I think putting a MAGA hat on a bust of Himmler and finishing the video by mooning Hillary are ultimately what’s led to most of the criticism.
CLASSY! Don’t worry congressman, Jeeezzuzzz (and Lockheed-Martin) prayed for them “poor souls”!
As he left the museum he spoke to the camera again, saying the world is a “much smaller place” than it was during World War II and said the U.S. is “susceptible to terror like this, horror like this.”
“It’s hard to walk way from gas chambers, ovens, without a very sober feeling of commitment, unwavering commitment to make damn sure the United States of America is protected from the evils of the world,” he said.
And, OF COURSE, the feral trumpers who watch this and cheer, have no understanding that the Nazis were homegrown terrorists.
The terrorists came from within. Whatever message this sh*thead is trying to get across is not only grotesque but completely wrong.
The description of “those poor souls” as Jewish is missing.
Square-jawed mindlessness…I’m hoping he didn’t, also, litter or spit.
Yes, not only were they homegrown, they were…white supremacists.
When I went to Auschwitz, I left my camera on my hotel room, because I wanted to experience my visit, not photograph it. But that was my persona choice. We may think the congressman an insensitive clot, but did he really do anything so bad? We might disagree with his conclusions, but he did not minimize what happened in the death camps, or diminish the suffering of the victims.
Putting my cynicism on full display: Would TPM be covering this if a Democratic congressman had made a video at Auschwitz?
He probably wrote his name on the wall, too.
“The cyanide pellets activated when they hit oxygen. After about 20 minutes everyone was dead and then slave labor would go in the room and drag bodies of those poor souls out and bring them and incinerate them in these ovens,” Higgins said, filming with the camera toward his face as he showed his audience around the gas chamber
Sarah Palin heard about this and thought it was an anti-ObamaCare ad.
Don’t worry, brooklyn. He’s all about protecting us from homegrown terror with his shoutout to Homeland Security. Nothing prevents another Holocaust like getting the unreconstructed, jack-booted bullies of DHS (who endorsed Trump, for God’s sake) to roundup grannies and kids.
They had to call it “Homeland” Security. “Fatherland” and “Motherland” were already taken.
@old_curmudgeon this story is a story here because it was a story in other outlets first.
The yakking in the gas chamber is one thing. The slavish praise for the military is strike two.But leaving out the religion of the victims, and why they were killed? Strikes three and four.
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/07/clay_higgins_auschwitz_video.html
These are his complete remarks. He doesn’t mourn the Jews who were killed, he mourns only “those poor souls.” It’s in line with trumPP’s statement on International Holocaust Day without mentioning Jews. It’s not a both sides could do it issue. It’s an administration that plays to its base’s prejudices.
Here we go again with Captain (Don’t Call Me Congressman!) Cleetus Dimbleputz.
He’s ramping up to be the new Limp-Dicked Louie Gohmert.
Just another Republican making an asshole of himself…
SIR! You have gone too far! NOBODY is another Louie Gohmert!
Wonder if, after the midterms, he will reenact the final scenes from “Downfall?”