“Lügenpresse!”

I ran across this October entry from our good friends the commie bed wetters at "Raw Story" designed to suppress calling the media what it is by threatening to tar their ideological opposition as Nazis. [More]

They took their lead from CNN's man in in Washington and "Authorized Journalist Extraordinaire" Jake Tapper, who knows a thing or two about the lying press:

True -- some Nazis adopted it (not to say "journalists" of the period were unimpeachable fonts of truth).

But they weren't around in  the Vormärz period, or when Catholics used it in 1848, or in the Franco-German War, or when "intellectuals and journalists used the term" in  WWI, or when it was used by German Marxist Jews after the war, all before the Nazis ever touched the term.

And speaking of Nazis, don't believe the Lügenpresse Newspeak equating them with "conservatives":

Hitler ... was, at heart, a left-winger.

Just like all the liars in the press calling us Nazis to try and intimidate and shame any ideological opposition. But don't tell Jake.

He'll just call you a psychopath.

We all know where that leads for dissenters when collectivists are in charge. And what it allows the lying press to get away with...