Maryland GOP group distances itself from letter comparing Obama to Hitler: We ‘never approved it.’
Maryland GOP group distances itself from letter comparing Obama to Hitler: We ‘never approved it.’
As former TP editor Judd Legum reported earlier this week, the website of the Republican Women of Anne Arundel County — “one of Maryland’s most prominent Republican organizations” — prominently featured a letter from RWAAC President Joyce Thomann that compared Obama to Hitler. “Obama and Hitler have a great deal in common in my view,” she wrote. That letter has now been taken down and replaced with an “urgent message“:
The article put on our web site by Joyce Thomann was done solely by her. Our Board of Directors never saw the article and would never have approved it. We are not in support of Mrs. Thomann’s personal thoughts ot [sic] opinions.
Ms. Thomann’s husband, Charles, told the Baltimore Sun that the letter “wasn’t meant in the way people are taking it.” He conceded that “maybe she wasn’t as artful as she could have been,” but said the main point was still valid: “The methods that [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi and [President] Obama are using to get the socialist view point across, is similar to what Hitlder [sic] did. … I happen to be a history teacher.”
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What a horrible woman. *shudder* Good grief.
June 25th, 2009 at 3:24 pmStill the right wing nuts get upset when they are called out on their hate and bigotry…
June 25th, 2009 at 3:26 pmFreeMarketLiberal Says:
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I come here to TP for Conservative smearing articles instead.
June 25th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
You come here to reveal your complete ignorance and endless stupidity ………..
June 25th, 2009 at 3:27 pmDid she forget the part where Hitler did false flag attacks on the Fatherland, and ignored the treaty of Versialles to rebuild the german military? If she is a history teacher I fear for her students.
June 25th, 2009 at 3:28 pmoh, she was VERY artful…
doesn’t even take much of an imagination to get “the picture”…
disgusting.
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Thune makes his move
msnbc.com – Domenico Montanaro – ?21 minutes ago?
In the wake of the John Ensign scandal, GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell announced two leadership changes today at a press conference.
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how many “leaders” does the GNOP have?
June 25th, 2009 at 3:28 pmand, i thought one was barbour…
Joyce Thomann is probably FreeMoronicNonLiberal’s mom…….
June 25th, 2009 at 3:28 pmKrazny Says:
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Did she forget the part where Hitler did false flag attacks on the Fatherland, and ignored the treaty of Versialles to rebuild the german military? If she is a history teacher I fear for her students.
June 25th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
I believe it’s her husband that’s the history teacher…….
June 25th, 2009 at 3:29 pmHey, TP. Thanks for including Joyce’s picture along with this article.
Based upon appearances, it looks like she “has a lot in common” with Clarabelle, the clown.
June 25th, 2009 at 3:31 pmI’d like to hear what the “history teacher” has to say by way of comparing the bush/cheney/rove triumverate and the republican-led congress that did their bidding for 6 years to what took place in Germany during the inter-war years.
June 25th, 2009 at 3:32 pmThe next retraction you see will be from the school district in Ann Arundel County denying that its history curriculum embraces the wacky shit that Charles Thomann must be teaching.
June 25th, 2009 at 3:33 pmIt was a Republican women’s group that did the racist “ObamaBucks” thing too, as I recall.
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FreeMarketLiberal Says:
“Chicago thug in chief” ang Hitler have nothing in common…oh wait…polarizing wealthy classes and poor classes…
You’re the ones who are doing that. We’re just trying to fix the country. Most rich people are alright. But you’re the ones who are trying to get a flat tax, kill the estate tax, kill the capital gains tax, and generally give the rich a free pass to ride off of the hard work of everybody else. Most of the people saying this stuff aren’t particularly wealthy (like yourself) but are still pushing the interests of the rich at the expense of everyone else. “Economic conservatism” exists solely for the purpose of inciting class warfare.
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FreeMarketLiberal Says:
…were the Jews the wealthy class in Germany?
Not so much. Typically upper-middle class due to their high literacy rate, but generally across the board as with most groups. But it’s interesting that you swallowed that bit of Nazi propaganda.
June 25th, 2009 at 3:33 pmFreeMarketLiberal Says:
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Someone recommended “Liberal Fascism” but I dont read books…I come here to TP for Conservative smearing articles instead.
June 25th, 2009 at 3:34 pmSo isnt the Bible a book or maybe not?
Husband and wife idiot teabagger repugs, how surprising.
he’s not a very good history teacher.
June 25th, 2009 at 3:35 pmMr. Thomann was Michael Steele’s History AND Music teacher.
June 25th, 2009 at 3:37 pm“The president is like Hitler”
But … please, people … don’t take it the wrong way!! I meant that in the nicest way possible. I’m sure that Obama is a very nice Nazi. Not one of them jew-killing ones.
June 25th, 2009 at 3:38 pm““The methods that [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi and [President] Obama are using to get the socialist view point across, is similar to what Hitlder [sic] did”
I wonder if peepaw used this comparison in class when the repukes held the presidency and both houses of congress?
June 25th, 2009 at 3:39 pmOh, my mistake, Chuckie is an adjunct prof at the local community college. Now I am totally impressed. Pity the reporter didn’t ask him if he had ever heard of Godwin’s Law. Actually, I would settle for anyone asking him how a comparison between Hitler and the president could possibly be taken out of context. I know the Republicans have gotten even dumber over the past few years but you don’t win this argument. Apologize or better yet, since we don’t need another “sorry if I offended anyone” nonapology, just shut up.
June 25th, 2009 at 3:41 pmThe letter wasn’t meant the way people took it, it wasn’t an attempt at an Onion-style satire, but rather an attempt at serious historical analysis. Sad, truly sad.
June 25th, 2009 at 3:43 pmYeah right. I bet she’s only saying they “didn’t approve it” becase they got caught. How long til one of our trolls tries to tell us that the reference was an accurate one?
June 25th, 2009 at 3:45 pmWhile I think it can be helpful to try and convince our loser trolls (FML) that their points are not valid, it appears to me that they are not here to even debate their points. They are here to exhibit just how robotic and conditioned they have to be to defend the failings of their small, thuggish cult. FML shows up and leaves his insignificant droppings on our floor, then is amazed when their tactics are called out.
The trolls are not here to show us anything but the depths of their delusion. FML is an imbecile – the words proved it.
June 25th, 2009 at 3:45 pmThe methods that [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi and [President] Obama are using to get the socialist view point across, is similar to what Hitlder [sic] did. … I happen to be a history teacher.”
At Liberty U?
Ummm, National Socialist Party was a right wing fascist organization. But who would question a ‘history’ teacher…
June 25th, 2009 at 3:46 pmA history teacher who doesn’t learn the lessons of history.
fabulous!
June 25th, 2009 at 3:47 pm“The methods that [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi and [President] Obama are using to get the socialist view point across, is similar to what Hitlder [sic] did. … I happen to be a history teacher.”
And this is the sort of crap you “teach” your students?
June 25th, 2009 at 3:48 pmWould love to see this history ‘teacher’s evals.
June 25th, 2009 at 3:49 pmHis students probably make chopped liver out of him in the classroom.
FreeMarketLiberal Says: I dont read books
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Yeah…that’s the problem with YOU little phony patriots of The Conservative Movement.
You don’t read anything other than LUNATIC FRINGE RIGHT WING websites for your “news”.
Book Learnin’ is too tough for you little fools.
History Teacher?
You get an “F”
as in STFU.
June 25th, 2009 at 3:51 pm“I was misquoted”
“My comments were taken out of context”
“I was misunderstood”
Right. Because taking the time to liken our President to Hitler in writing, and now adding our House Speaker to the mix, was just a simple misunderstanding.
PEACE
June 25th, 2009 at 3:52 pm…but said the main point was still valid: “The methods that [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi and [President] Obama are using to get the socialist view point across, is similar to what Hitlder [sic] did.”
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Um…apparently this guy didn’t even read his wife’s letter. That wasn’t the point she was making at all. She was comparing Obama’s method of pushing his policies to Hitler’s bombing of Poland (you know, “blitzkrieg”), not the way Hitler sold his ideology to the German people.
And this is kind of ironic on a couple of counts. First, Hitler’s “blitzkrieg” could be equated with today’s “shock and awe” — a military strategy more associated with Bush than with Obama. Second, there are a number of us who WISH that Obama would work with Pelosi and Reid to ram through some needed legislation to fix health care, DADT, and a number of other issues. But instead all we get is dithering and waffling, much to our frustration. It’s hardly the “blitzkrieg” Joyce Thomann would have us believe. In fact, it’s kind of difficult to find a whole lot of valid comparison between Obama and Hitler — except that both men could draw a crowd, and both men (presumably) pee standing up.
But she’s just trying to rally her troops, who will obediently mobilize like the koolaid drinkers they are. They don’t care that what she says is absurd, let alone hateful. The Hitler comparison was only there to inflame.
June 25th, 2009 at 3:52 pmWhy are her breasts and waistline in the same place on her body?
June 25th, 2009 at 3:53 pmyawwwn, another angry old white Republican who can’t stand the thought of a black Democrat in the whitehouse. Nothing to see here.
June 25th, 2009 at 3:54 pm`Ass a matter of fact, the Jews were not the wealthy class in Germany–unless, of course, you listened to the Nazis. They created an imaginary Jewish upper class to utilize the populist feelings of the economically devastated German middle and working class–all the while in bed with the real rich–the Krupps, the Thyssens, the owners of Bayer and Hoechst.
Stoking class warfare, but pointing it at a fake target so that the real rich could function unimpeded–destroying unions and supplying factories with slave labor.
On the other hand, the republicans scream ‘elitism’ about a guy who likes Dijon mustard, while trying to keep dynastic fortunes intact by eliminating the estate tax and making profits from stocks less highly taxed than income earned by working–all the while thumping the tub of Social Darwinism.
No similarity whatsoever.
June 25th, 2009 at 3:54 pmObviously, as a teacher of history, this person has focused on flatworms in archipelagiac societies. Either that or she is a bigot.
June 25th, 2009 at 3:56 pmI do love how when some right wing whacko makes a comment there seems to follow some sort of distancing. Could these clowns just spew their idiocy at a distance (say from Neptune) and spare us all?
June 25th, 2009 at 3:59 pm“I happen to be a history teacher.”
Is our children learnin ?
And now can you see why I don’t fall in with the crowd that automatically equates teacher with good ?
June 25th, 2009 at 3:59 pmI notice Mrs. Thomann is wearing slacks in the photo at top. You know who else wore slacks? That’s right: Hitler.
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“I happen to be a history teacher.”
Somewhere there’s a school board that needs to get on the case and get rid of this nutjob. If I lived anywhere near Anne Arundel and had a kid in school, I’d be extremely concerned about now.
June 25th, 2009 at 4:00 pmWow. Old Joyce sure looks comfortable with a highball in her hand, doesn’t she?
June 25th, 2009 at 4:01 pmHoodathunktick Says:
Could these clowns just spew their idiocy at a distance (say from Neptune) and spare us all?
Since they don’t believe that CO2 causes global warming, I’d recommend Venus. That way their faith can protect them from its atmosphere.
June 25th, 2009 at 4:02 pmWhy is this drunk witch hate’n on Obama? I thought the right wing thugs liked Hitlerian tough guy tactics.
June 25th, 2009 at 4:03 pmMs. Thomann, you are pigeyed sackofshit lying hate-mongering racist!
Well, maybe I wasn’t as artful as I could have been, but the main point is still valid.
PEACE
June 25th, 2009 at 4:04 pmoh my, a teacher you say?
actually considering I learned nothing about the history of isreal (among many other things) until college, I’m not surprised at the lack of firing neurons.
June 25th, 2009 at 4:12 pmThese hateful people are amazing. They always accuse others of “misunderstanding them,” when, in fact, people are taking this for exactly what was said. It is meant to destroy confidence in the President and to label him as being “Hilter like” in his words and deeds.
The husband’s effort to claim validity for their hateful view of Obama through his “I happen to be a history teacher” is too perfect! I happen to be intelligent and you are an idiot. So, much for happenings.
June 25th, 2009 at 4:12 pmwow freemarket you’re absolutely nuts!
doesnt the oreilly factor start soon?
June 25th, 2009 at 4:14 pmFreeMarketLiberal Says:
Funny..I thought the Sun caused global warming. Why not plant more trees if CO2 is a problem…
Read up, Skippy. Don’t say I never learned ya nothin’.
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SWBob Says:
The husband’s effort to claim validity for their hateful view of Obama through his “I happen to be a history teacher” is too perfect!
They’re constantly doing appeal to authority arguments. Talk to a wingnut for more than thirty seconds and they’ll pull one of those out.
June 25th, 2009 at 4:20 pmpbeeg Says
June 25th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
`Ass a matter of fact, the Jews were not the wealthy class in Germany–unless, of course, you listened to the Nazis. They created an imaginary Jewish upper class to utilize the populist feelings of the economically devastated German middle and working class–all the while in bed with the real rich–the Krupps, the Thyssens, the owners of Bayer and Hoechst.
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Ah — much in the same way that the trolls and the wingnuts talk about how all liberals are rich. I wish that was true. I need a new car.
June 25th, 2009 at 4:26 pmMs. Thomann’s husband, Charles, told the Baltimore Sun that the letter “wasn’t meant in the way people are taking it.”
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WTF is this supposed to mean? Something along the line of “yes, she compared Obama to Hitler, but she didn’t mean that in a bad way…”?
Gimme an effing break…
June 25th, 2009 at 4:29 pmFirst of all this woman should cease drinking immediately. Pickled obviously. As for her husband, I pity anyone trying to learn history under his tutelage.
This party is a weekly reminder of what racism is. And the total inability to speak in a rational manner. Every week it is something new. But at the base is the same old thing. Racism. If they do not want to continually explain that they did not mean to say what they said, then they should shut the hell up and stop saying anything.
June 25th, 2009 at 4:31 pmAnd the illegal occupation of a sovereign country, the illegal removal of civil liberties, and the kidnappings, torture and murders approved by the Bush Administration, how do THOSE THINGS compare to the Nazi’s, Mr Thomann???
He’s a teacher? Parents of children in his school district should be very frightened of what this man could potentially “teach” their children.
June 25th, 2009 at 4:33 pme_to_the_pOTATO BUG Says:
wow freemarket you’re absolutely nuts!
doesnt the oreilly factor start soon?
FML is absolutely a nutjob – and a traitor to this country. Don’t remind him about O’Reilly. Poor dear isn’t tall enough to turn on the TeeVee, so he has to wait in his crib until Mom gets home. FML is a nutjob, no valid reason for living.
June 25th, 2009 at 4:35 pmHistory at Regent U?
June 25th, 2009 at 4:57 pmamish_edison Says:
He’s a teacher? Parents of children in his school district should be very frightened of what this man could potentially “teach” their children.
June 25th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
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I don’t know if there are many children at Anne Arundel Community College, where Charles Thomann teaches. But theres no question that he’s doing his students a disservice if he’s teaching such a convoluted view of history.
I wonder if the History Department at AACC knows about their adjunct professor’s views on Obama and Hitlder. Perhaps they should be made aware of these views…
June 25th, 2009 at 4:59 pmFreeMarketLiberal Says:
Someone recommended “Liberal Fascism” but I dont read books
You don’t write very well either.
June 25th, 2009 at 5:05 pmI’m calling BS on hubby. He’s lying outright. I taught history and economics for over 30 years. If he’s still teaching, his system needs to kick him OUT of the classroom.
June 25th, 2009 at 5:20 pmI can’t believe these idiots are stupid enough to believe that utter crap.
I had a wingnut tell me yesterday that STALIN and HITLER were progressives.
Good grief. What a maroon. Guess that’s what homeskoolin’ gets ya, eh?
June 25th, 2009 at 5:22 pmWow, I hated Bush, but I would never have called him Hitler…or Hitlder–who was Hitlder BTW?…
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June 25th, 2009 at 5:37 pmThis just makes the whole matter even worse. Disavowing the statements is inadequate; they should have condemned the statements. This makes you wonder what these people are thinking, if at all.
June 25th, 2009 at 5:46 pmMs. Thomann’s husband, Charles, told the Baltimore Sun that the letter “wasn’t meant in the way people are taking it.” He conceded that “maybe she wasn’t as artful as she could have been,” but said the main point was still valid:
Dammit! If Rethugs can’t express themselves in a clear and concise manner, they should shut the hell up! This happens all the time! They can’t ALL be brain dead……….oh, wait.
June 25th, 2009 at 5:47 pmThe article put on our web site by Joyce Thomann was done solely by her. Our Board of Directors never saw the article and would never have approved it. We are not in support of Mrs. Thomann’s personal thoughts ot [sic] opinions.
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This is such Republican bullsh%t if I ever heard any. Joyce may have put her name to it, but this article was a committee piece, you can bet your bottom dollar on it. The piece has all the national GOP talking points. The article was thrown out in the public domain to test the waters. The Republicans want to see how much the public will stomach of this crap.
Hey Joyce, how does it feel to be a patsy, and a real dumb one at that?
I don’t think the Republicans are dumb but woefully pathetic. This is all they have time to do?
June 25th, 2009 at 5:54 pmOur Board of Directors never saw the article and would never have approved it.
Wink, wink…
We would have been appalled, and frankly would only have let it be up on the site for a week or so had we, snicker, known…
June 25th, 2009 at 5:58 pmFreeMarketLiberal Says:
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Hey TP..where is your public corruption fight on this one?
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FreeMarketLiberal,
June 25th, 2009 at 6:01 pmPlease remove your cap. Don’t pay attention to Steele, there is no magic in your cap. I still think it’s adjusted tooooooooo tight, cutting off circulation to your head.
OT but Michael Jackson has died today as well…
June 25th, 2009 at 6:04 pmYou know, if you stretch any historical figure in a direction that is parallel to your own viewpoint, you can compare any political figure to Hitler.
It doesn’t mean it is justified.
For crying out loud, just DROP Hitler from historical comparisons. He’s to be remembered as a figure of blasphemous notoriety, but that doesn’t mean that every flipping politician that disagrees with your own agenda needs to be placed side-by-side with him.
June 25th, 2009 at 6:08 pmSomeone’s Maryland teaching certificate needs to be revoked.
Do the repiggies even have a clue as to how horrible they appear to be outside their exurban habitats?
June 25th, 2009 at 6:43 pmYou probably dont approve of your obesity either, but you don’t seem to be doing much about that either.
June 25th, 2009 at 7:10 pmA history teacher who compares Obama’s attempts to be inclusive and bipartisan to HITLER? A history teacher who says Obama is a socialist, then compares him to a fascist dictator? Said history teacher had better go back to school and take some history and logic courses, because he shows an extreme lack of historical knowledge and his logic is completely muddled.
June 25th, 2009 at 7:13 pmOf course they never would have approved such an overt racist remark — It’s much better to operate under cover of white hoods after dark.
June 25th, 2009 at 7:15 pmYeah, sure they didn’t approve it. And it took how many days for them to make this statement? Lying racist hypocrites.
June 25th, 2009 at 7:22 pmPraising with faint damnation! They should have labeled it as the kind of hate-mongering crap it was–they’re a little weak in the repudiation, methinks!
June 25th, 2009 at 7:50 pmdasm Says:
Yeah, sure they didn’t approve it. And it took how many days for them to make this statement?
Maybe it took them that long to realize they even had a website, much less what was on it.
June 25th, 2009 at 8:03 pmFreeMarketLiberal Says:
Poor nerdy Amanda Terkel…
Dude, knock it off with the stalking already.
June 25th, 2009 at 8:43 pmNot in my lifetime has anyone shown as much hate and immaturity as the liberal left. They use the word hate and call everyone who doesn’t agree with them the most vile names I’ve ever heard. The word hate is now allowed in my home unless you are referring to broccoli or cutting the grass. How sad their lives must be.
June 25th, 2009 at 8:45 pmcjcd,
Beg to differ but the Republican Right has written a playbook on the concept of hate, open your eyes.
What is even more disconcerning is the fact that they have used hate in the name of moral indignation (go figure).
June 25th, 2009 at 9:15 pmcjcd Says:
Not in my lifetime has anyone shown as much hate and immaturity as the liberal left.
You should watch FAUX Noise sometime. Or C-SPAN when there’s a Republican on the floor.
June 25th, 2009 at 9:20 pmcjcd Says:
Not in my lifetime has anyone shown as much hate and immaturity as the liberal left…and more stupid shit…
June 25th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
You’re either very young, or don’t get out much.
June 25th, 2009 at 9:42 pmcjcd Says:
Not in my lifetime has anyone shown as much hate and immaturity as the liberal left. They use the word hate and call everyone who doesn’t agree with them the most vile names I’ve ever heard. The word hate is now allowed in my home unless you are referring to broccoli or cutting the grass. How sad their lives must be.
go to freerepublic and pontificate…Then come back to us…
June 26th, 2009 at 1:23 amCharles Thomann: “The methods that [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi and [President] Obama are using to get the socialist view point across, is similar to what Hitlder [sic] did. … I happen to be a history teacher.”
And a piss poor one, at that.
**eyes rolling**
June 26th, 2009 at 1:50 amFreeMarketLiberal Says:
June 26th, 2009 at 12:29 am
Oh boy does this joke of a troll need a disclaimer:
“Warning: You are about to read some really stupid shit that really never seems to have a point.”
ROTFLMAOOOOOOOOOOOOO
June 26th, 2009 at 1:52 amHitler was not a socialist by any stretch of the imagination. He was a fascist and would have abhorred socialism. And this woman claims to be a history teacher?
Also if this letter legitimately got published without the Maryland GOPs approval, it bespeaks an organization that has no control over it’s members. Still, I don’t believe that argument, because, like they say, it’s always easier to apologize than to ask permission.
My final point is what is wrong with socialism anyway?
June 26th, 2009 at 9:24 amCONFRONT THE 20 PERCENTERS AND TELL THEM THEY ARE FASCISTS CAUSE THEY ARE!
June 26th, 2009 at 12:22 pmWow, what a strong condemnation.
WHO would get the impression this Right wing knuckle dragging mob pretty much condones this kind of crap?
June 27th, 2009 at 12:21 pm‘Not in my lifetime has anyone shown as much hate and immaturity as the liberal left.’
These asshats compare the President to HITLER and and you want to talk about hate on the Left?
Let us know when Elvis gets here.
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You have to admit, David Axlerod does look a lot like Adolf and I am sure Obama wants to be Adolf.
July 1st, 2009 at 9:26 pm