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Harper Hitler Reference: Twitter Satirists Gleefully On Ham-Handed Reference

CP  |  By Posted: 04/27/2012 7:56 pm Updated: 04/28/2012 2:43 pm

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OTTAWA - The Harper government is being lampooned on Twitter for invoking the name of Adolf Hitler to beat up on the NDP in the House of Commons.

"It's always nice when PM of your country can get "Hitler" trending again.. sighs," someone using the user name @cdnpoli tweeted.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper first mentioned the name of the infamous Nazi dictator on Thursday during the daily question period.

Fielding questions from the NDP about how long Canadian troops would stay in Afghanistan, Harper accused the official Opposition of being reluctant to support the decision to declare war on Germany in 1939.

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said much the same thing on Friday.

The Hitler references triggered a flood of mirth on Twitter, with jokesters citing Star Wars, hockey and even dental humour.

"The #NDP didn't even support the fight against the Death Star," @danspeerin tweeted.

"The NDP shamefully stood by in the fight against plaque and gingivitis," added @canadiancynic.

@jagmeetNDP claimed the NDP "is the reason the Leafs haven't won the Stanley Cup since 1967."

Dan Harris, a Toronto New Democrat MP, got in on the act Friday in the Commons, poking fun at the Conservatives by reading several of the hundreds of tweets that have poured in.

"In the spirit of co-operation I'd like to offer the prime minister some great suggestions for next week's attacks on the NDP," he said.

Harris also acknowledged that the NDP wasn't actually founded until more than 20 years after the start of the Second World War, and that he was referring to its predecessor, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, or CCF.

The Prime Minister's Office was unrepentent about Harper's comment.

"That the CCF leader opposed war against Hitler's Germany in 1939? It's a fact. Maybe some people don't like history," said Harper spokesman Andrew MacDougall in an email.


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OTTAWA - The Harper government is being lampooned on Twitter for invoking the name of Adolf Hitler to beat up on the NDP in the House of Commons."It's always nice when PM of your country can get "Hitl...
OTTAWA - The Harper government is being lampooned on Twitter for invoking the name of Adolf Hitler to beat up on the NDP in the House of Commons."It's always nice when PM of your country can get "Hitl...
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tyroneshoes
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05:09 PM on 05/08/2012
In fact, the leader of the CCF was the ONLY one in the house to vote against it...his own party voted for it...he later resigned....
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andycan
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08:28 PM on 04/29/2012
The present Cons under Harper would certainly have opposed the war on Hitler in 1939, since they sympathize with so many of his totalitarian principles.
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Spanky McFarlane
ILLEGITIMUS NON CARBORUNDUM.
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02:58 AM on 04/29/2012
Has Harper been watching Hitler on YT again? Man those robo calls really got him going....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maoWzx8zOvE
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vogonpoet42
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08:53 PM on 04/28/2012
Heres another Tory talking point: "The NDP is responsible for Global Warming-(Hey wait didn't my overlords at the Sun tell me that GW is a myth?), ok then; If global warming did exist it would be entirely the fault of the NDP"
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ochaye
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05:43 PM on 04/28/2012
The Hories stood by while the wealth of the nation went to the top. Oh wait, they actively participated in that, didn't they?
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Dale Chan
Hope is both panacea and poison.
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03:48 PM on 04/28/2012
The NDP stood by and watched Rome burn.
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Ascoli
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05:07 PM on 04/28/2012
Fanned for the good laugh
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haddanuff
Progressives think 'We' while cons think "Me"
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05:42 PM on 04/28/2012
... while the cons struck the matches.
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Tyler Austin
Women = people. Corperations ≠ people.
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02:55 PM on 04/28/2012
And of course we all know that when the Space Insect Empire lands the commies across the aisle will be all to eager to sell us loyal human Canadians to the Ant Overlords to slave in their sugermines...
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Dinsdale Pirahna
"lookin' out the 'ole in the wall"
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05:46 AM on 04/28/2012
"...Maybe some people don't like history," said Harper spokesman Andrew MacDougall in an email..."

You mean the history of the dinosaurs and humans walking the earth together?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJPIJ5sVLFI
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Tyler Austin
Women = people. Corperations ≠ people.
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02:55 PM on 04/28/2012
Win.
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ceti
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02:27 AM on 04/28/2012
Glenn Beck Nazi Tourettes comes to Canada, or in Harper's case, it's also a bit of projecting. Never has Canada had a government so authoritarian, brutish, militaristic, corporatist, and jingoist -- all the defining features of Fa$cism.
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andycan
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08:28 PM on 04/29/2012
Beautifully expressed!!!
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sajanorth
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01:24 AM on 04/28/2012
More Tea Party tactics. Too bad the Tories use the same advisors and are not a little more creative.
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Bobo Macoute
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11:21 PM on 04/27/2012
Wow, you guys are grasping to think Harper is not aware of historical record. He corrected himself in the same breath.
NDP and CCF the same thing? Uh yeah, more or less.
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haddanuff
Progressives think 'We' while cons think "Me"
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05:45 PM on 04/28/2012
In the same way that the conservatives are the same thing as the reform?
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Bobo Macoute
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06:34 PM on 04/28/2012
Yup, I'd have to agree on that.
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Taylor Jay
I don't align myself with any political party.
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10:26 PM on 04/27/2012
"That the CCF leader opposed war against Hitler's Germany in 1939? It's a fact. Maybe some people don't like history," said Harper spokesman Andrew MacDougall

But harper said the NDP did not support it. not the CCF at first, Harper needs a fact cheque & he did a stab when he could of just answered the question & it bit him in the ass. I am glad muclair is letting the spotlight stay on harper, because after the robocalls, voter suppression, republican footsoldiers campaigning for him it is only Stephen Harper who can really ruin Stephen Harpers Image.
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andycan
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08:30 PM on 04/29/2012
Bush pollster Frank Luntz was (is) an important Harper strategist according to the Globe and Mail.
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Peter Manierka
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09:26 PM on 04/27/2012
wasnt Hitlerthe right wing guy who had to
control everything and is that not similar
to Harpers PMO.I also noticed that Hitlers

Harper and Hitler:Controlfreaks
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Tyler Austin
Women = people. Corperations ≠ people.
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09:02 PM on 04/27/2012
"That the CCF leader opposed war against Hitler's Germany in 1939? It's a fact. Maybe some people don't like history,"

Ok... neither did the Canadian wing of the Bund.
Your move PMO.
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