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Braun: Media got Hitler joke wrong By: Jennifer Epstein

Plenty of politicians’ jokes fall flat, but when the joke involves Adolf Hitler and the candidate at the butt of it is Jewish, it probably wasn’t a good idea to begin with. Former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun (D-Ill.) learned that the hard way on Sunday, when she said that one of her opponents in the Chicago mayoral race, former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, might be best described by a line from Mel Brooks’s “The Producers.” “I was not comparing him to Adolf Hitler — print that,” Braun said in a Monday interview with Chicago’s Fox affiliate. “I was trying to say … the kind, gentle concern for the public that is being portrayed in these ads does not square with the record.” While campaigning Sunday with Princeton University professor Cornel West, Braun’s attempt at humor didn’t gain traction. “The joke in it, was this guy who was still in love with the Fuhrer, with Adolf Hitler,” Braun said, describing part of the storyline. “And he said, ‘The Fuhrer, he was a kind man, he was a gentle man.’” That joke, she said, could be extended to Emanuel. But no one laughed. “You don’t get the joke,’’ she said. “OK. We get the kind man, the gentle man on television and not the person who voted against $5 million for food aid to Africa.’’ After the event where Braun made her comments, she jabbed at reporters who she said had turned against her but not Emanuel. “That’s the problem with making jokes around you all,” she said. “I was not comparing him to Adolf Hitler.” On Monday, Braun said that reporters are ignoring her opponent’s history of abrasiveness. “You’ve got a candidate that sent somebody a dead fish,” she said. “Talk about that. You’ve got a candidate who stabbed a steak saying people were dead. Talk about that. You’ve got a candidate who has consistently insulted, talked about tampons, talk about that.”