This is the face of modern American conservatism.

Congratulations America!


Dear God. This is the way America is now. Some conservative radio host
stages a "town hall" meeting in Las Vegas. The local news reports that
it "was a packed house, full of opinions and no shortage of passion."
How passionate? How does some dumb lady, yelling anti-Semitic slurs at
another man grab you?

Media Monitor Jon, who holds it down daily on YouTube at
NewsPoliticsNews, has the completely depressing clip, which shows an
Israeli man holding forth on the virtues of Israel's health care
system, which is "universal and compulsory, and is administered by a
small number of organizations with funding from the government." I
have no basis to judge its merits -- in 2000, the World Health
Organization ranked it as the 28th best in the world. That said, let
me sum up the countering argument, proferred by another town hall
attendee: "Heil Hitler!"

That's right! Some idiot woman yells "Heil Hitler" at a Jewish man who
was doing nothing more than being a passionate advocate for Israeli
health care. The man, quite naturally, goes completely apoplectic,
saying "Shame on you" over and over again. The woman counters by
saying, "Well, you ought to be the most against President Obama." The
poor man responds by saying, "I want to talk, not against Obama or for
Obama. I want to talk about [health care]." He goes on to describe his
own experiences with high-cost health care. For his efforts, the woman
mocks him some more!

As ThinkProgress points out today, "Conservatives have strenuously
denied that there is any anti-Semitism on display by anti-health
reform protesters at town hall meetings nationwide." Those denials are
no longer tenable, are they?

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