The Rahm With a Song in His Heart
Rival Moseley Braun makes weird, kinda troubling Hitler remark
February 14, 2011
Carol Moseley Braun last month.(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Well, here is some ammunition for the thesis, most prominently pushed by Rachel Shteir in Tablet Magazine, that a prime obstacle Rahm Emanuel faces to becoming mayor of Chicago is latent anti-Semitism in the Windy City: Over the weekend, his primary rival, Carol Moseley Braun—she ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 and was the only black female senator in U.S. history—compared Emanuel to, well, Hitler … sorta:
“The joke in it was, he was a kind man, a gentle man,” said Moseley Braun about comments [about Hitler] in Mel Brooks’ satirical movie [The Producers]. “We are getting the kind man, the gentle man on television.”
She later clarified that she didn’t actually mean to compare Emanuel to Hitler, in, y’know, that way. Personally, I buy it. Still: Awkward!
To read The Rahm Report, all of Rachel Shteir’s dispatches on the campaign, go here.
Carol Moseley Braun Wins Cornel West Endorsement, Compares Rahm’s Ad Persona To Hitler [HuffPo]
Related: Out of the Loop [Tablet Magazine]
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.
