{"id":8894,"date":"2010-10-08T23:56:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T23:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/10\/08\/it-is-not-a-godwin-to-say-that\/"},"modified":"2010-10-08T23:56:59","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T23:56:59","slug":"it-is-not-a-godwin-to-say-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/08\/it-is-not-a-godwin-to-say-that\/","title":{"rendered":"It is not &#8220;A Godwin&#8221; to say that this tea-partier is a Nazi"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Atlantic&#8217;s Josh Green reports  that millionaire businessman Rich Iott, the Republican nominee challenging Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D) in Ohio&#8217;s Ninth District, has an unusual hobby: He likes to pretend he&#8217;s a Nazi.<\/p>\n<p>Iott, a tea party-backed candidate, spent time fighting another battle before he hit the campaign trail against Kaptur as a member of the 5th SS Wiking Panzer Division, a group of Ohio World War II reenactors.<\/p>\n<p>According to their website, the Wikings strive to &#8220;salute&#8221; the &#8220;idealists&#8221; from occupied northern Europe who saw the Third Reich as &#8220;the protector of personal freedom and their very way of life&#8221; and signed up to fight for the Wermacht and &#8220;gave their lives for their loved ones and a basic desire to be free.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hat tip <a href=\"http:\/\/deepseanews.com\/\">Kevin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here they are playing:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eZa-dVFE0vg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Nazis.  I hate these guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic&#8217;s Josh Green reports that millionaire businessman Rich Iott, the Republican nominee challenging Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D) in Ohio&#8217;s Ninth District, has an unusual hobby: He likes to pretend he&#8217;s a Nazi. Iott, a tea party-backed candidate, spent time fighting another battle before he hit the campaign trail against Kaptur as a member of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/08\/it-is-not-a-godwin-to-say-that\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It is not &#8220;A Godwin&#8221; to say that this tea-partier is a Nazi<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[306,3868],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2js","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}