Newsweek contributor compares Ann Romney to Hitler, Stalin on Mother's Day

Joe Newby

 On Sunday morning, Newsweek/Daily Beast senior contributor Michelle Goldberg compared Ann Romney to Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin while appearing on MSNBC's Up with Chris Hayes Sunday morning.

Goldberg had an issue with Ann Romney's Mother's Day op-ed, in which the wife of the presumptive GOP Presidential nominee referred to the "crown of motherhood."

"You know, yes, motherhood is beautiful," Goldberg said before comparing Mrs. Romney to the twentieth century dictators.

"I found that phrase 'the crown of motherhood' really kind of creepy, not just because of its, like, somewhat you know, I mean, it’s kind of usually really authoritarian societies that give out like The Cross of Motherhood, that give awards for big families. You know, Stalin did it, Hitler did it."

She went on to call it an “insipid, condescending praise.”

Mediaite's Tommy Christopher thought Goldberg had a point, but said the attack was misplaced:

Even if you found Ann Romney’s politicized glee at the faux outrage that the Rosen flap incited, even if you think she’s “insufferable,” hell, even if she isinsufferable, you’ll always lose by saying it out loud. That’s because, legitimately, she has a right to be all of those things, and worse (or better), because she’s not running for office. Better to focus on the guy who is.

It is true that the Nazi regime did hand out medals for motherhood, and the Soviet Union issued several medals including the Order of Mother Heroine, which was awarded to mothers who gave birth to ten or more children.

But it is a bit of a stretch to suggest that is what Ann Romney was referring to in her Thursday op-ed.

"Cherish your mothers," she wrote. "The ones who wiped your tears, who were at every ball game or ballet recital. The ones who believed in you, even when nobody else did, even when maybe you didn't believe in yourself.

"Women wear many hats in their lives. Daughter, sister, student, breadwinner. But no matter where we are or what we're doing, one hat that moms never take off is the crown of motherhood.

"There is no crown more glorious," she added.

This, to Goldberg, is "creepy," and reminiscent of Hitler and Stalin.

"And this is the kind of person that in 2012 not only gets print space at Newsweek/Daily Beast, but also air time on MSNBC," wrote Newsbusters' Noel Sheppard, who asked: "Sickening, isn't it?"

Recently, Newsweek - the magazine that once dubbed Barack Obama "god of all things" - revealed a new cover to coincide with a piece calling Obama America's "first gay President."

Predictably, that covers portrays Obama as a sort of progressive "holy man," complete with a rainbow-colored halo.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Democrat-media complex, and this is the kind of coverage Americans will be forced to suffer through until the election.

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