MSNBC's Heilemann Compares Bernie's Campaign to "Bataan Death March"

Well, at least MSNBC analyst John Heilemann didn't go all out hyperbolic and compare Sen. Bernie Sanders' (Communist-VT) to Adolf Hitler or Mitsuo Fuchida [google him]. He merely compared Sanders' presidential campaign to the Bataan Death March--a human atrocity perpetrated by the Japanese Empire in World War Two.

"Bernie Sanders is going to fight," Heilemann said. "He's got unlimited resources effectively, he's going to fight for the next three months. Nothing is going to stop this from being a kind of Bataan Death March over the course of the next three months, with each of these candidates going at each other hammer and tongs. That is not avoidable I think."

What a schmuck. Seriously, what a schmuck. But hey, it's MSNBC--Major Schmucks Nothing But Crap. What else can one expect?

"Bataan Death March," anchor Andrea Mitchell repeated.

Heilemann--not the sharpest bayonet on a rifle--compared the Sanders campaign to the aftermath of April 9, 1942, when 12,000 Americans and 58,000 Filipino soldiers surrendered to Japanese forces at the Bataan Peninsula following a months-long battle. 

Thousands died being force-marched to a labor camp. The atrocity came to be known as the Bataan Death March. By comparing it to the Sanders campaign, Heilemann trivialized the atrocity.

Prisoners were starved and randomly shot, beaten, and stabbed [Sanders-style, Heilemann supposes] throughout the ordeal. 

After the war, Japanese lieutenant general Homma Masaharu, who commanded imperial troops in the Philippines, was convicted in a war crimes tribunal and executed in Manila. 

Unfortunately, he could only be executed once.

This trend of making comparisons to horrible atrocities, and especially Hitler comparisons, has got to stop. It's stupid and it distorts history into a political narrative that dilutes the horrors of the reality of what actually occurred.

It's no better than Holocaust denial.

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