"A FILM UNFINISHED" is a unedited film by Nazis showing life in the Warsaw Getto, some scenes staged, others not. Commentary by survivors and actors reading by diaries of people of the time plus trial transcripts of one of the photographers adds depth and texture. We have seen photos and movies of the concentration and death camps, this is new to me. I very strongly recommend seeing it, it is stage between normal life and the camps. Unless Iott is completely unfeeling, if he saw it, he would beg forgiveness for dressing like a Nazi.

Maybe Boner's only going to meet him to get fashion advice from Iott.
He wants to know what accessories go well with a brown shirt, a long leather coat, and jackboots.

As an old person who grew up in WW2 Europe, I feel like this is despicable, the republicans like to call people names like Nazi without any knowledge of what it was all about.They prove it by not being offended by this dreadful man.Also I cannot imagine America with a government that is bought and paid for by big corporations, we will have come to third world status. There will be the rich and the rest of us who are losing ground every day, this is not a democracy!

"Boehner just doesn't care anymore. He assumed that Republicans will thrive on Tuesday no matter how offensive their campaigns..."

Please, have you been in the 2nd District of Ohio? What Orange John does in Iott's district will have no impact on other districts and the rednecks of Ohio's 2nd won't give a shit.

Once again the Democrats have let the GOP control the message. Sad and pathetic.

He assumed that Republicans will thrive on Tuesday no matter how offensive their campaigns, and he may very well be right.

And one of the reasons he'll be right is the Republican Party's decades-long propaganda effort to brand the media as liberal.

Think of that, people -- the Republicans have been complaining consistentently about the "liberal media" since at least Nixon's time -- and that's just the limits of my own political memory. Sure, few believed then that the press was making up Nixon's scandals because they're liberal and out to get him, but now it's an article of faith among Republicans that they can simply dismiss any reporting they don't like as the product of a "liberal media."

At the same time, Republican policies have encouraged consolidated corporate ownership of the media. And as budgets have declined, so have standards of reportage, so that reporters -- trained to be shy about appearing "liberal" and not "balanced" -- rarely call outright lies for what they are, and abdicate the gatekeeping function they one performed. Today, candidates can get away with simply refusing to speak to anything but known friendly media. On top of all that, they take their cues from a partisan gossip's Web site to such an extent that they created The Politico to be a more professional-seeming Drudge Report.

The media is never going to get through to the 27% dead-enders who make up the Tea Party. But there's no excuse for the media treating lunatics like the current crop of Tea Party candidates as anything resembling like a legitimate candidate that indipendent voters and non-crazy Republicans can vote for.

Steve does a valiant job of presenting the Republican Party's relelntless bad faith and hypocrisy, but the so-called "liberal media" obviously prefers to take its cues from Drudge instead (sorry, Steve, but it's true). We can always hope that Steve's approach will catch on, but he's pretty much a lone voice in the wilderness. What's the Democrats' 40-year plan for adjusting public perception back from crazyland? It's hard to tell, as many of them seem to be working hard to conform to the wimpy, wishy-washy liberal charicature the Republicans paint of them (though, of course, when a Democrat like Alan Grayson is more outspoken, the so-called "liberal media" heads for the fainting couch...).

Most of the Republican ads I've seen demonize Nancy Pelosi - so maybe the Dems should throw together one last national ad showing Boehner next to Iott in a Nazi uniform, reminding people that, if they vote Republican (or don't vote at all), this man will be the next speaker of the house.

No time left for niceness and subtlety.

15 second ad;

"The leader of the Republicans in the house will campaign for a Nazi cross dresser. Remember the Nazis were responsible for the most reprehensible crimes against humanity in the 20th century; rape, torture, mass murder, genocide, horrific war, and facism.

The people who we sacrificed over 500,000 American lives in WW II to defeat. And the Republican leader in the house agrees to campaign for someone who thinks it is ok to dress like a nazi.
Vote democratic. Paid for by the ....

Hey dems. tell me that you have cut the 15 sec spot, and I will pony 200 bucks. right now. Don't worry about his god damn name; Say it over and over and over

The current REPUBLICAN leader wants to campaign for a nazi sympathizer. RUN THE AD IN EVERY FFFF ing district where there might be people who still give a shit....

Grow a pair.

It is not truth that matters, but victory.
Adolf Hitler 1933

http://www.gdn.edu/PT_Faculty/jmallory/index_files/page0508.htm

Democrats wear themselves out trying to find the Overton window. Republicans just move it to wherever they want it to be.

"Maybe Boner's only going to meet him to get fashion advice from Iott.
He wants to know what accessories go well with a brown shirt, a long leather coat, and jackboots."
c u n d gulag

Nazi Party members elected to the German Reichstag
in the 1930's, even before Hitler becames Chancellor, always wore their party uniforms to work. Just sayin.

". . .the most reprehensible crimes against humanity in the 20th century; rape, torture, mass murder, genocide, horrific war, and facism." bigtuna

-"You say that, like it is a BAD thing." Dick Cheney
(re: Postwar American foreign policy.)

Ok, DCCC. I will double down. $500 today, if I see some ads. here is another idea:

"Did your father, or grandfather, fight in WW II? Were they wounded, or killed, to preserve freedom for the world? Did your mom, or grandma, manage the ration coupons? Help salvage cans? Work in an airplane factory during WW II to fight the nazis?"

THen you should ask the Republican leader of the US house of representatives why he supports, and campaigns for, a nazi sympathizer ... Call 202 - Boner ....

Paid for by people with a brain and some morals ....

The budget deficit grew under 8 years of GOP, and is actually now coming down under Obama. Combat troops in Iraq under Bush now are gone under Obama. The Recession started under Bush has now been stopped under Obama. Minimum wage is up and the middle class got a tax cut under Obama...poll after poll show people favoring Dems over GOP....yet people who normally vote Dem and voted for Obama are now, according to reports all across the country, planning to vote GOP, even for candidates they have no agreement with. Why is that? Is it as simple as black and white. Have we massively underestimated the amount of racial animosity that still exists in this country?

Someone desperately needs to rent a Nazi SS uniform, storm into the Lucas County repub HQ, point at Boehner, and shout, "Vaht is zis man doing here?"

Hey, cut the guy some slack. So he dresses like a Nazi, who doesn't every now and then. I see people dressing up like Confederates for war re-enactments. Hell, even Reagan wore the Nazi uniform. Reagan was a Nazi!

At least Iott is going to lose:

http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/forecasts/house/ohio/9

I have no respect for Boehner or Iott (or many Republicans today, for that matter), but if this is the "issue" that affects the election then the voters really are as stupid as the GOP expects them to be... and the people who continue to harp on this "issue" are not scoring any points in the intellectual department, either.

I don't participate in historical reenactments (whether of the US Civil War, WWII, or Renaissance Festival/SCA ilks), but I don't have a problem with those who do. If you are going to reenact a battle, then *somebody* has got to portray the enemy, just as when kids play "cops and robbers" or "cowboys and injuns" or whatever other non-PC roleplaying activity they choose to pursue for entertainment.

So, if there's going to be a restaging of a WWII battle, then someone really does need to dress up as a Nazi. It does not mean, nor even merely imply, that said actor identifies with, sympathizes with, or supports the goals of the German National Socialist Party (or any of its latter-day descendants). It simply means that they put on a costume and played a role.

Please, Mr. Benen, get off this subject. It's far too stupid, and the stupid is rubbing off onto you.

Remember Tea Party Republicans angrily waving around signs with Obama made up to look like Hitler?

Now, they are lining up to vote for a guy who actually does dress up like a Nazi. Who glorifies Nazis. Who fantasizes about being a Nazi.

Nothing can be done to dissuade Republican Tea Party voters from voting Republican, because the most important thing to them is to put white men back in charge, let's face it. Even if said white men were to eat their first-born babies in living color on Fox News, it's better to this crowd to have white men in charge who can't wait to make them suffer, than to have a black man and a diverse Congress in charge who will bring them jobs, healthcare, clean energy and tax cuts, to name a few things.

people who normally vote Dem and voted for Obama are now, according to reports all across the country, planning to vote GOP, even for candidates they have no agreement with. Why is that?

Why? I wouldn't chalk it all up to racial animus, because despite all the statistics you cite, they don't feel that things have gotten better. Since the Democrats are running the show, they must be replaced.

Of course there is some racial animus mixed up in there as well, no doubt about that. Undoubtedly, there are some mildy racist voters who pulled the switch for Obama in order to salve their consciences (See? I'm not a racist!"),who are now ready to let loose their inner bigot. But most of the racist rhetoric comes from, as usual, the far right.

most important thing to them is to put white men back in charge

Absolutely true. I remember reading a brief interviewer some teabagger who was asked if her fervent opposition to all things Obama was because he was black and in a rare moment of clarity she said something along the lines of "it's not just because he's black."

The man is not a Nazi sympathizer and it's ridiculous to suggest he is. The man is a war re-enactor, and has dressed up and protrayed characters on both sides of various war engagements. That makes him a geek, not a Nazi.

Dems are poised to be swept out of power because they're out of touch with an electorate that doesn't like their policies. I guess they have the same lack of ability to distinguish fantasy from reality that you do.

@Bob L: I watched the recruitment video of Iott's outfit and read some of their materials. The reason they created this outfit is because they ADMIRE and RESPECT the particular Nazi platoon they are mimic-ing. This is their homage to that Nazi platoon. In their little fantasies, AMERICAN WW II TROOPS are the enemy, not the Nazis.

They are not "playing the enemy" - they are fantasizing about being Nazis that they admire.

I would certainly tag that as "sympathizing with Nazis."

er, Bob L, Iott did not pick some Wehrmacht outfit, but, he chose the 5th Waffen SS Panzer Division, of whom, Dr Mengele, served as a medic and members of said unit were involved with war crimes.

So, when Bohner and Iott said together singing, "Those were the days my friends, we thought they'd never end.............we'd fight and never lose, yes, those were the days", it will be just some good ol' college fun, eh?

However, it is interesting that Bohner, who was in K-12 from '56 to '68 in Ohio, speaks of returning to those days. You mean the days when kids worked in grocery stores in order to save for college? Geez, we would be returning from the present days of college grads, many with multiple degrees, working in grocery stores in order to survive. We have the highest educated grocery store workforce ever. Great though being able to discuss Proust with your produce clerk.

Godwin's Law in full effect

Bob L. Bullshit. There are, or, there were, lines that should never be crossed. Dressing up like a Nazi is to me expressing some sense of sympathy. Do not give me the re-enactment crap. That is pathetic cover for representing, in any form, an abhorrent group of people. The grotesque dumbing down of the true atrocities [by the hitler imagry of Obama, for exa], dressing like a Nazi, etc., trivialize what happened, and sends all the wrong messages. For someone to run for public office and having done this is even worse.

ps. still waiting for the ads. What does it take? The republicans have either in office, or soon to be, whore-mongers, adulterers, theives, liars, and con artists. These are all proven. Now we add nazi enactor....

DRESS like a Nazi, play Nazi war games, support a group whose web page glosses over atrocities, and PEOPLE WILL THINK YOU ARE A NAZI.

Cut to commercial:
I'm not a Nazi, I just play one on weekends.

Fuck that. If this was Germany, which knows Nazis when they see them, this guy would be in jail.

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