Photos: Nazi name calling
Williams was dropped from ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” after he compared Obama to Hitler during a “Fox & Friends” interview.
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Disliking viewpoints has spurred Nazi name calling in the entertainment and political worlds. Who’s called whom a “Nazi” recently?
Coulter, according to the Huffington Post, compared the Occupy Wall Street movement to Nazism. Coulter claimed phrases used such as “demolition of capitalism” could have been said “...with only sligh modification when the Nazis were coming to power...” (Jonathan Ernst / Reuters)
Minor disagreements between “Transformers” director Michael Bay and actress Fox spurred into heavy-heated arguments, one resulting in Fox comparing Bay to Hitler.
(Mark Blinch / Reuters)In October 2009, Chomsky compared the right-wing media to Nazis. See the clip here. (Majed Jaber / Reuters)
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Mark Levin, a conservative ABC radio show host on the Mark Levin Show. said Obama’s health care plan was “Hitleresque.”
(PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images)According to Newsday, Sarandon was discussing her film “Dead Man Walking,” based on the anti-death-penalty book by Sister Helen Prejean; she sent a copy to the pope and stated, “The last one ... not this Nazi one we have now.” (Lucy Nicholson / Reuters)
On an episode of “Joy Behar,” Rivers said she had been recently uninvited to be interviewed on “Fox & Friends.” Melissa Rivers said told Behar, “ I guess... my mom made a comment like hi, I don’t think Sarah Palin is very smart,” to which Joan Rivers retorted, “[Palin’s] a Nazi, I don’t know.” (Mario Anzuoni / Reuters)
Tom Cruise’s lawyer Bert Fields compared some Scientology comments Drew Pinsky, “Dr. Drew” made to those of Joseph Goebbels.
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