February 20, 2009 11:15 PM UTC

"Swastika Guy," they just can't help themselves!

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• by: JeffcoBlue

(Just…wow. So much for spin control – promoted by Colorado Pols)

Based on comments in this post, I think we can assume our friendly anonymous hosts here at Colorado Pols are ready to move on from the “Swastika Guy” story.

If that’s true I strongly recommend they avoid Colorado Media Matters, which is documenting the ongoing self-defense meltdown on the right–won’t somebody please shut these people up, for their own sake?

As a guest during the February 18 broadcast of 630 KHOW-AM’s The Caplis & Silverman Show, conservative author and Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin asserted, “I do not think it’s out of bounds” to analogize President Obama to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, and suggested she would not “disassociate myself from somebody who believes that this administration has fascistic or socialistic tendencies.”

Malkin and co-hosts Dan Caplis and Craig Silverman had been discussing a controversial photograph taken at a February 17 rally staged to protest President Obama’s signing of economic recovery legislation (H.R. 1) in Denver. The photo featured Malkin posing with a person holding a sign that showed a circled swastika as the “O” in Obama. Although she denied having seen the swastika, she nonetheless asserted, “I would have not said to this person if I had seen the sign, ‘Oh, there’s no way I would have my picture taken with you!’ ”

…Malkin also argued that instead of the attention focused on her attitude toward the man with the swastika sign, “the scrutiny should really be on these groups who are funded for a living to discredit conservatives with whom they disagree,” and claimed that “groups like Media Matters and DailyKos and ThinkProgress and ProgressNow … have people who are paid to go to these rallies and take these kind of pictures” and disseminate them to the media to “silence and discredit” conservatives like her.

Hey, Josh Penry, you remember all that stuff you said about this being “over the line,” “totally inappropriate,” “unacceptable,” etc.?

Yeah, scratch all that.