LaRouche's "Mustache" Message Is Getting Through

September 28, 2009 (LPAC)—None other than President Obama himself has called attention to the LPAC Mustache poster, setting off a new, broad wave of media coverage, and highlighting the critical importance of rubbing in the message that poster conveys.

President Obama was speaking at the Congressional Black Caucus on Saturday night Sept. 26, and once more launching into his standard pitch for "health care reform." In doing so, he digressed to mention an incident at the G20 summit. While he and Michelle were shaking hands in the receiving line, Obama said, one foreign leader pulled him aside to ask a private question. The leader, only identified by the President as a male, said:

"We don't understand it. You're trying to make sure everybody has health care and they're putting a Hitler mustache on you. That doesn't make sense to me."

Obama looked totally grim while recounting this story, although his audience seemed to treat it lightly, some laughing and many applauding.

Obama said nothing more to identify the source of that mustache as LaRouche, but many of the news blogs do, including FreedomsLighthouse.com, and NECN.com (New England Cable News), which highlights the comment on the 'Hitler mustache' in its headline and links to the Rachel Brown confrontation with Barney Frank.

Meanwhile, the Mustache poster's message about the content of the President's Health Care policy has made its way into other news reports, including an interview with Barney Frank done by the Washington Post's Ezra Klein, a Washington Post news story on Dick Armey et al.'s role in building the mass demonstrations against the health policy, and Doonesbury's Sunday cartoon. Armey and National Taxpayers Union head Grover Norquist are quoted as distancing themselves from the Hitler mustache posters. Doonesbury devotes five frames of his cartoon strip to the Nazis' atrocities, concluding with a portrayal of the White House, from which Obama is threatening to give a speech. The final panel is headlined "Understandably, current parallels are frightening.'