{"id":731746,"date":"2010-05-23T23:01:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T03:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/gingrich-nazi-comparison-stirs-firestorm-of-criticism\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:41:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:41:51","slug":"gingrich-nazi-comparison-stirs-firestorm-of-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/731746","title":{"rendered":"Gingrich Nazi Comparison Stirs Firestorm Of\u00a0Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Newt%2BGingrich_1961_19790919_0_0_7051296_300.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"Gingrich Nazi comparison stirs firestorm of criticism \" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has found himself in a hot seat for the controversial comments he made in his latest book, where he compared President Barack Obama&#8217;s administration to the Nazi and Soviet regimes. <\/p>\n<p>In <i>To Save America: Stopping Obama&#8217;s Secular-Socialist Machine<\/i>, Gingrich wrote that Obama and his closest Democratic collaborators, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), are implementing a socialist agenda, especially in areas such as the healthcare reform and economic stimulus, according to media reports. <\/p>\n<p>In Gingrich&#8217;s view, these types of policies pose &quot;a great threat&quot; to America, and are comparable to those that characterized Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>His comments have provoked a strong reaction from many groups, including the American Jewish Council (AJC). David Harris, executive director of the AJC, said the analogy was &quot;foolish and dangerous.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It is vital that the Republican leadership say clearly that such analogies are unacceptable,&quot; Harris said. &quot;Unfortunately, as the recent controversy over the new immigration law in Arizona also demonstrates, demonizing political opponents as Nazis is becoming all too common in American political debate.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Criticism has also come from Gingrich&#8217;s own political allies. Former GOP Congresswoman Susan Molinari told talk show host Joy Behar that she wanted to &quot;distance myself from that remark. To compare anything that is going on in this country to the atrocities of Nazi Germany in any way, shape or form is just crazy,&quot; quoted by <i>CNN<\/i>. <br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19790919-ADNFCR\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?w=780\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has found himself in a hot seat for the controversial comments he made in his latest book, where he compared President Barack Obama&#8217;s administration to the Nazi and Soviet regimes. In To Save America: Stopping Obama&#8217;s Secular-Socialist Machine, Gingrich wrote that Obama and his closest Democratic collaborators, including Senate Majority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-34mm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833223,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731746\/revisions\/833223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}