Memo from Leni Riefenstahl

I've often said that seeing Riefenstahl's work is why I never fell for the "kool-aid", as Governor Rendell put it.

You forgot one thing:

8) Film when football game is about to start. Just because you've offended most of your fan base doesn't mean you can't *look* like you have tons of supporters.

Speaking of which, they are actually discussing changing the football schedule for this debacle. If it occurs that is.

Clarice Feldman I adore you!!
Keep up the the wonderful journalism the MSM can never come close to, even with a Journalism 101 refresher.

Now, that was somewhat funny.

Some may say the Little Corporal analogy goes too far, but here's a snippet of something interesting:

["...Ideas in themselves are timeless. They are not tied to individuals, much less to a people. They rest in a people, it is true, and affect their attitudes. Ideas, people say, are in the clouds. When someone comes along who can put in words what everyone feels in their hearts, each feels: "Yes! That is what I have always wanted and hoped for." That is what happens the first time one hears one of Hitler's major speeches. I have met people who had attended a Hitler meeting for the first time, and at the end they said: "This man put in words everything I have been searching for for years. For the first time, someone gave form to what I want." Others are lost in confusion, but suddenly someone stands up and puts it in words. Goethe's words become reality: "Lost in silent misery, God gave someone to express my suffering."]

From "Erkenntnis und Propaganda" by J. Goebbels

Clarice - good idea for the title, but perhaps a little long. How about Krystalnacht?

Clarice - good idea for the title, but perhaps a little long. How about Krystalnacht?

On the other hand, this could turn out to be another Sheffield rally, Neil Kinnock's ill-fated attempt at a "triumph of the will" in 1992.

may i suggest a song.

I really like P-diddy's

OBAMA OR DIE.

That will be more emphatic!

Unfortunately, I will vote for McCain this November. Though I must confess I expect too much artistry on this Denver Event.

After all, the city has the same name with my fav, John Denver.

Clarice, funny as always. I was laughing my ass off until all of a sudden I realized..........It's really happening.
To all, keep your powder dry.

That is a great list. Maybe you could add to it a light show and possible a new salute perhaps involving a fist.

"Rainbow fascism" - very catchy

Clarice: Absolutely wonderful. Speer rounded up a bunch of air raid search lights and aimed them straight up around the stadium, forming a "cathedral of ice" as darkness fell. Not many of these in Army surplus anymore, but a lot car dealers still have them.

They also need a slogan for the crowd to chant in unison. Michelle Obama herself suggested as much when she told a women's group a few months ago, "Obama will make you work." Given that, I would suggest "ARBEIT MACHT FREI" for the Obama slogan. Maybe his new Obamajugend members and the brownshirts from the "civilian security corps" he has proposed can march into the stadium underneath an arch with the slogan on it. I'm sure Rev. Farrakhan will approve.

Scary isn't it.

Clearly the intelligent people here have enough understanding of nuance to compare Obama's campaign imagery to Hitler's propaganda machine without directly comparing Obama to Hitler himself. In fact, Obama as a politician seems much closer to a Mussolini/FDR style liberal fascist, which in the long run is more dangerous. The excesses of Hitler forced the world to destroy him. But had he wrapped his fascism in sugar the way Mussolini and FDR did, the world would still be controlled by it. That's why the left hates Hitler - because he went too far and ruined it for all the fascists! They won't make that mistake again, and that's the danger Obama and ever other supporter of the modern incarnation of fascism represents (state-run health care, state regulation of speech via a "fairness doctrine", state regulation of "excess profits", etc).

Fabulous article. Now, let's try to actually fix something. Don't we need to concentrate on who is going to be in the SENATE and HOUSE. If McCain is the best we can do for President, then we had better be working on FIXING CONGRESS! With a 9% approval rating, now is the time to start getting representation in the US Congress.

Perhaps if Michael Moore does the documentary a la Leni Riefenstahl, they could call it THE TRIUMPH OF THE SWILL.

Superb! Ms. Feldman, you've captured the essence of the Obama campaign that no one dare speaks of. I am posting this and a trackback on our blog.

mojo,you got that right. thats why every payday,if i have anything left over i buy a box of ammo.

Please, don't give him any more ideas.

I was neither amused nor scared while reading this. When I started reading her article I had hoped to be entertained. A feeling of dread has come over me. I have started remembering the few images from your so pleasantly dredge history lesson. Forgive me if I don't get all the glib subtleties you suggest. I am relying on my failing memory of pictures left over form an all too poor public school education. Then it hit me.

Clarice - good idea for the title, but perhaps a little long. How about Krystalnacht?
Posted by: Todd Christian | July 9, 2008 03:01 AM

Krystalnacht? I know the facts of my birth in 1958. But I feel the pain of the memory. When the Jews had their property destroyed I was there. I know now like the Jews did then, the Nazi's were trying to kill me and every one that looked like me or thought like me. They were trying to kill all like me for all time. This explains BO's support for abortion. Especially for people like me. Was Krystalnacht in November? I wonder what else happened those few days. What else happened in the world? I don't use google any more. What lies will they tell? What truth will they hide? I have always had a strange fascination with German, the language. I've always wanted to learn to speak German. I know a very few words in German. I've always liked "Deutschland Uberalias". It's a catchy tune. I have always liked the reputation of Ms Riefenstahl, but have only heard about her and or read about her. I have not seen her movies. I keep thinking of the results of her movies. The murder of people like me. I know the writer was not trying to make light of the pain and suffering of people like me or the Jews. I know she was only trying to draw parallels to memories of past history. I know now the rallies were there to condition the people to accept things. Nazi and Arab desire to rid the plant of the dark races. Ride the planet of Jews. Ride the planet of Homosexuals. Ride the planet of Gypsies. I wonder if the Homosexuals that support BO know this? I write BO but what I think is Body Odor. Even if BO wins he will still be the walking dead, body odor of a corpse. When will people see this?

I don't want to drone on about BO. But please see this part;

BO = Death!

I hope my fellow readers of American Thinker can portray to the young rabid BO fans that the above statement is true. How many historical parallels must I be forced to remember before someone out there starts calling BO what he really is? How many more times must I suffer? How many times will he be allowed to kill me?

Back in the days of the Cold War, we used to understand the difference between authoritarianism and totalitarianism.

BHO is promising an absolute State totalitarianism including thought police and punishing all who will not burn incense to the genius of Caesar.

McCain is more the low-key State-business bundler like Franco or FDR or Mussolini.

Hillery was the National Socalist with no charm.

Obama is more like Lenin combined with Stalin with Hitler's spell-binding appeal.

Do you suppose any of the "youth"( people in their 20's,30's,and even 40's ) even know who Leni Riefenstahl was or what we are talking about? That really brings to truth the phrase "Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it".

To answer an earlier question, I think everyone who ever went to film school, or studied communications (and what is the percentage of communications students in universities now- 75%?) know Leni Riefenstahl.

As for the article, I have a sinking feeling in my stomach that right now, someone from the Obama campaign is reading these suggestions and making a 'convention to-do list.' Although we like to believe we're "thinking" people in the U.S., it seems that a large part of our populace can be targeted by this sort of approach. Rather like the pre WWII Germans.

My challenge for Ms. Feldman is to revisit this article after the convention to see how many of her Hitler-esque suggestions were implemented and were successful at the Democratic Convention.

Don't forget the Obama SS for Peace on parade, and some shots of the Nation of Islam guards looking committed. If the Trinity Church choir performs, try to get them not to jump around and scream too much. Let's not take away from our Master. Bump Heil!

Obama just beat a dumb little school girl who had a dream of being under sniper fire (oddly enough nobody asked her if she had EVER been under sniper fire. Personally, I think she heard Bill Clinton shooting in the oval office), and he is already getting ahead of himself. He is revealing himself - we must not ignore the signs!
Also, Leni, he should shoot his heroic appearance on 35 mm film and in black and white. Use Wagner music (it has proven successful in the past), and tell your followers it is the new Sheryl Crow album. They will belive it - you just have to repeat it often enough! You understand? Just keep repeating the it over and over and over.

Thanks for the kind comments.Shibumi--perhaps you can help me keep track.

I think a better name would be .. Reisendes Rettung-Erscheinen Der Bruder-Liebe

You could use the song by the same name.

Not being averse of making some money, here are my generous offers to Obama's campaign:

Music and images:

http://nazi-lauck-nsdapao.com/horst-wessel-lied-die-fahne-hoch.htm

Shirts and banners color: Black and brown do not fit well to Obama's marching youth. What about red ones, the same for banners? Hammer and sickle may be used for as a logo. It looks almost as swastika but much more humane one.

Greetings:

Option one: Slogan - Hail Barak! Response - Zieg Hail!
Option two: Slogan - To the struggle for Barack Obama's dreams be prepared! Response - Always Prepared!

I hope our community organizer may shell out couple of millions to help me out. If not I am sorry but I do not give any more ideas to his campaign for free. We still do not live in a country of free lunches. Not yet, ladies and gentlemen.

A small note: BO name Barack in Russian means either prison camp barracks or barracks as a dwelling for a proletariat. There were plenty of them in Soviet Union. Are we moving there, guys?

Today I gave the Nazi salute to a left-wing acquaintance and said, "Hope! Change!" I though he was going to punch me in the mouth. Try it, but keep your distance.

Keep Kerry away? No, no, no. What you want to do is have Obama march across the field to the podium in an open alleyway between the throngs, with his VP nominee just a step behind him in the place of honor to his right.

One step further back, you have the former nominee, Kerry, on his left.

This is the traditional way of handling things, and if Kerry doesn't take the hint and disappear, there are other traditional methods that we needn't go into here, but which work very well and represent a truly final solution.

ps. You might want to pick up a few hundred experienced "adoring children" and "starry-eyed young women" from your crowd at the Brandenberg Gate, just to salt the crowd with, because Americans have considerably less experience at blind adulation than Germans. Oh, and zeppelins! I almost forgot! Get a couple zeppelins to fly over with the Obama Presidential Seal amblazoned on the vertical fins. This is a tried and true crowd pleaser.

Very scary-his rallys' do have the same qualities.

I am outraged by the comparison you are making.

I particularly like nazi raised arm salute as a substitute for the ghetto "fist bump". I'm going to try it with "Change you can believe in!". I'm also hearing about "no Obama=Riots". We have lost our preeminent position in the world and are about to lose control of our country. To get a taste of what's coming, trying dealing with one of the minority minimum wage Transportation Security gestapo at our make-work airports. Like reasoning with Gestapo-but hey, they got a patch!!!!