a panel of federal judge nominees refuse to say who won the 2020 election and refuse to say yay or nay if trump can run for a third term. Out of fear of our orange king. These should be the best and the brightest of our people. WTF do you expect from us blues?
Delete"WTF do you expect from us blues?"
DeleteFrom these comments, I would guess the answer is: "Not much." And I think that's Somerby's conclusion, too.
But what should they do? I, personally, can't think of anything better than Somerby's suggestion that liberal elites should continuously and vigorously confront, challenge, and rebut Fox propaganda.
Dogface, maybe the right is raising this complaint because it WANTS the left to deny that Trump is Hitler. Some of us do believe Trump is like Hitler and have been saying so, especially on social media. That doesn't mean we are telling anyone to shoot Trump. The right tells its followers that we Democrats are satan.
Delete“vigorously confront, challenge, and rebut Fox propaganda.”
DeleteDG, Will you please speak to the objection that some on the left HAVE called Trump Hitler or hitleresque? Somerby himself cites examples. DiC cited others. Somerby has already previously stated that Trump shouldn’t be compared to Hitler.
"What is the solution in this specific case, DG?"
DeleteI think Somerby shows us the solution. 1. Explain that the message is false -- no significant Dem or main media has been calling Trump "Hitler." 2. Explain that all the Fox programs shifted to this same fake message at the exact same time, indicating that this is coordinated propaganda emanating from Fox headquarters.
People who watch Fox trust Fox. I think Blues should made a full-on frontal attack on the credibility of Fox. The poor folks who watch Fox should understand that they're being played.
I would confront the Big Lie with the Big Truth, which I'd repeat over and over and over and over:
DeleteFox is Propaganda.
“The poor folks who watch Fox should understand that they're being played.”
DeleteGutfeld’s and Fox’s audience watches him because they like what they see. They do not pay attention to the mainstream media. They would never see these “rebuttals” you demand, and even if they did, why do you expect it would change their minds or their voting habits? You have the perfect example of the Gutfeld/MAGA mindset right here in DiC. He reads this blog every day, and yet doubles down on his views. He has already stated here his belief that Democrats are violent and evil.
Besides, the idea that no one on the left ever rebuts this stuff is Somerby’s idea, not the truth. The election lie was dealt with massively by the mainstream media and republicans are just pushing it harder.
Lawrence O’Donnell constantly calls Fox News network the Fox propaganda channel. Has Somerby ever told you that?
DeleteIn fairness, Somerby has acknowledged that the purpose of Gutfeld's show is to spread propaganda. But that doesn't stop Somerby from advancing Gutfeld's memes and talking points.
Delete1:14, so when Chairman Donald says immigrants are "poisoning the blood" of America, we shouldn't point out this is Nazi like language? Just asking.
DeleteHas anybody here driven through downtown DC and seen the giant banners of orange fuck's face hanging from government buildings recently. Fucking Hitler didn't even do that.
Tell orange Hitler I want my fucking Kennedy Center back, maggot.
I personally find Trump hitleresque. Somerby says we shouldn’t say that, but that not a lot are saying it. DG says that no one on our side is saying it and we must rebut the propaganda. There seems to be a level of confusion here, introduced by Somerby and amplified by DG.
Delete"DG says that no one on our side is saying it"
DeleteA slight correction. I'm saying that it's very rare to find any major Dem or any main media outlet saying that Trump is Hitler. Obviously, what goes down in the bowels of the internet (like here, for example) is a different story.
Many people were calling Trump a fascist. Somerby called that an unhelpful “street fighting” term that “we blues” have been using. Have you attempted to compile a list of all journalists who compared Trump to Hitler, DG? Was it a few, or more than a few? How many is too many?
DeleteDiC equates calling Trump a fascist with calling him Hitler.
DeleteDG, I think it is more important to contradict the actual lies being told by Fox, than to keep repeating that Fox spews propaganda. One of my beefs with Somerby is that he doesn't contradict the lies, he just repeats them and says they are lies. That is only half the job.
DeleteIn this situation, I think it is important to say that Trump IS Hitler. That is the truth. How does it build trust in Dems to deny that we say Trump is Hitlerian when that is obviously the case? The more you know about Hitler, the more obvious the similarities. There is also no truth to the idea that calling a politician bad names causes anyone to try to shoot them.
Would it be ok to compare Trump to Mussolini? Putin? Orban? Kim Jong Un?
ReplyDeleteHow about calling him a fascist? (Somerby has already advised against that in a fairly recent post).
Authoritarian?
Yes? No?
AI says
ReplyDeleteRhetorical Comparisons
Many media outlets have highlighted instances where Trump used language similar to that found in Hitler’s speeches or Mein Kampf.
• "Poisoning the blood": In 2023, several outlets including PBS News and The New York Times reported on Trump’s comment that illegal immigration was "poisoning the blood of our country," noting that Hitler used nearly identical phrasing regarding "blood poisoning" in his writings to dehumanize minorities.
• "Vermin": The Washington Post published an analysis in November 2023 comparing Trump’s use of the word "vermin" to describe political opponents to the language used by Hitler and Mussolini to dehumanize perceived enemies of the state.
What bothers you DiC isn’t Trump’s choice of words and phrases but the reporting of it?
DeleteI think DG needs to step in here and set DiC straight.
DeleteDiC is helpfully providing the examples that Somerby found lacking on Fox.
DeleteOf course, the media picked up on that. What point are you trying to make, David?
DeleteIlya - @12:36 is correct.
DeleteDavid -- Huh?
Delete‘In all honesty, "a lot of journalists" haven't been using the word Hitleresque at any point in this profoundly unfortunate process.’
ReplyDeleteYet, Somerby cites a couple who did. So, does “our side” need to discuss what constitutes a “lot”? And “their side” is going to continue making these kinds of statements regardless of any attempted “rebuttal” by the mainstream press, which “their side” doesn’t pay attention to anyway.
"But all of a sudden, the obedient children of MAGA World had new agitprop to pass on.
ReplyDeleteAlready, as early as Monsay, the obedient children were riding the Hitler train."
This explains why Somerby himself started riding that same train in lockstep with Gutfeld et al.
I'm not sure what the problem is with the Hitler comparisons. Is Hitler going to sue for defamation?
ReplyDeleteIt continues to trouble me that Somerby's go-to word for describing Fox host misbehavior is to call them children. That seems grossly unfair to actual children, but more than that, it suggests Somerby holds an extremely negative view of children. This, from a former teacher. How could he have been given responsibility for molding young minds with such contempt for the young people entrusted to his care?
ReplyDeleteSomerby is back to mocking academics, calling Gutfeld "Dr" and Watters "Professor" because they hold opinions about the shooter. Anyone can hold an opinion. That doesn't make it an informed opinion. The reason Gutfeld is not DR Gutfeld is because he never went to med school, never served an internship, residency or fellowship, never practiced, so he has nothing to base his opinion on. It isn't that doctors are all of a sudden silly because Gutfeld pretends to be one. If Watters were an actual sociologist and he were saying silly things, then one might question whether his training lives up to standards in his field of expertise, but that is not the case. Somerby appends the title Professor on an asshole in order to imply that actual sociologists cannot explain what is happening in our society. If Somerby were instead questioning Watters' opinions, he might point out that Watters does not have any training on the subject he is discussing, that he is NOT a sociologist, rather than besmirching the entire field. But look at the specious criticisms Somerby raised about that youth survey, something he does regularly when he dislikes a survey's results.
ReplyDeleteIt takes a lot of work to become an expert in some area of expertise. It also takes access to Case Allen to diagnose him. Anyone can pull an opinion out of his ass. That isn't what actual experts do.
There are experts comparing Trump to Hitler and discussing Trump's moves toward becoming an authoritarian dictator, based on expertise and analysis of Trump's behavior. This is not mere name-calling but a warning about the threats to our democracy and freedom. When supporters of that dictator tells us that we are endangering his safety without such claims, that doesn't mean we should stop trying to defend ourselves and our nation. Trump may worry about being shot, but he also worries about losing in November and being impeached again. We cannot back off fighting for our democracy because Trump fears resistance.
Typo correction: "When supporters of that dictator tell us that we are endangering Trump's safety with such claims..."
DeleteIf Trump doesn't want to be compared to Hitler, he needs to stop behaving like Hitler.
DeleteGive me a break. Hitler killed six million Jews. Trump welcomed Jews into his family. He strongly supports Israel and very vigorously fights antisemitism.
DeleteDavid is being excessively literal. Trump is besties with Netanyahu so how can he have a personal gestapo, amirite? Trump has never worn a German uniform so how could he be Hitler? Look deeper David.
DeleteJust because he isn’t committing a second holocaust doesn’t mean he doesn’t resemble Hitler in other ways. That’s what “hitleresque” means, DiC.
DeleteHilter wasn't greedy for money like Trump is. That meant less corruption in Hitler's regime. But Hitler did designate scapegoats to focus the discontent of his people on for their own struggles (Jews, gypsies, sexual deviants, disabled people, socialists and communists, immigrants and non-Aryans). Trump has just chosen different scapegoats (blacks, feminists, sexual deviants, immigrants and non-Aryans, socialists and communists, Antifa, Democrats). Wait, maybe there is more similarity than I realized!
DeleteHitler didn't start killing 12 million people in 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936. Give Trump time.
Delete@1:29 - You're literally correct, but I think the Hitler comparison is intended to suggest that Trump resembles Hitler in other ways. It's a rhetorical trick Someone says Trump is like Hitler in some mild way thus leaving the impression that he's also like Hitler in Hitler's uniquely evil ways.
Deletefuck you, dickhead. Trump is a fucking fascist. Go fuck yourself.
DeleteThere is nothing mild about the Hitlerian things Trump has already done. For example, invading Venezuela and Iran, threatening Canada, Mexico and Greenland, abrogating signed treaties and trying to destroy NATO and the United Nations.
DeleteSending brownshirts (ICE) to harrass citizens while pretending to enforce immigration, killing protesters in cold blood, detaining citizens, denying detainees health care, holding children in solitary confinement is very Hitlerian. I visited Dachau in Germany. It looks exactly like the El Salvador prison Trump sent deportees to, including overcrowding, poor food, unsanitary conditions. American prisons must adhere to standards, but detainment camps do not. That's very Hitlerian. It is too easy to find these unacceptable parallels between Trump and Hitler.
As we sleep der Fuhrer is having his troops buy up property all around the country to be used by DHS as concentration camps. Hundreds of millions of $$$$. DiC is excited since he missed out on the last Holocaust.
DeleteHitler attacked the arts the way Trump is doing. He called modern art degenerate and specified the acceptable content and realistic style, banning the art he didn't like from museums. He similarly took over music and theater demanding that performance conform to his idea of glorifying German history. Trump and Hitler shared the same ideas of architecture that exalted the reich. Hitler's first act was to purge the universities of Jews and political opponents. Trump has similarly excised DEI and wokeness from schools and universities, restricting what can be studied by denying grants.
DeleteSo many parallels between Trump and Hitler.
I don't know why, but Trump dislikes buffalos and is dismantling protections for the American Bison. Watch Ken Burns' series on the American Bison to see why this matters and what happened to decimate them in the first place.
DeleteIs it uniquely evil to kill 120+ girls in a girls school in Iran because Hegseth is too incompetent to verify his targets? Like Trump, Hitler gave permission to his officers to mistreat his own people by exterminating villages for the crimes of individuals, torturing people, performing medical experiments without consent, raping and killing civilians, and stealing from victims.
DeleteThe problem is that Hitler was not uniquely evil. Nor is it necessary for someone to be "uniquely" evil in order for them to cross boundaries of decency and be worth getting rid of in a leadership position, especially the presidency. Note the way David shifted the goalposts from evil to uniquely evil. Shame on you, David.
DeleteHere is a useful timeline of the evil done by Hitler. It shows how he started out and how his evil accelerated as he consolidated power and implemented his plans. Compare against Project 25 and Trump's works in progress.
Deletehttps://www.jewishgen.org/forgottencamps/general/timeeng.html
Also, genocide doesn't happen all at once. There are stages:
https://hmd.org.uk/learn-about-the-holocaust-and-genocides/what-is-genocide/the-ten-stages-of-genocide/
@1:55 - how can you accuse the Trump Administration of "pretending to enforce immigration laws"? Over 605,000 illegal immigrants were deported during Donald Trump's administration, with an additional 1.9 million self-deporting. Also, the Southern border was virtually shut down.
DeleteAlso, the Southern border wasn't actually shut down by Trump.
DeleteWhen is Fox going to lead with that scoop?
“The Democratic Party has become a violent revolutionary movement”
ReplyDeleteHere’s an example of a Big Lie: the 2020 election was rigged and stolen from Donald Trump. That has been repeatedly dealt with in the mainstream media, yet republicans not only continue to believe it, they are pushing it harder now.
Also, it was MAGA that attempted to stage a violent revolution on Jan 6, so they are actually ok with violent revolutions, as long as they are the ones revolting.
Trump is more relevant, more content-filled than his critics. He addresses actual issues, such as whether the blockade of Iranian exports will force Iran to give up nuclear weapons. Trump's mostly just opponents call him names.
ReplyDeleteOf course, Trump also calls his opponents names. A lot. But, they focus on the name-calling and kid themselves that name-calling is the only way he speaks. They studiously ignore all of Trump's reasonable, issue-filled, content filled commentary.
I thought their nuclear program was obliterated last year.
DeleteHere is another big lie being told by David. Maybe David is Hitler.
DeleteActual issues like take away health care from the poor, kill poor foreigners, bomb eight countries, explode the deficit so it exceeds the GDP, destroy medical research, destroy science research, destroy clean energy while bombing two oil producers and creating a widespread middle east war, explode inflation, etc., etc. You know, the basics. What does it take to break the deranged spell you are under. When do you stop humping his leg just because he hurts other people? Now he hurts you you fool.
DeleteActual issues like the ballroom and that the 2020 election was rigged. Those are the actual issues Trump actually talks about all the actual time.
Delete"First on Monday, then on Wednesday, the children played the Hitler card on The Five. Astonishing accusations were lodged—but who had actually been saying that Trump = Hitler?
ReplyDeleteZero examples were ever given. In this way, the game is now played."
Yes, they should have supplied examples, but this is not a very good defense against the accusation that Case Allen was inspired to attack Trump because of lefty rhetoric.
There is a large body of research showing that exposure to violence in video games, movies, comic books, does not cause violent acts in normal people (children or adults). It has been shown to affect abnormal people, those who are attracted to violence because of mental illness or trauma, including those exposed to real life violence as children or adults, such as abuse or domestic violence. Deadpool is not going to cause political attacks, nor will political types calling Trump names online do it, without a predisposition to being affected by violence. Online rqadicalization occurs in a cult-like environment that preys on vulnerable people.
Somerby doesn't know anything about this, and neither does Gutfeld, but when the right calls for punishment of the left because of political FREE SPEECH, you can bet that they have ulterior motives. Trump is way down in the polls. This claim to victimization on the right is to vilify the left and boost Trump's support. I don't think it will work because the similiarities between Trump and Hitler are too close to be denied. The right should be complaining because Trump is being called Caligula by some in the media. Caligula was assassinated too. But the right is saying nothing about those claims because no one on the right knows who Caligula was. We all remember Hitler.
Every red-blooded Right-wing American knows the only way to learn history is by erecting statues. You know, education.
DeleteI guess what I'm asking is, where did you see the Hitler and Caligula statues?
When is Trump going to have his annual physical and release the results? He is now nearly a month late on that.
ReplyDeleteThis is a legitimate criticism of the media, that they aren’t demanding this.
DeleteThe WH press corps is afraid of their own shadow. They fucking invited Pete Hegseth to the Correspondents dinner. They refused to invite a comedian to speak. When historians sift thru the ashes of this once great nation, the press will be held to account for a lot of the mess we're in.
DeleteHis ugly ass hands are fucked up by the anti dementia infusions.
DeleteIt is weird that Somerby claims Gutfeld is trying to get inside Case Allen's head when he calls him sane, then Somerby turns around and commits the same crime himself, by saying that Bill Maher is not the real deal on his latest show. Somerby is not in Bill Maher's head and cannot know whether he is being real or not, and neither can Somerby's "analysts." They don't exist but are Somerby's cutesy way or declining to take responsibility for his own ideas.
ReplyDeletePeople with expertise, credentials, and research or analysis jobs may have analysts who work with/for them. That isn't Somerby, but pretending he has such people around him is how he mocks actual experts. Somerby is an asshole with a recliner and a laptop, who wants people to take him seriously when he speaks, but hasn't earned that privilege.
Somerby said recently:
ReplyDelete“Is President Trump a fascist? In the most explicit, literal sense, actually no, he is not.
Is he inclined to speak, think and act in the ways which are associated with the last century's fascist movements? We'd have to say that he is so inclined, but that doesn't mean that we Blues are adopting a useful approach when we focus on the specific use of that specific street-fighting term.”
“We Blues” were calling him, not usefully, a fascist, so please stop. (Hitler was a fascist). Not a lot of blues are calling Trump Hitler, supposedly, but … please stop?
Are we hurting Trump's fee-fees?
DeleteWhy is it not useful to call Trump what he obviously is? The right is finally seeing Trump clearly and Trump is losing supporters, both among prominent figures and among voters. It is about time! Now is not the time to backtrack and stop describing Trump's actions accurately. That will make us blues look wishy washy and unreliable, unable to tell the truth about reality as we see it.
Somerby isn't particularly honest here. It isn't surprising he would tell us to soft-pedal our truth, dissemble to prospective voters. I don't see anything to be gained by gaslighting others the way Somerby tries to do.
I mean if you're still on with team Trump at this stage you are just liking him for being nasty to the blahs. What else has Don done for anyone not throwing money at him?
Delete4:21,
DeleteAs everyone knows (but not all will admit):
Anyone who isn't a bigot, or isn't perfectly fine with bigotry, left the Republican Party over a quarter of a century ago.
In some states, it is against the law to pretend to be a clinical psychologist without a license. Somerby's representation of Dr. Gutfeld is not only unfunny but violates ethics designed to protect people against charlatans pretending to have expertise they don't have. You can seriously mess someone up by telling them the wrong things when they are confused, distressed, grieving, depressed (perhaps suicidal), manic, or contemplating major life acts such as getting divorced, quitting a job. Psychologists take that responsibility seriously. Somerby, not so much.
ReplyDeleteThis is one of the reasons why I dislike Somerby. He didn't even take his responsibility as a teacher as seriously as he should have. Who shows The Forgotten Village to fourth graders? Someone who hasn't bothered to understand child development. Now Somerby doesn't understand how psychiatry works but that doesn't stop him from disparaging those who do, such as actual Drs with degrees.
Trump and Hitler both fly into rages. Both are superstitious. Both demand outcomes that are unrealistic militarily. Both were the targets of attempted assasinations, Hitler from within his own military. Both gave very long self-indulgent speeches glorifying themselves. Hitler had a sense of grievance over the Versailles treaty, which he considered unfair to Germany. Trump always has a tone of grievance, returning again and again to his 2020 election loss and failed insurrection. Hitler used his speeches to build hate and fear of designated enemies and traitors to Germany (i.e., Jews), and portrayed himself as a savior, much as Trump does. Hitler called WWII a defensive war forced on Germany, much as the right justified the war against Iran as necessitated by their nonexistant nuclear threat.
ReplyDeleteClearly two crybabies separated at birth.
DeleteThey're nothing alike.
DeleteHitler had a mustache.
"Dr. Maher"
ReplyDeleteBill Maher has a B.A. from Cornell University, majoring in English literature and History. None of that makes him Dr. anything, and none of that has anything to do with clinical psychology. He doesn't understand himself, much less other people's minds.
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