The Trump News Network, aka Fox News, refused to sell 30 seconds of air- time for the Academy Award nominated documentary, “Night at the
Garden.” The ad is called “It Can Happen Here.” Read the story here and here.
The 7 minute film consists of archival footage showing a pro-Nazi rally held in Madison Square Garden on February 20, 1939. Hitler had just completed construction of his 6th concentration camp. In only seven months Germany would invade Poland, triggering the bloodiest war in recorded history.
During that East coast winter evening 79 years ago, 20,000 Nazi-supporting Americans packed the New York City arena, raised their right arms in the Nazi salute, and applauded wildly to virulent, anti-Semitic speeches.
We can even see a mob of Nazi brown-shirts beat a protester who climbs onto the stage, until he is finally saved by New York police on the scene.
You can watch the entire film at the producers’ website here, or on YouTube here.
Yes, IT CAN happen here, folks.
Is it unfair of me to suspect that this is why Fox News refused advertisement time for this documentary; the
very network that daily encourages Trump to take more and more extreme measures in his racist policies against people of color?
I don’t think so.
