The reductio ad Hitlerum
Jeff Jacoby:
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"...Why meet a conservative with facts or logic when you can simply tar him with the Nazi brush? Thus we had Nancy Giles on the 'CBS Sunday Morning show' sourly tying Rush Limbaugh's 'edgy' radio manner to you-know-who's. 'Hitler would have killed in talk radio,' Giles declared. 'He was edgy, too.' Ellen Gray of the Philadelphia Daily News struck a similar note in commenting on 'The Reagans,' the cancelled miniseries. 'If Hitler had more friends,' she told The Washington Post, 'CBS wouldn't have aired [its Hitler mini-series] either.'
"But of course no one came in for more Hitler comparisons this year than George W. Bush. Third Reich references were practically a staple of antiwar rhetoric.
"The president 'is not the orator that Hitler was,' acknowledged leftist commentator Dave Lindorff at Counterpunch.org. 'But comparisons of the Bush administration's fearmongering tactics to those practiced so successfully and with such terrible results by Hitler and Goebbels . . . are not at all out of line.'
"Such repugnant comparisons are in fact *wildly* out of line. But so long as the double standard persists, liberals will continue to make them with impunity."
Jeff Jacoby:
...
"...Why meet a conservative with facts or logic when you can simply tar him with the Nazi brush? Thus we had Nancy Giles on the 'CBS Sunday Morning show' sourly tying Rush Limbaugh's 'edgy' radio manner to you-know-who's. 'Hitler would have killed in talk radio,' Giles declared. 'He was edgy, too.' Ellen Gray of the Philadelphia Daily News struck a similar note in commenting on 'The Reagans,' the cancelled miniseries. 'If Hitler had more friends,' she told The Washington Post, 'CBS wouldn't have aired [its Hitler mini-series] either.'
"But of course no one came in for more Hitler comparisons this year than George W. Bush. Third Reich references were practically a staple of antiwar rhetoric.
"The president 'is not the orator that Hitler was,' acknowledged leftist commentator Dave Lindorff at Counterpunch.org. 'But comparisons of the Bush administration's fearmongering tactics to those practiced so successfully and with such terrible results by Hitler and Goebbels . . . are not at all out of line.'
"Such repugnant comparisons are in fact *wildly* out of line. But so long as the double standard persists, liberals will continue to make them with impunity."
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