Not content with having a president who likes to be beaten by hookers dressed as Waffen SS, and whose father was an actual fascist, now the CEO of the FIA, Bernie Ecclestone, has declared that ‘Hitler… got things done,’ when enthusing about the totalitarian way Formula One is governed.
It’s more of an immature thing to say than actually offensive because he’s technically right. Hitler got the economy going after WW1 by preparing munitions for war, he invaded Poland, Denmark and Norway, occupied Holland and Belgium and bombed the heart of London, he built roads and cars, rallied his own people and he managed to exterminate innocent children women and men on a mind numbing scale and this is why Hitler is an unimaginably insensitive and ridiculous leader to cite.
But Ecclestone didn’t actually say, ‘Hitler got things done.’ He said, “In a lot of ways, terrible to say this I suppose, but apart from the fact that Hitler got taken away and persuaded to do things that I have no idea whether he wanted to do or not, he was in the way that he could command a lot of people, able to get things done.”
The press have plucked out ‘Hitler… got things done,’ and left out the part which, in my considered and measured opinion, should see him reduced to the status of car park attendant.
It seems to me that Ecclestone is excusing Hitler for the Holocaust, that he was ‘persuaded to do things that I have no idea he wanted to do or not.’ Like it wasn’t his fault really, it was ‘others.’
Dismissing this monsters responsibility for the deaths of millions of innocents in the most appalling ways available to the human psyche is the part I find deeply disturbing.
July 7th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Hear hear (or is it here here?!)
The media don’t recognize the real issues because certain words trigger an infantile, drooling Pavlovian response, critically inhibiting their cognitive and intellectual faculties. The media’s attacks need to be thoughtful and accurate- example; when our beloved Prince Harry wore the Nazi uniform the question should have been asked of him and his apologists ‘Who did you MOST want to offend? Germans, Jews, the English who lived through the war, 2 groups from this list or just all 3?’ Ignoramuses should be made to think about why they are wrong by the media. When the press are as mindless as them it gives them a chance to get off the hook.
July 7th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Well said OWAICTT
BE should go on the strength of what I writted. No doubt this entry will be picked up by the worlds media resulting in him being finally seen off, it happens all the time, of course
*goes off to la la land to play with unicorns*