Pollak: Media Have Run Same ‘Nazi’ Playbook Against Trump Since 2015Joel B. Pollak 28 Oct 2024
The mainstream media are dutifully parroting the Harris/Walz campaign’s claim that Donald Trump’s rally Sunday at Madison Square Garden was a “Nazi” reenactment.
The smear was invented in mid-October by Democratic strategist James Carville and repeated by Hillary Clinton, before being picked up by Gov. Tim Walz (D) on Sunday and repeated by Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday.
The media have not pushed back on the claim; they have amplified it.
This is the same tactic that the media have used against Trump since 2015. There are countless examples, but one of the earliest was in 2015, when Benjy Sarlin published a story titled: “Trump Audience Member Yells Nazi Salute as Protester Removed From Las Vegas Rally.”
What actually happened: a left-wing heckler interrupted a black man speaking onstage, and was removed; an audience member called him a Nazi and yelled “sieg heil” at him, mockingly.
Democrats and the media who support them have tried, for a decade, to link Trump to Nazis, most infamously in the “very fine people” hoax, which falsely claimed that Trump had supported neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, when he had actually condemned them.
President Joe Biden based his 2020 campaign on the hoax, and Harris still uses it despite being fact-checked on live television, but it began in the mainstream media, where it survives.
The “Madison Square Garden” hoax relies on a reference to a hitherto-obscure pro-Nazi rally in February 1939 at the old Garden site (there were anti-Nazi rallies, too).
There was no “Nazi” content on Sunday, but the media are hanging on a few jokes by a warmup comedian, one of dozens of speakers.
Many Jews attended the rally; some prayed there; and others endorsed him the next day.
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