Untermenschen

Media Matters, a great source for a little breakfast rage against conservative media madness.

Today, there was an entry about the whack Michael Savage’s comment about the Nick Berg incident,

“Nick Berg, an American, not military, over there building transmission towers, was captured by the Untermenschen the sub-humans, who wrap themselves in a religion. He is seen saying his mother’s name, his father’s name, sister’s name, his brother’s name and then the smiling Arabs cut a living human beings head off as he screams. It’s a blood-curdling scream that you’ll ever hear again. You’ll never get it out of your mind if you’re a normal person, or you’re not given to murder or you’ve never been around murder. Uh, it’s something you’ll never forget, not should you ever forget it and you can thank the Democrats, you can thank the Senate Arms Services Committee for their hysterical hearings. You can thank John Kerry, Chuck Hagel, Biden, The New York Times, the alphabet channels and The Washington Post for this atrocity because they caused it.”

(My bold) My jaw dropped. Untermenschen – is he actually using that term for Iraqis? It has certainly appeared a lot in the media lately, but did he miss the fact that it was popular in Nazi propaganda? It would be the ultimate irony if this term caught on amongst commentators in the US as the term for Iraqis.