Ben Shapiro Here"s How Pro-Lifers Would Deal with Baby Hitler

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Ben Shapiro Here"s How Pro-Lifers Would Deal with Baby Hitler

Erykah Badu: I Love Bill Cosby! Hitler Had Good in Him!

Erykah Badu is known for her music and acting, but perhaps better known for her activism. Also, for that time when she feuded with Iggy Azalea.

Now she’s getting seriously slammed for some wildly controversial statements. Some of her loudest critics are people who admired her until now.

Because, well, you shouldn’t say nice things about Bill Cosby or Hitler, but you definitely shouldn’t say nice things about both of them.

Erykah Badu’s been part of controversies before. That goes with the territory when you’re an outspoken activist.

It also happens a lot when you’re, um, weird. One time she tried to kiss a reporter during a live broadcast. Like we said, weird.

But nothing that she’s said was so powerfully stunning … or, quite frankly, upsetting … as the comments in a Vulture interview in which Erykah Badu praises the “good” in Hitler and says that she “loves” Bill Cosby.

“I’m a humanist. I see good in everybody. I saw something good in Hitler.”

“Hitler was a wonderful painter.”

He was literally not. That’s why he so famously got rejected from art school.

Erykah admits that he wasn’t such a great painter. She keeps talking about HItler, though.

“Poor thing. He had a terrible childhood.”

That’s true. But so did millions and millions of people. A bad childhood might excuse weird behavior as a child or some obvious psychiatric problems as an adult. Not, um, genocide.

“That means that when I’m looking at my daughter, Mars, I could imagine her being in someone else’s home and being treated so poorly, and what that could spawn.”

It’s horrible to imagine how much worse someone you love’s life could be and where that would lead them. But if the answer is “genocide,” then there’s something wrong with them. Intrinsically.

(We’re not saying anything bad about Mars, just that Erykah is way off to the side in the nature-vs-nurture argument and needs to come back towards the center)

“I see things like that. I guess it’s just the Pisces in me.”

Ah, the old I-defended-Hitler-because-astrology-made-me defense.

“Why can’t I say what I’m saying? Because he did such terrible things?”

Yes, Erykah. Literally because he killed 11 million people in the Holocaust (6 million of whom were Jews), and because tens of millions of other people died in a war that he lead.

She clarifies that she’s not defending Hitler’s ideology in any way.

“I’m not an anti-Semitic person.”

For the record, I totally believe that. She’s not antisemitic, she’s just saying dumb stuff and digging herself deeper into a hole in the name of empathy.

And then Erykah decides to double down, by saying nice things about another absolute monster.

“I love Bill Cosby, and I love what he’s done for the world.”

We all know what sort of man Bill Cosby is. (We won’t weigh in on whether Hitler’s worse than Cosby or whether there’s a maximum amount of “awful” that a person can be, therefore making Hitler and Cosby and numerous others all on the same level)

“But if he’s sick, why would I be angry with him?”

When we call people who do monstrous things “sick,” it not only demonizes people with actual psychiatric symptoms (hallucinations, psychosis, delusions, etc), it makes an excuse for things that people consciously chose to do.

“The people who got hurt, I feel so bad for them. I want them to feel better, too.”

“But sick people do evil things; hurt people hurt people. I know I could be crucified for saying that, because I’m supposed to be on the purple team or the green team.”

Sure, if one of those teams is Team The Guy Who Drugged And Assaulted 60 Women Is Bad and the other team is Literally Just Sexual Predators.

She speaks again about how she doesn’t choose sides.

“I’m not Muslim, I’m not Christian, I’m not anything; I’m an observer who can see good things and bad things.”

We all see good and bad things. But certain bad things are enough to outweigh any amount of good.

“If you say something good about someone, people think it means that you’ve chosen a side. But I don’t choose sides. I see all sides simultaneously.”

That is right up there with Trump saying that there were good people “on both sides” in Charlottesville, when one of those sides was a group of torch-bearing Nazis changing “Jews will not replace us.”

She continues to defend her claim that she can see the alleged good in unrepentent monsters.

“People can be bad for certain things. They could be bad around children. They could be bad with power. Are those people all “bad”? Could be. Maybe they need to get kicked off the planet. I don’t know.”

If you don’t know, maybe … figure it out before you make a total ass of yourself and destroy your own credibility?

Don’t get me wrong. I totally understand what she’s going for. Hitler was reportedly nice to his dogs.

Unlike Erykah, I don’t think think that it matters, because overwhelming evil deeds trump anything else. Kind of like how a glass of water that’s 99% pure, refreshing water can be tainted by just 1% cyanide.

A lot of Erykah’s fans are wildly crushed. Even those who are only casually familiar with her career and her activism are disappointed.

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Sean Spicer Defended Hitler During Passover Because Of Course He Did

If Melissa McCarthy"s Sean Spicer impression taught us anything, it"s that Spicy is a joke of a human being.

Generally, jokes aren"t frightening or infuriating, but in Spicer"s case, the eventual punchline might come in the form of a rant about how bad it is to bully the president, delivered as nuclear fallout from a North Korean missile mutates his tiny mouth into a face anus.

Sean Spicer is bad, is what we"re saying.

But is he "use a factually inaccurate to let Hitler off the hook in the midst of a holiday meant to commemorate the Jewish people"s long history of persecution" bad?

Before today we wouldn"t have thought it was possible, but apparently the answer to that question is a mind-blowing yes.

As you"ve likely heard, the U.S. fired 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian air base last week in response to reports that Bashar al-Assad had ordered a nerve gas attack against his own people.

Spicer apparently thinks Assad is the first dictator ever to use chemical weapons to commit atrocities against civilians, because he had this to say during his daily press briefing:

“We didn’t use chemical weapons in World War II. You had someone as despicable as Hitler, who didn’t sink to using chemical weapons.”

Not surprisingly, baffled reporters immediately asked for clarification, and Spicer"s follow-up only made thing much, much worse:

“[Hitler] was not using the gas on his own people the same way that Assad is doing," Spicer said, adding that the situation in Europe in the the 1930s and "40s was different, because Nazis brought their victims to “Holocaust centers” before brutally murdering them.

He also repeatedly mispronounced Assad"s name, but that bit of gross incompetence reeeeeally pales in comparison here.

For obvious reasons, social media has pounced on Spicer"s comments, with some calling for his immediate firing:

".@POTUS @realDonaldTrump MUST FIRE SEAN SPICER NOW FOR ENGAGING IN HOLOCAUST DENIAL. OUR STATEMENT BELOW," the Anne Frank Center tweeted moments ago.

Now, as one of the most high-profile representatives of the Trump administration, it might be wise for Spicer to simply step down to save his boss a world of headaches.

But that would be a smart decision – and as we learned again today, Spicy doesn"t do smart decisions.

Watch the most jaw-dropping moments of today"s briefing in the clip below:

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The Bachelorette Preview: Daniel Compares Chad to Hitler, Trump

While The Bachelorette is not billed as a comedy, the clip below is one of the funniest things we"ve seen on reality TV in some time.

Maybe it"s the Scooby Doo background music, or the image of Chad chomping on an unpeeled sweet potato like a wiener, or maybe even remembering the image of weird Daniel flexing for the camera in the season premiere.

But it"s most likely the casually clueless way Daniel compares Chad to Adolph Hitler during their man-to-man conversation.

In the clip, Daniel has a little sit-down with fellow JoJo Fletcher suitor Chad, who is clearly this season"s antagonist.

In fact, some have called him the show"s worst villain ever.

During last week"s episode, Chad told JoJo she was "naggy" and basically called the other guys p**sies for kissing up to her.

The macho, almost cartoon-like he-bro later puffed out his chest and got into it with Alex, who confronted the real estate agent.

In essence, Chad pissed off everyone except for Daniel, who for unknown reasons remains his friend.

But now Daniel is worried that if he continues to hang with Chad, he"ll be deemed evil by association.

The two dudes hang on the couch and Daniel tells him the other guys in the house think he"s a loose cannon, especially after he punched a door, which Chad thinks is, like, NBD.

So Daniel tries another approach.

"Let"s pretend you"re Hitler. If I"m friends with you…" Daniel begins.

"Let"s not pretend I"m Hitler," Chad shoots back.

"Okay, well, let"s say you"re Donald Trump or something like that," Daniel continues. "I mean, if I hang out with you, it"s gonna make me look bad, too, right?"

"So let"s be not so much like Hitler, maybe be more like Mussolini, you know? Or Bush, right?" he suggests. "Just maybe take it down a notch, right?"

We are loving the aspirational vibe of this convo: Don"t be like Hitler, be like Mussolini, bruh! Mussolini wasn"t so bad!

The show is making one thing painfully obvious: they"re keeping Chad around for bringing the drama while Daniel provides the comic relief.

Any guesses on how long each of them stays on? Check out The Bachelorette spoilers to find out.

The Bachelorette Preview: Daniel Compares Chad to Hitler, Trump

While The Bachelorette is not billed as a comedy, the clip below is one of the funniest things we"ve seen on reality TV in some time.

Maybe it"s the Scooby Doo background music, or the image of Chad chomping on an unpeeled sweet potato like a wiener, or maybe even remembering the image of weird Daniel flexing for the camera in the season premiere.

But it"s most likely the casually clueless way Daniel compares Chad to Adolph Hitler during their man-to-man conversation.

In the clip, Daniel has a little sit-down with fellow JoJo Fletcher suitor Chad, who is clearly this season"s antagonist.

In fact, some have called him the show"s worst villain ever.

During last week"s episode, Chad told JoJo she was "naggy" and basically called the other guys p**sies for kissing up to her.

The macho, almost cartoon-like he-bro later puffed out his chest and got into it with Alex, who confronted the real estate agent.

In essence, Chad pissed off everyone except for Daniel, who for unknown reasons remains his friend.

But now Daniel is worried that if he continues to hang with Chad, he"ll be deemed evil by association.

The two dudes hang on the couch and Daniel tells him the other guys in the house think he"s a loose cannon, especially after he punched a door, which Chad thinks is, like, NBD.

So Daniel tries another approach.

"Let"s pretend you"re Hitler. If I"m friends with you…" Daniel begins.

"Let"s not pretend I"m Hitler," Chad shoots back.

"Okay, well, let"s say you"re Donald Trump or something like that," Daniel continues. "I mean, if I hang out with you, it"s gonna make me look bad, too, right?"

"So let"s be not so much like Hitler, maybe be more like Mussolini, you know? Or Bush, right?" he suggests. "Just maybe take it down a notch, right?"

We are loving the aspirational vibe of this convo: Don"t be like Hitler, be like Mussolini, bruh! Mussolini wasn"t so bad!

The show is making one thing painfully obvious: they"re keeping Chad around for bringing the drama while Daniel provides the comic relief.

Any guesses on how long each of them stays on? Check out The Bachelorette spoilers to find out.

Sarah Silverman Poses as Hitler to Discuss Trump Comparisons: WATCH!

Now that the primary elections are well underway and Trump is actually still in the lead, people are getting scared.

So scared, in fact, that they"re comparing him to the scariest of the scary monsters in all of history: Adolf Hitler.

Everyone from Louis CK to Bill Maher to Glenn Beck has likened the GOP front runner to the World War 2 dictator, with the former only half-joking when he said, "Hitler was just some hilarious and refreshing dude with a weird comb over who would say anything at all."

In light of the recent controversy, Conan O"Brien invited Hitler himself – okay, it"s really Sarah Silverman playing Hitler – on his show to address the comparisons.

She hilariously comes out clad in full Nazi regalia and naturally greets the audience with the infamous Hitler salute.

Conan goes straight in and asks what he thinks about the unfavorable comparisons to Trump.

"Don"t get me wrong, Conan, I agree with a lot he says, a lot," Silverman"s Hitler says. "Like, 90 percent of what he says, I"m like, this guy gets it!"

"But it"s just – I don"t like the way he says it, it"s just, it"s crass."

She then brings up the other most talked-about issue of the recent Republican debates – Trump"s penis size.

"What kind of person talks about his penis size on national television?" she says. "Oh, yeah, I"m so sure Donald Trump has a big penis. I famously have a micropenis – that"s what makes a tyrant!"

Silverman, who is famous for her comic persona as a Jewish-American princess, actually portrays Hitler as a lovable little asshole compared to Trump, and it"s freaking hysterical.

(We"re sure Kanye West is secretly seething behind his wife"s back about the impersonation.)

As for the rest of you, watch and enjoy!

Jimmy Kimmel Convinces Woman That Hitler is Alive (and Texting!)

While it remains very hard to believe that Donald Trump has said some of the things that Donald Trump has said, this much also remains hard to believe:

Some people out there still love Donald Trump.

In the following edition of Lie Witness News – a tradition on Jimmy Kimmel Live in which a correspondent for the show sees just how gullible certain pedestrians can be – Los Angeles residents and tourists are asked about Donald Trump.

Can they believe he walked around in a diaper in order to mock Democrats?

No, they cannot, although they claim to have seen this take place.

Can they believe he said that guns don"t kill people, Marco Rubio’s cousins kills people?

Nope, they were in shock over this statement as well.

What about the fact that Adolf Hitler texted Trump and started an online war with the Republican nominee for President?

One woman heard about this on "the news and/or the Internet" and was taken aback that Hitler would respond to Trump"s antics in such a manner.

It"s a good thing, she reasoned, that Trump is therefore "disqualified from President" due to this feud with Hitler.

We mean, you can"t just engage in a back-and-forth with the German dictator and expect to still be elected, can you?

We don"t even know where to start with this video, except to wonder: Perhaps not all citizens should be allowed to vote?

Yes, Jeb Bush Would Kill Baby Hitler

Your move, Donald Trump.

In an interview with The Huffington Post, Trump"s favorite political punching bag, fellow Republican Presidential nominee Jeb Bush, admitted that he would play the role of murderer in a very specific, extremely hypothetical situation.

Yes, the brother of George W. Bush would kill Adolf Hitler before the former German dictator ever came into power.

The New York Times Magazine originally posed this unusual, historical question to its readers in late October, receiving some fairly even results in the end.

At the time 42 percent said yes, 30 said no and 28 said they weren’t sure what they were do in this circumstance.

But Bush – who has struggled to connects with votes; who has had trouble looking like he even cares about the election; and who is more awkward on stage than Kim Kardashian is wearing clothes – says in this video that he doesn"t really see any other choice in the matter.

“Hell yeah, I would!” the former Florida governor says. “You gotta step up, man.”

Granted, Bush acknowledges how history can be changed via a single action (forgetting the name of the "Michael Fox" movie franchise that proved this conundrum)… but, come on.

“It could have a dangerous effect on everything else, but I’d do it – I mean, Hitler,” Bush said, citing the name of world"s most mass murderer as all the explanation he needs.

To some, it may seem like an easy question.

Who would NOT kill Hitler before he could wipe out millions of Jewish people?

But then there likely would not be World War II. And who knows how history would be affected by removing such a significant historical event?

Do you agree with Jeb Bush? Given the opportunity, would you end baby Hitler"s life, no matter how adorable the future dictator may have been as a child?

Tila Tequila Posts Photo of Infant Daughter Wearing Hitler Mustache

Tila Tequila has a long history of saying and doing truly regrettable things on social media.

For some reason, these things often center around her bizarre fondness Adolf Hitler, aka History’s Greatest Monster.

Sadly, that photo is exactly what it appears to be: a close-up of Tila’s daughter, Isabella, sporting a tiny Hitler ‘stache.

Tila posted a photo explaining the image, and, as you might expect, only made things worse:

“Gasps!!! Isabella!!!!! What in the holy??? One day when you grow up, you’re going to have to apologize for this picture, young lady!!! It will come back to haunt you! This way you’ll know all the struggles your Mama has been through, but I remained strong!

“Just for you my #Princess!! I’m only posting this because #BabyHitler was trending on Twitter today! Lmao! Don’t worry! I shall punish her for being a silly child who meant no harm to anyone! She gon learn today!!!”

We’ll do our best to act as translators and try to explain what in the actual f-ck this psycho-mom was trying to say with this post.

As you may recall, Tila posted photos of herself in Nazi regalia a few years back. To make matters worse, the pics were accompanied by lengthy captions describing Tila’s affection for the man responsible for the torture and murder of 6 million Jews.

Not surprisingly, her career (such as it was) never quite recovered, and Tila was kicked off of the UK’s Celebrity Big Brother over the summer after producers caught wind of her batsh-t Hitler obsession.

Now, Tila – in her own moronic way – is trying to make a point about how she’s been unfairly persecuted for her comments and the ways in which she “remained strong” in the face of her own overwhelming idiocy.

After all, being a parent is all about forcing your own dumb mistakes onto your kids so that they might suffer as you suffered. Oh, and Hitler. Don’t forget about the Hitler.