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 Juxtaposed against a Nazi-era propaganda film called "The Eternal Jew" we see a story aired by CNN's Lou Dobbs. Both use false leprosy claims to condemn both Jewish and Hispanic immigrants respectively. Included in the video insert of the Dobbs' clip is the late Madeline Cosman, whom Dobbs and his reporter Christine Roman falsely describe as Dr. Cosman but which even Cosman doesn't do, because she isn't one.
She's a "renaissance scholar" and lawyer, and reports that millions of undocumented "bastards" rape children as young as 3 and as old as 79 because rape is ranked lower than "cow-stealing" in Mexico. Lou Dobbs' "medical expert" was not even a doctor nor did she call herself one. To prove it, the clip includes a speech from Madeline Cosman, the "respected expert" used to support a slander against an entire people. In the slide quoting her in the leprosy story and in future broadcasts, CNN falsely implies Cosman is in the medical field.
CNN's "Eternal Jew"
Juxtaposed in the Dobbs' clip is the late Madeline Cosman, a lawyer whom Dobbs and his reporter Christine Roman falsely describe as Dr. Cosman. After he was confronted by Leslie Stahl of CBS over the false accusations, he went on the air the next day to tell viewers "I told Leslie Stahl, we don't make up numbers, and I will tell everyone here tonight, I stand 100% behind what you said." And of course, every single "fact" cited by Dobbs and Christine Roman came from crackpot Madeline Cosman. You really do have to listen to the woman to appreciate how desperate Dobbs is to validate his racism.
What the Movie Led To
 Eberhard Taubert, who wrote "The Eternal Jew", was a lawyer responsible for the law requiring Jews to wear the yellow Star of David. The patch was used to facilitate discrimination and then genocide, to easily distinguish Jew from non-Jew in the German population prior to the deportations to the death camps like the one below, where Jews were used for medical experiments when not gassed or starved and worked to death.
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 Now, if the Southern Poverty Law Center knows anything, it's that a person can be sued for inciting hate crimes, and sued successfully. The SPLC has been monitoring Lou Dobbs and CNN, but it remains to be seen what, if any, action will be taken to address the issue of CNN hate crimes.
Indeed, the SPLC has noted a 40% rise in violent hate groups since 2000 as white supremacists used the growing anti-immigrant hysteria to recruit new members.
The hate crime I am speaking of is the incitement of violence against an ethnic or racial minority. The Nazi film above was designed to promote violence, hatred and fear of the Jewish people in Nazi Germany, and it worked. The infamous writer of the film, Eberhard Taubert, was a lawyer responsible for the law requiring Jews to wear the yellow Star of David. This was the patch that killed millions. How so? the patch, which had to be worn under the penalty of death, was used to facilitate discrimination and then genocide; to easily distinguish Jew from non-Jew in the German population prior to the deportations to the death camps. It was then easy for Nazi and neighbor alike to see where Jews congregated, shopped and where they lived. (The film has been banned in Germany, incidentally.)
It is clear that the deadly lesson of tolerating and accepting hate propaganda has not been learned here in the States. It is clear that there are a powerful few among us whom believe that the threat of violence and genocide is a risk worth taking, for whatever reason, be it political diversion from an unpopular war or pandering to a rival network's racial demographics for ad revenue.
Watch the clip above. See for yourself if the parallels between "The Eternal Jew" and CNN's typical news broadcast don't bring a chill up your spine. And when you're done watching it, ask yourself just what exactly CNN takes you for?
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Both the Nazis and CNN blamed an ethnic scapegoat's immigration for leprosy and crime.
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In both the Nazi propaganda film and the case of CNN, virtually no sources are cited for reference and the viewer must rely on the "authority" of the network or film producers. And even when CNN does cite a source, the reference is misleading or completely untrue.
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In the leprosy story, Lou Dobbs' "medical expert" was not even a doctor. To prove it, the video above includes a speech from Madeline Cosman, the "respected expert" used to support a slander against an entire people. Yet in the slide quoting her in the CNN leprosy story, CNN lists her as Dr. Madeline Cosman. She was, in truth, only a lawyer and renaissance scholar.
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The New York Times takes Lou Dobbs to task for giving airtime to white supremacists and reporting fiction as truth.
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