Bob McCarty Writes

In a Washington Times op-ed yesterday, Tony Blankley outed the mainstream media for having “gone over the line” to the point that they “are now straight out propagandists for the Obama campaign.”  Further, he warned that the American left-wing version of the Volkischer Beobachter cannot be far behind.

Note: If you’re familiar with the Volkischer Beobachter, you need not read further.  If you’re not, keep reading.

German for “People’s Observer,” Volkischer Beobachter was the daily newspaper published by the Nazi Party in Germany from the 1920s until the fall of the Third Reich in 1945.  According to the Britannica Online Encyclopedia, the paper was originally founded in 1887 as a four-page Munich weekly, the Münchner Beobachter. It had become a daily anti-Semitic gossip sheet with a circulation of about 7,000 when it was bought by Adolph Hitler in 1923 to serve as the propaganda organ of his Nazi Party. In 1941 its circulation had passed 1.1 million.

Perhaps I’m naive, but I don’t see much difference between the Volkischer Beobachter and, let’s say, Associated Press, The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, CNN, MSNBC and many other print and broadcast publications.  In fact, I’ll borrow a line from the 1982 film, Poltergeist, and state what I believe to be the obvious:  “They’re here.”

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