Letters to the Editor
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Not to divert the thread into a meta discussion of the definition of fascism
But some readers may want to know that Dave Neiwert has documented this as well, and in great detail, specifically in - The RW Transmission Belt, part VII of his series:
Rush, Newspeak and Fascism
Friday, August 15, 2003
[Parts I, II, III, IV, V and VI. See my explanatory note.]
VII: The Transmission Belt
"Hitler was more moral than Clinton," intoned the nice-looking, dark-haired man in the three-piece suit. "He had fewer girlfriends."
The audience laughed and applauded, loudly.
A remark like that might hardly have raised an eyebrow in post-Monica America, particularly in the meeting-halls of mainstream conservatism, where it often seemed, by the end of Bill Clinton's tenure in the White House, that no hyperbole is too overblown in the campaign to depose him -- mostly, it seems, by convincing the rest of us that he was too grossly immoral to continue to hold the presidency...
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2003_08_10_dneiwert_archive.html#106100591663369732
That is a long series Neiwert did 5 years ago: Rush, Newspeak and Fascism.
A full HTML version is here:
http://www.cursor.org/stories/fascismintroduction.php
The right has been doing this since before WWII on the radio. They are quite good at it, and now they have the internets.
First part on his blog, for those interested, is here:
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2003/08/rush-newspeak-and-fascism_08.html