Michael Eric Dyson is subbing on the Ed Show today and during his monologue on the couple who executed the Las Vegas police officers, Dyson linked them specifically to Ted Cruz, suggesting that they got some of their extremist beliefs from Cruz.
Specifically, Dyson said “the suspects likened the US government to Nazi, Germany. I wonder where they got that idea,” and then he played a clip from Ted Cruz’s famous ‘defund Obamacare’ filibuster where he was talking about Nazi Germany.
Setting aside for a second the ludicrous notion that these loons got the idea that the US government is like Nazi, Germany from Ted Cruz’s filibuster, it’s clear that Dyson is completely taking Cruz’s comments out of context.
Cruz wasn’t comparing Obamacare to Nazism or Fascism, he was talking about a defeatist mentality back then among the appeasers that said we can’t beat the Nazis, that said we couldn’t win. It was the same defeatist mentality among Republicans that said we couldn’t defund Obamacare, that we couldn’t stop it.
But hey, if you are going to say Cruz compared Obamacare to Nazism or Fascism, then you’ll also have to say he compared Obamacare to Kennedy setting a vision for America going to the moon, or comparing Obamacare to Reagan beating the Soviets in the Cold War. Oh but I guess those examples don’t sound as vitriolic as comparing Obamacare to Nazism, even though he mentioned them in the same breath.
Of course Dyson also suggested that conservatism helped create the atmosphere for these killer’s anti-government extremism to thrive, and also attacked John Boehner for not calling it specifically ‘domestic terrorism’. How ridiculous.
Michael Eric Dyson is a hack and a despicable person, and I think Ted Cruz and company should DEMAND an apology from MSNBC and ensure that Dyson never sees airtime again for allowing this irresponsible crap to even make it on the air.
Watch the clip below: