Yes, this is real. Tony Zirkle, an Indianapolis lawyer running for Congress as a Republican, spoke at a neo-Nazi event commemorating Hitler's birthday, appearing in front of a portrait of Hitler and alongside former German SS Officer Theo Junker and Bill White, Commander of the American National Socialist Workers Party. At the event, Zirkle, whose campaign website is bizarrely fixated on porn, said Jewish pornographers and book store owners are responsible for the sexual exploitation of "white people." The sexually transmitted infection HPV is "a genocide directed at the white race," he said. Audience members at the event wore swastika arm bands.
When the local newspaper confronted Zirkle, he likened speaking at the Hitler birthday party to speaking on mainstream African American radio. "I'll speak before any group that invites me," he said Monday. "I've spoken on an African-American radio station in Atlanta." This isn't the first time Zirkle has deeply offended. Earlier this year, he suggested that white and black people should live in separate states.
This is Zirkle's second primary campaign for Congress. In 2006, he won 30 percent of the vote. Here's the video of this travesty:
