Republican Leader Calls Orthodox Jewish Pol "Anti-Christ," Compares Him To Hitler

NY State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver an "anti-Christ" like Hitler, Republican pol says.

Erie County Executive Collins regrets comparing Sheldon Silver to Hitler, anti-Christ
Elizabeth Benjamin • New York Daily News

An upstate Republican who's eying a run for governor has compared Shelly Silver, the Orthodox Jewish speaker of the state Assembly, with Adolf Hitler and the anti-Christ.

And now Erie County Executive Chris Collins says he's really, really sorry.

The slur came during a speech Saturday night to fellow Republicans in Buffalo, while slamming Albany's notorious "three men in a room" budget process - in which the governor and legislative leaders make deals in private.

Collins referenced famed French seer Nostradamus' prediction that there would be three anti-Christs before the Apocalypse.

He said it's generally accepted the first was Napoleon and the second Hitler.

He said he was "pretty sure" the third is Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, two attendees at the Erie County GOP's annual fall fund-raiser at the Adam's Mark Hotel said.

"No one clapped. No one cheered. No one laughed," said a Western New York Republican who was at the event. "I know I didn't. I thought it was a little harsh to be calling someone an anti-Christ."

Through his spokesman, Collins said he had made a "poor joke" and extended his "sincerest apologies" to Silver.

"While we may disagree strongly on policy matters, my statement had no place in our political discourse and I am truly sorry to both the speaker and to anyone else who I may have offended," Collins said.

A Silver spokesman declined to comment.

An Erie County Democrat was not surprised by Collins' remarks, saying: "The statewide media can expect to see a lot more of these types of foot-in-mouth moments . . . . He's an extremist who doesn't think before he speaks."

Collins was elected county exec in 2007. He has been raising money for a possible 2010 gubernatorial bid, but says he won't run if Rudy Giuliani does.

Collins is allied with new state Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox, who has said he'd rather see Giuliani challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand instead of running for governor.…

Photos: Top, Sheldon Silver (NY Daily News); Bottom, Chris Collins (AP).

Comments

[Office of the Chief Rabbi]

I often marvel how just how stupid some people can be. Last week it was those 2 shmegeggies from South Carolina, now this guy. Is it because they're Republicans? Goyim? Politicians? New York Republican Goyishe politicians? Oh, must be, because I remember how St. Alphonse the Vindicated lost his Senate seat.

[SJ]

3 antichrists is a Nostradamus thing which sadly is pimped by the History Channel. Collins is likely just a conspiracy nut to one extent or another.

Nostradamus became a renowned prophet the way all prophets in history became renowned, which is to keep "prophecies" nice and vague so they can refer to anything.

[yudel]

so who was hissler then? and do not tell me a river

[SJ]

Firstly it was Hister.

Secondly, I would refer you to http://www.skepdic.com/nostrada.html

[critical_minyan]

shelly silver is my type of politician. every time he runs all the newspapers endorse the other politicians, yet he wins by huge margins because he is honest and takes care of his constituents.

[Nachum]

I'm Jewish and I feel the same way about him. So?

[reuven sabel]

sheldon silver is not a nazi just because he is a zionist. to be called a nazi by me is a title a zionist has to go out of his way to earn by acting like a nazi. not all zionists are nazis. in fact most zionists are not nazis. a zionist is only called a nazi by me if he does something real bad like persecute religious jews.
i have been debating in by mind whether or not to call netanyahu a nazi and my conclusion is

[reuven sabel]

netanyahu can be better compared to pharoah than to hitler, ymach shmo vzichro.

[reuven sabel]

PLEASE see my 7:54am comment on the haredi street thug story where i explain about G-d hardening the heart of pharoah and then you will understand why i compare netanyahu to pharoah. netanyahu was supported in his bid to become prime minister by almost all of the religious zionists and most of the haredi anti-zionists and he still supports the evil anti-religious nazi gestapo jerusalem pigs department's police brutality against religious jews.
WE SHALL OVERCOME
BURN BABY BURN

[reuven sabel]

please see my 5:05am comment, the last comment on the first page of comments on the haredi street thug story, not the 7:54am comment.

[Mr. Apikorus]

I never much cared for Sheldon Silver. Always thought he was a crooked politician, and the epitome of what was wrong with New York State government.

Now that somebody has compared Shelly Silver to Hitler, I'll have to rethink my position. Shelly may not be such a bad guy after all.

[Uzi M]

Wait a minute, I don't get it. I thought Obama was the Anti-Christ.

[alternative childcare]

Mr A: Achtung! Vergessen Sie nicht, wir beobachten Sie...

[Mr. Apikorus]

Yeah, Howdy, I'm sure you are. I know that for a fact.

When are you gonna send the Mossad to "rendition" me?

[alternative childcare]

They need to prepare the yeshiva wing for you so that you can get the Jewish education you've been wanting all these years :)