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Randy Weber ‘Now’ Realizes Hitler Comparison Wasn’t Cool

By Jason Dick
Posted January 13, 2015 at 3:41pm

“I now realize that the use of Hitler invokes pain and emotional trauma for those affected by the atrocities of the Holocaust and victims of anti-Semitism and hate.”  

— Rep. Randy Weber, R-Texas, walking back from his Monday tweet: “Even Adolph [sic] Hitler thought it more important than Obama to get to Paris. (For all the wrong reasons.) Obama couldn’t do it for right reasons.”  


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