NBC Relays View of Rumsfeld as “Neo-Nazi,” and Raises Mein Kampf --5/11/2004

The broadcast and cable network newscasts led once again Monday night with multiple stories on the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal and calls for Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld to resign as all touted how the International Committee of the Red Cross reports from last year prove the abuse was widespread, not corrected and long-known by top officials. NBC went so far as to air a claim that Rumsfeld reminds one Egyptian journalist of a “neo-Nazi character” and how an Arab businessman thinks U.S. treatment of prisoners “is not Jeffersonian democracy. It’s more like a lesson from Hitler’s book, Mein Kampf.”