{"id":1373561,"date":"2022-03-13T07:59:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T11:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1373561"},"modified":"2022-03-13T08:01:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T12:01:03","slug":"msnbc-guest-bizarrely-attempts-to-rehab-hitlers-image-when-comparing-him-to-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/msnbc-guest-bizarrely-attempts-to-rehab-hitlers-image-when-comparing-him-to-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC Guest Bizarrely Attempts to Rehab Hitler\u2019s Image When Comparing Him to Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmsnbc-guest-bizarrely-attempts-to-rehab-hitlers-image-when-comparing-him-to-putin%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1373561&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>Standford University professor and former Obama official Dr. Michael McFaul downplayed Adolf Hilter when comparing the Nazi dicator to Russian President Vladimir Putin during an MSNBC discussion Friday on the Ukraine invasion.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>After making the comments on &#8220;The Rachel Maddow Show,&#8221; the former US Ambassador to Russia who served under Obama was blasted for his statements favorably comparing Hitler to Putin amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH: Deleted MSNBC clip of McFaul on Hitler. The network took this down from YouTube. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uuCOtJ9qgw\">pic.twitter.com\/uuCOtJ9qgw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1502754568697917440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;One of the Russian journalists said, &#8216;You know, there&#8217;s one difference between Hitler when he was coming in and Putin. Hitler didn&#8217;t kill ethnic Germans. He didn&#8217;t kill German-speaking people,'&#8221; McFaul said to fill-in host Ali Velshi.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\"><\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;I think people need to remember that we&#8217;re talking about cities like Kharkiv and Mariupol and Kyiv, there are large populations there, you know, up to a third and sometimes as much to a half that are Russian speakers and are ethnic Russians. And yet Putin doesn&#8217;t seem to care about that. He slaughters the very people he said he has come to liberate,&#8221; McFaul said during the program&#8217;s segment.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>The clip was <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/OlKQV\">posted to the Maddow Blog&#8217;s official Twitter account<\/a> late Friday, drawing widespread condemnation on social media. Following backlash, the tweet was later deleted Saturday morning, the <em>New York Post <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/12\/former-us-ambassador-to-russia-takes-heat-for-hitler-remarks\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><figcaption>A clip of McFaul&#8217;s comments deleted by Maddow Blog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>Maddow Blog replaced the tweet with a correction reading: &#8220;The historical record is clear. Hitler killed millions of Germans. We tweeted out part of an inaccurate statement made last night by former Ambassador Michael McFaul without attribution, and we regret doing so. We have since removed the tweet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The historical record is clear. Hitler killed millions of Germans. We tweeted out part of an inaccurate statement made last night by former Ambassador Michael McFaul without attribution, and we regret doing so. We have since removed the tweet. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T33rhM1yPT\">pic.twitter.com\/T33rhM1yPT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaddowBlog\/status\/1502667695745114114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>McFaul walked back his remarks. &#8220;I slipped late last night and violated an unwritten taboo&#8211; never compare Hitler with anyone. I agree. He was incomparably evil. I won&#8217;t do it again,&#8221; he tweeted. &#8220;To those who wrote to me to explain that Hitler committed the same atrocities against ethnic Germans that Putin is committing against ethnic Russians today in Mariupol and Kharkiv, please suggested to me the best scholarly readings on this history. Im eager to learn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After a long of commentary that started with Morning Joe and end with Maddow, I slipped late last night and violated an unwritten taboo&#8211; never compare Hitler with anyone. I agree. He was incomparably evil. I won&#8217;t do it again. 1\/ THREAD.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael McFaul (@McFaul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McFaul\/status\/1502640207622983681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>Among the initial replies blasting McFaul, the Auschwitz Memorial responded to the Maddow Blog&#8217;s tweet: &#8220;On a factual note: Hitler did kill ethnic Germans &#038; German-speaking people: those who opposed the Nazi regime, those who resisted, those who did not fit into the &#8216;Weltanschauung&#8217;. He ordered the murder of people with different disabilities &#038; finally the murder of German Jewry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Learn more about:<br \/>?concentration camps: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BECzWhdSU6\">https:\/\/t.co\/BECzWhdSU6<\/a><br \/>?gay men under the Nazi regime: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TkBC8o8X9Y\">https:\/\/t.co\/TkBC8o8X9Y<\/a> <br \/>?T4 operation: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2yYIOFCY0u\">https:\/\/t.co\/2yYIOFCY0u<\/a><br \/>?genocide of the Roma: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K9FOW49bpj\">https:\/\/t.co\/K9FOW49bpj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AuschwitzMuseum\/status\/1502641821553410053?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p><em>Human Events Daily<\/em> host Jack Posobiec reported that the deleted MSNBC clip of McFaul on Hitler was also taken down from the network&#8217;s YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Here is the deleted MSNBC clip of McFaul on Hitler that they just took down from YouTube <\/p>\n<p>Please DO NOT RT this and expose these clowns for who they really are <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z3phosQz0U\">pic.twitter.com\/Z3phosQz0U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jack Posobiec ?? (@JackPosobiec) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/1502689976412213253?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\"><\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\"><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standford University professor and former Obama official Dr. Michael McFaul downplayed Adolf Hilter when comparing the Nazi dicator to Russian President Vladimir Putin during an MSNBC discussion Friday on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}