Entries from LAist tagged with 'hitler'
May 15, 2008
The tag is so offensive that LA CityBeat readers are gasping for breath today, wondering how it even made it past the publisher to the printer, much less the streets. In this week's "Travel Issue"-- in a piece titled, "Oh, the Places You'll Go!" the subhead reads: "Did you know that Hitler managed to give every German man, woman and child a yearly vacation at either the mountains or the sea?" But those following the......
Continue Reading "CityBeat Hits New Low with 'Hitler' Reference"July 27, 2007
Who woulda thunk? In the latest episode of BBC Radio 4's Document, host Mike Thomson investigates a purported coup orchestrated by Prescott Bush and several influential American families that sought (but obviously failed) to overthrow FDR and institute a fascist dictatorship in the U.S. of A a la Hitler and Mussolini: "Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by a group of right-wing American businessmen . The coup was......
Continue Reading "Did Grandpappy Bush Help Plan a Coup?"October 9, 2006
It was just announced that Google has bought YouTube. There are several things that make us nervous about this. The first being copyrights. Somehow YouTube has been able to let its users post virtually anything onto the site other than NBC's SNL's clips that the peacock deemed too good to just give away. But if you are searching for classic music videos, or international parodies (pictured), then all you have to do is type......
Continue Reading "Google Buys YouTube, Will YouTube Start to Suck?"