BILL WHITTLE GOES INTO THE LION’S DEN:

Now, just before I started, as I was sitting down, one of these four Republican kids came up to me and said, “You know we’re so happy to have you here.  When we heard that you were coming one of our counselors said it’s like inviting Hitler.”  I said, “Did she really say that?”  He goes, “Yeah.”  “Are you sure?  You heard it with your own ears?”  “I heard it with my own ears twice.”  At the same time, they got me a birthday cake. I couldn’t be happier. They were lovely people. They really were. But I mentioned at the beginning that I’d been compared to Hitler and I said, “This is essentially what we have to start from, is this belief that we’re these evil guys.  Essentially I’m not different from Adolf Hitler, with the minor exception that I didn’t start a world war or kill 6,000,000 Jews.  Otherwise we’re virtually identical.”  And it’s startling the amount of prejudice that’s in the air. Forgive me if you’re a smoker. It’s like being around a smoker. There’s this constant sort of a bias. It’s like an odor that lingers with them and you can’t really shake it.  So I told that business about Hitler because that’s going to come back.

It sure does. The transcript to the 38-minute long video is understandably lengthy, but worth it for the kicker at the end.

(Via Maggie’s Farm.)