Letters to the Editor
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The problem with Jewish groups is that ...
most of them support the Israel Lobby which wants war with Iran at any cost.
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Addendum to Godwin's Law
If you are liberal or conservative, relating Nazis to your adversaries means you lose your argument. If you are a neo-conservative, you cover your ears and shout LA-LA-LA-LA!
Nice.
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Okay maybe not to Hitler
When I was a child, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith was an organization that stood for protecting everyone, impartially, from ethnic and racial slurs.
It's no longer called that, I noticed recently. And it's changed. Abraham Foxman is the Wayne LaPierre of the ADL. He's done to it what was done to the NRA. And the end result has been just as bad. I do hope I'm not trivializing Wayne LaPierre, Abe.
As for using "fascism" and "Hitler" on everyone and everything, it comes from the invention of the term Islamofascist, and before that from Condi Rice's comparisons of Saddam Hussein to Hitler. We're subject to the label because we are perceived as not loyal to the cause, and therefore in league with the Great Satans of the Bush Administration. Or, should we say, Great Satans du jour. It receives no condemnation because it is perceived to be part of the good war against the enemies of Israel.
As usual, nothing could be further from the truth.
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Anonymous @ 7:19, I have a good screen name for you: Ignoramus.
As a matter of fact, most Jewish groups in the United States are far more liberal than the Israeli government and its supporters. Do not confuse the Israel lobby with Jewish lobbies and organizations.
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I know you're refraining from pointing this out but....
The Nazi's were right wingers.
Therefore when people on the left use the term they're abusing it but people on the right use it they're just aw-shucks kidding.
Because when people on the left use it, they're actually describing behavior similar to that which the Nazi's engaged in ( Racism, Aggressive warfare, "Scientific" interogation, hatred of qays and other minorities).
Whereas when people on the right use it they're just engaging in harmless name-calling. Because Kossacks may resemble many things but Nazis are not on the list.
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Tammy Bruce & her ilk...
...are so uneducated & ignorant that, yes, when they call somebody a "Nazi" it's just a commonplace insult.
You think Tammy Bruce or Bill O'Reilly are duly educated on WWII? Or on anything else for that matter?
They don't know shit about American history because, to them, America history text books were "written by secular progressive liberals."
"Nazi" & "Gestapo" are terms they heard on right wing radio, or read in the Weekly Standard.
"Nazi" is to 2007 what "terrorist sympathizer" was to 2006.
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you are preaching to the choir here
have you asked anyone from ADL or Simon Wisenthal Center why they are silent?
it would be interesting to hear their response.
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Sicks and Stones
“Can one even imagine a more effective way to completely belittle and trivialize those terms than the way in which Fox News is so casually and cheaply throwing around those terms?”
Sure, Cheney’s favorite radio interviewer has been doing it for years. Rush - and other elements of the right - have been labeling women and woman’s groups “FemiNazis” for years.
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What Did You Expect?
When the Religious Right routinely holds "Support Israel" rallies, when the Republicans basically bend over and grab their ankles whenever Israel wants and even questioning America's role in seeking an even-handed and balanced Middle-East policy generates lusty cries of anti-Semitism from AIPAC, what the f*ck did anyone expect?
As long as it's in Israel's...and, by extension, their proxies'...best interests, that's the way it is: absolute hypocrisy viz-a-viz political commentary/non-commentary.
FOX, as an adjunct of the Republican Party/AIPAC, could figuratively piss on a picture of Mother Theresa, if she had asked for sympathy for the Palestinian people; she might even be branded as a "Nazi-sympathizer" for even questioning Israel's activities in the Middle-East.
When a courageous politico from EITHER party finally decides to stand up to AIPAC, he/she can be assured that it will ALSO be the day that that same politico is branded a Nazi, an anti-Semite and a tool of Hezbollah/Al-Qeda, et al. Count on it!
Screw AIPAC...no friend of the US at all.
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The comparisons are warranted
Hitler was, after all, a peace activist who fought for civil liberties and looked to curtail government power.
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About a week ago on my blog I compared the Reichstag Fire Decree to our own laws, and hey, they are pretty damn similar -- what a surprise. (Although nowhere did I claim that anyone was the "next Hitler" or "like Hitler.")
Change "communist" to "terrorist" in the intro and the decree reads like a summary of recent US laws and executive decisions.
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Hitlery
That this would eventually happen was obvious to me when Rush and his followers continually have referred to Hillary Clinton as Hitlery (whatever the spelling) and no one calls them on it. I am not a big fan of Hillary, but I have always felt that this nickname was beyond the pale and should be objected to at every use. To me, that is part of Hillary's problem, too many people think of her as Hitler-ish just because of the name attached to her. It is not funny or cute, but the right gets away with it, vilifying with no adverse effects whatsoever.
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@Glenn
By parity of much right-wing reasoning, lesbian Tammy Bruce should stick to "gay and lesbian" issues.
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Nick44 is right
And I so wish that the millions of Jewish Americans who think the Israeli government is a tragedy could find a way to take on ADL and their ilk. It borders on anti-Semitism for these right-wing, pro-Israeli groups to blur the difference between supporting a violent state like Israel and being a Jew.
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Speaking of Jonah Goldberg...
Don't forget the magnum opus he's been working on for the last who-knows-ho-many-years, the original title of which was "Liberal Fascism: From Mussolini to Hillary Clinton" (it's since been changed to something like "From the Mad Hatter to Madonna," or something equally asinine).
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@ Nick44
Do not confuse the Israel lobby with Jewish lobbies and organizations.
ya know, you could help me and maybe some others out with this. would you be able to list some prominent groups that are anti-war and/or are speaking out against this kind of thing?
From what I see, and that of course gets filtered through corporate media, does not exactly line up with what you state.
really, I am being sincere.