Strombo Lecturing Canada on "Right Wing Ideology"?

It seems nowadays like every time I turn on CBC Newsworld, I see a documentary featuring professor Strombolopolis lecturing Canada on the history of what he repeatedly refers to as "right wing ideology". You may be familiar with such buzz words as "right wing ideology" from Liberal MPs in Question Period (Goodale is the worst offender). This "documentary" has pretty much been running every weekend day since its release, as though the program directors at the 24 hour news network have confused themselves with the History Channel. 70 year old news, way to go guys!  I tune into Newsworld to consume news, not to watch some glorified DJ deliver a misguided history lesson.

I understand that it is unlikely curious George put all this material together on his own. In fact he didn't present anything that hasn't already been said on one of the other 10,000 documentaries that have already been made about World War II, boldly going where hundreds of documentaries have gone before. Fascism is a form of strong arm totalitarian government/dictatorship that emerged from the Great Depression, but you can have both right wing fascists and left wing fascists and thus it is not correct to label fascism as uniquely right wing.

What Georgie doesn't mention is that Benito Mussolini was beloved by American Liberals until his invasion of Ethiopia. He really should read the book Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg (which has over 60 pages of footnotes) before participating in such a project. Adolf Hitler's political party was called the "National Socialist German Workers Party", where the Fuhrer himself rose to power from the German labour movement. The Nazi Party platform even reads "we demand the nationalization of all associated industry. We demand a division of profits from heavy industry" (see Liberal Fascism, appendix 1). Demanding a greater share of corporate revenue and the nationalization of heavy industry does not sound like small government and low taxes to me. It sounds more like NDP policy than conservative.

"There is no word in the English language that gets thrown around more freely by people who don't know what it means than "fascism." Indeed, the more someone uses the word "fascist" in everyday conversation, the less likely it is that he knows what he's talking about."

WHICH BOOK WOULD YOU RATHER OWN?

Arguing With Idiots by Glenn Beck (21%)
Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg (18%)
Going Rogue by Sarah Palin (18%)
If Democrats had any Brains They'd be Republicans by Ann Coulter (11%)
Leadership by Rudy Giuliani (10%)
How to Talk to a Liberal by Ann Coulter (10%)
Culture of Corruption by Michelle Malkin (8%)