Twitter Thinks That Laura Ingraham Made a Nazi Salute During the RNC
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ZeroCypher
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More like: Salute, "Oh wait, this isn't one of the neo-nazis gathering," casually wave.
The RNC is close enough
The RNC is close enough
QuantumZebra
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I'm a highly skeptical person that does not ever jump on these freak-out bandwagons, but come on.
This:
Is dead-on.
Wolfgunblood Garopa
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What? How....
And as with the second plagarism story, it's not as much about proving beyond the shadow of a doubt whether or not this was a nazi salute (it totally) was.
It is about the fact that this campaign is full of people you could see doing stuff like this. That the previously inconceivable has become "Oh yeah, I could totally see her Sieg Heil'ing on stage. That totally fits the tone of this RNC."
And this is absolutely worth talking about, and I'm frankly sick of all the amateur tone policing in these threads. It is so fucking lazy.
Mechanized
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Well that was pretty obviously a Nazi salute alright. They don't even try to hide it anymore. How can any decent human being support these monsters?
RipperGrim
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It just seems like an awkward hand gesture.
The Albatross
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She's obviously waving to people who are out below in an audience because she's on stage, but yeah, horrible optics.
Yea, no bro. It totally looks like one but it totally isn't one. That makes zero sense. All you have to do is look at her history and trumps history with David Duke, his book of Hitler bed time stories his ex-wife said he owns and reads or his his nationalistic platform and America first crap endorsed by Nazi sympathizers.
Hate sex is so good. Particularly mutual hate sex.
old manatee
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I picture them naked and tied up on opposite ends of the room, both trying to get the last word in.
Not at all. Not pausing on it. You can even see on her face the shift between the two modes. Generally a smile starts before you ever have your hand up.
Probably the same way Ann Coulter and Bill Maher did.
The locked left arm doesn't help those optics.
Like how more obvious would it have to be, when we know the Republican Party is actively courting the white supremacist/neo-Nazi vote? Would she have had to do a little stomp to make it more convincing?
Edit: sorry for the double post, just so much drama all of a sudden.
Wafflecakes
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Silly season non story.
GAF should be above this.
GAF should be above this.
Hickbilly Deluxe
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Any reason to bash Republicans, even made up ones, is a good reason apparently.
old manatee
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"Heil Trump!"
"gesundheit."
"gesundheit."
BannedEpisode
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Come on. You are acting like the people who look at photos of Obama out of context to call him a Muslim.
QuantumZebra
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This ^
Some of y'all are acting like it could happen to anybody.
This has never happened before - you don't accidentally cop a locked arm quarter turn salute and hold the post for a split second.
Laura Ingraham has a history of being awful way before this.
Waving to the people directly below her, yet raising her head and eyes to look towards the back of the stadium. Not a chance.
Normal people don't wave by throwing their hand across their body like this. It's an intentional troll heil to stir up controversy.
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To anyone that's saying it wasn't intentional: I challenge you to come up with another time when a speaker thanked their audience by throwing their right hand across their body, holding their arm straight out for a noticeable beat, raising their eyes to the sky, and avoiding smiling until immediately after the whole display was over.
Orbis Tabula
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Yeah. I mean, to all the people talking about her just waving...we know she waved. We saw her wave. We're talking about the part where she is decidedly not waving. Maybe that'll clear it up. The part where her hand is completely still and rigid. That part. Maybe you missed it among all the actual waving.
His Majesty
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if you look long enough you can find pictures of any politician doing a Nazi salute
must be some conspiracy
must be some conspiracy
old manatee
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"What I can't even grow a mustache and advocate that we build a laser dome to keep brown people out without Clinton's liberal media calling me a Nazi."
Ingraham followed up the gesture by publicly thanking far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders on Twitter for his praise of her remarks.
*checks Geert's Twitter*
Of course he was at the RNC. Can you please keep him, America?
Is video vs. picture really that hard of a distinction for some people?
The Albatross
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Yes, that fraction of a second waving out into a crowd.
I think we're all talking about that, on both sides of this.
I hate Laura Ingrahm but the mental gymnastics it requires is astounding to think that shes:
a) Advocating for the Nazi salute
b) A private Nazi who has muscle memory (ala Dr. Strangelove)
c) Signalling some secret Nazi pact
Like, let's say any of those are true, what does she (or the GOP or Trump) have to gain by her revealing her top-secret Nazism at this moment, when millions of people are watching her. If it's A or C, that she's making a conscience effort to signal Yay! Hitler! on stage, how does that help the GOP or her, at the convention?
This is exactly the sort of response that the far right eats up... "Oh look the left thinks Ingraham is making a nazi salut when she's waving to people... They're so desperate!" That somebody photoshopped in the trump wave from the other side, from getty images, just stokes the madness.
Like someone else said, this is tantamount to the right's obsession with Obama being a secret Muslim, who shows his true colors once in a while or signals secret Mohammedean messages to his Muslim bretheren using split-second hand signals and phrases.
It's madness. It's like the virus that festers in the far-right's brain has seeped into the water supply around Gaf Acres and now we're all nuts.
Funky Papa
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Some people are just being willfully ignorant, it's the only explanation
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Straight Edge
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Our reality is a sequel to The Man in the High Castle.
It wasn't photoshopped
If you're looking for a motive, it stirs up controversy and advertises her radio show, and people can defend her by saying "those liberal SJWs don't even want us waving to our audience!" or whatever.
Seriously, no one normal has ever waved that way. Dozens of other speakers at the RNC managed to make hand motions that thank their audience without people mistaking their motions for a Nazi salute. It was clearly intentional.
I mean, basically everyone agrees that it's a troll for attention, not some Nazi conspiracy.
So you can pack your alphabetical straw-men back in.
What is amazing though is the willingness to just handwaive a clear Sieg Heil in the name of "the big picture". That's the madness I'm seeing here.
Not to mention that your notion nobody would intentionally or unintentionally do anything that harms the GOP after outright, on-stage plagarism and backstabbing is utterly hilarious.
googleplex
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She's pretty white and blonde. She could have burned a cross on that stage, and been given the benefit of doubt.
I like how you just ignore that white nationalists in the states commonly use the same salute. The fucking kkk uses it look at post 437 or Google it. This isn't about Nazism or her cheerleading hitler. This is her using a symbol that white supremacists use. You're dense if you don't think she purposely did this for the resulting attention she would get. This picture isn't shopped either but keep going to bat for a disgusting sack of shit it's good look to have.
SecretMoblin
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Superpredators! We have to go deeper!
It's really funny how worked up people get over stuff like this lol
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Her arm isn't straight enough
Superpredators! We have to go deeper!
It's really funny how worked up people get over stuff like this lol
Man Called Aerodynamics
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I get where you're coming from, but these are people who flat-out called people with Mexican heritage drug dealers and rapists and unfit to serve as judges. Among many other slurs against various minority groups. It's difficult to know what's beyond them and what's not.
Superpredators! We have to go deeper!
It's really funny how worked up people get over stuff like this lol
Now find a video of her doing extremely unnatural motions to emphasize her heil and ascribe her a reasonable motive. Then it'll be a fair comparison.
It would also help if she's ending a speech given at a convention for people who are known for flirting with white supremacist pandering.
Melkezadek
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Superpredators! We have to go deeper!
It's really funny how worked up people get over stuff like this lol
Or you can actually look at the video. This isn't just some badly timed screen cap.
ClosingADoor
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I always find it strange that politicians from other countries go to these things to show support for a candidate. Is that just a thing in these far right circles, or did I miss other political parties doing the same?
Ray Wonder
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Ok, what did she do?
If she purposefully did this for attention, and to be able paint the left as "Crazy SJWs that can turn an awkward wave into a Nazi salute". She's succeeding in exactly what she set out to do.
If she didn't, then you're all crazy SJWs trying to turn an awkward wave into a Nazi salute.
I say ignore it. It's only good for her, and bad for the left.
Veritigo_X
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Taking into context that she's an AM conservative talk radio host, I'd say there's a good chance she's an actual neo nazi.
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