Comedy Gold: Chomsky Warns of Fascism Coming to America

Courtesy of the evil tea partiers, of course.

“I’m just old enough to have heard a number of Hitler’s speeches on the radio,” he said, “and I have a memory of the texture and the tone of the cheering mobs, and I have the dread sense of the dark clouds of fascism gathering” here at home.

Good grief. He's starting to sound like Tim Robbins.

“The level of anger and fear is like nothing I can compare in my lifetime,” he said.

He cited a statistic from a recent poll showing that half the unaffiliated voters say the average tea party member is closer to them than anyone else.

“Ridiculing the tea party shenanigans is a serious error,” Chomsky said.

Yeah, because if you make enough fun of them then mass murder and concentration camps are up next, obviously. You've been warned.

Of course most of the problem stems from the fact people just can't find the liberal viewpoint anywhere.

“People want some answers,” Chomsky said. “They are hearing answers from only one place: Fox, talk radio, and Sarah Palin.”

Uh, wouldn't that be three places?

Chomsky invoked Germany during the Weimar Republic, and drew a parallel between it and the United States. “The Weimar Republic was the peak of Western civilization and was regarded as a model of democracy,” he said.

Does ObamaCare cover treatment for mental illness among aging liberals?