Over at PJ Media I discuss what might happen if today’s establishment propaganda media were covering the rise of Hitler and National Socialism:
What if World War II had been reported the way the establishment media writes about the global jihad today? The question is pertinent in light of the ongoing demonization of Trump adviser Steven K. Bannon, who is now being vilified by establishment media for a ten-year-old unproduced film project discussing the jihad threat.
Matea Gold of the Washington Post described the film in lurid terms:
The flag fluttering above the U.S. Capitol is emblazoned with a crescent and star. Chants of “Allahu Akbar” rise from inside the building.
That’s the provocative opening scene of a documentary-style movie outlined 10 years ago by Stephen K. Bannon that envisioned radical Muslims taking over the country and remaking it into the “Islamic States of America,” according to a document describing the project obtained by The Washington Post.
Hate-mongering! Fear-mongering!
Right?
Well, Matea Gold didn’t bother to ask Omar Ahmad what he thought of this. Ahmad, the cofounder and long-time board chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), once said:
Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.
Ahmad now denies saying those words, but the original reporter still stands by her story. And CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper once said:
I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.
Meanwhile, according to a captured internal document, the Muslim Brotherhood (to which all major Muslim groups in the U.S. are linked) is dedicated to:
… eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within, and sabotaging its miserable house … so that it falls, and Allah’s religion is victorious over other religions.
Then there is the Washington, D.C. imam who wants to:
… establish an Islamic State of America by 2050.
Gold mentions none of this. Steve Bannon actually did his homework, and for this he is described as a bigoted Islamophobe.
Gold adds:
The proposal names two dozen conservative writers and terrorism experts who could serve as potential on-screen guests, including Robert Spencer, director of the Jihad Watch website, who is labeled by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-Muslim “propagandist.”
Am I, now?
Imagine if this were 1930, and the Southern Poverty Law Center existed, and it issued a lavishly illustrated, meticulously “documented” report on critics of the Nazis, dubbing them “anti-German hate group leaders.”
They would include profiles of Winston Churchill, Edgar Mowrer, and other early critics of Hitler, noting when each had made false claims about Hitler — false, that is, according to the Nazis — and charging them with “hate” and “anti-German bias.”
Imagine if the mainstream media, whenever it quoted Churchill, Mowrer, or the others, described them as “anti-German,” and noted that the Southern Poverty Law Center said they were hate-group leaders. They would call them “rabble rousers” and “demogogues.” Quotes from Goebbels and Göring would invariably be included, calmly explaining the truth, and patiently answering questions about what a shame it was that they had to deal with the likes of Churchill.
This kind of coverage would be universal: critics of Nazism would never described in the mainstream media in anything but pejorative terms. Whenever they receive media attention, they would be challenged to respond to charges that they were “anti-German” and “spreading hate.” Their views would more often be presented by the SPLC, and others who dubbed them “anti-German,” than by themselves.
The leading authorities the media consulted about Hitler and Nazism would be favorable to both, and opposed only to excessive violence by the Brownshirts, which they describe as inconsistent with the spirit of Nazism. Meanwhile, the critics would be constantly vilified, ridiculed, and likened to the Ku Klux Klan and other genuinely hateful groups. People would write that they wanted to attack them physically, and that it would be legitimate to do so.
Imagine that this situation prevailed, without any cracks in the edifice, for five years. Ten years. Fifteen years.
Imagine that it prevailed as Hitler came to power, as he began persecuting the Jews, as he began his rearmament of Germany, as he bullied weak Western leaders, who were anxious to appease him anyway, into allowing him to take Austria and Czechoslovakia, and finally as he invaded Poland and the Western powers finally decided to fight back….
Read the rest here.

mortimer says
It’s easy to be tolerant of Islam when you haven’t read the words and deeds of Mohammed in his biography (the Sira) or in the hadiths of Bukhari.
It was easy for millions of Brits to pooh-pooh the danger of Hitler because they had not read Hitler’s Munich speeches or read Mein Kampf. Churchill actually read them and believed Hitler would carry them through… which Hitler did.
Mac-101 says
The trouble is that while the left hates Hitler, rightfully so, with a passion they embrace Marx/Lenin/Trotsky and Castro who collectively have murdered millions. So the Lefts major goal along with the Islamist is too destroy Western Civilization, They are allies and different Legions workin for Satan’s goal.
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Remember, these people are NOT stupid. The establishment of a Global NWO is most likely their major goal and it appears Islam will be the forced religion of Satan’s Beast who will rule it.
Creole Gumbo says
Leftists hate Hitler because they are all victims of a worthless public education system that has convinced them that Hitler was ideologically right wing, when in fact he was an extreme leftist with strong nationalism – but a leftist nonetheless.
I like to ask them to tell me the name of the Nazi Party before it was named the Nazi Party. Most of them could not tell you that it was the National Socialist German Worker’s Party. Most of them also do not realize that what Hitler did was a playbook for what Obama did, such as nationalize health care and give away tons of money to the arts and other agents of propaganda. Most cannot tell you the difference between socialism and communism and fascism no matter how much they use this “other F word.”
Yes, one of the greatest switches ever done was to convince the world that Hitler’s ideology was conservative and right of center, when in fact it was extreme left.
Don McKellar says
I find it a remarkable irony that Obama could remove Churchill’s bust and never be confronted by the MSM on it and at least simply ASKED what happened to it. At least not that I remember hearing about. No questions in any news conferences. He doesn’t explain anything until 2016! And yet even when somebody stands in the way of the MLK bust that Obama put in the Oval Office and it isn’t seen in a random photo because of that, members of the MSM go nuts and start reporting on this fake news item. If Trump were to decide to put the bust of MLK somewhere else, would he ever be permitted to do so by the MSM or the raving mob of left-fascists? It appears that, unfortunately, the bust of MLK is now a pawn or placeholder of the Obama regime’s stain, and Trump is stuck with it. Although he doesn’t seem to mind that it’s there and even likes it, so he’s lucky in that respect. As are the blacks of America who have somebody FINALLY in office who is actually going to at least try and do something to equal the real world playing field by destroying crime, cutting off drugs, radically approaching the education system, and working hard to encourage jobs and business.
mortimer says
Robert Spencer’s thesis is valid. Today we are actually seeing a similar approach by today’s media towards Islam as compared to the way the media acted in the 1930s.
Hitler’s speeches and his books were not widely condemned. Only one newspaper stood against Hitler at the time and that was the Munich Post. When Hitler achieved power, the offices of the Munich Post were thrown onto the street from higher floors. The owners and editors of the Post disappeared without a trace. It is by some miracle that Post copies were preserved and today thanks to persistent scholarship we learn about the stories that Hitler tried to hide.
The media today are like the compliant media of the 1930s who were silent about totalitarianism. They were execrable for not doing their duty to defend civilization. Instead, they helped destroy civilization in Germany and destroyed much of Europe as well and tens of millions of lives, cultures and languages. Today’s media are guilty of doing the same things…hopefully, we will not have the same destruction of lives and property due to their cowardly complicity with evil.
penelope says
soros and other elite leftists have bought the msm out. islam is not a group of peaceful anything; look at how they treat women; sharia is an abomination to the planet. all Americans should wake up; educate yourselves on islam and their techniques of deceit; somewhat like the liberal establishment. they sleep together.
Anne Smith says
Why should they all make such a fuss about Steve Bannon’s proposed film when there are already several books out postulating the Islamic takeover of France (Soumission by Michelle Houellebecq ) and the book on Muslim takeover of England, Londonistan by Melanie Phillips?