Outspoken musician Ted Nugent compared Jewish film director Harvey Weinstein to a Nazi propagandist following his announcement of producing an anti-gun film, the Huffington Post reported.
Nugent made the controversial comparison on Thursday during an interview with the National Rifle Assocation's talk news show, "Cam & Company," one day after Weinstein discussed his movie plans on the Howard Stern show.
He said viewers who watch Weinstein's upcoming movie "will see that Joseph Goebbels and Saul Alinsky is alive in the form a fat punk named Harvey Weinstein, and as he tries to destroy the NRA it will backfire on him."
Goebbels was the Reich Minister of Propoganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 and Alinsky was a writer and considered the first "community organizer" who dedicated his work to empowering "have-nots."
"I don't know if Harvey Weinstein has had a lifetime of drug and substance abuse, but he certainly sounds like it," Nugent added. "You have to be brain-dead to believe that the gun-free zones of Chicago and Nuremburg in 1938 are a desirable condition."
On Wednesday, Weinstein was discussing his film plans with Howard Stern about an uprising in the Warsaw ghetto and mentioned that just because Jews rightfully used them to fight against Nazis does not mean they should be everywhere in the U.S. today.
"Do you own a gun?" Stern asked Weinstein, to which he replied "No...I have never wanted to own a gun."
"But if the story resonates that much with you," Stern continued, "why not own a gun so that--"
"No, this is when you're marching a half a million people into Auschwitz. I mean, I'd find a gun if that was happening to my people. I don't think we need guns in this country," Weinstein answered.
"And I hate it, and I think the NRA is a disaster area, and I'm going to actually make a movie -- I shouldn't say this, but I'll tell it to you, Howard -- I'm going to make a movie with Meryl Streep and we're going to take this issue head on, and they're going to wish they weren't alive after I'm done with them."
Weinstein added that he believes gun stocks will "crash and burn" after his film is released.
