On her Current TV show Say Anything on Tuesday night, Joy Behar brought on two political consultants to discuss the Pope’s resignation. Behar insisted that the Roman Catholic church made a terrible, mystifying mistake by selecting a pope who “was in the Hitler Youth.” Democratic strategist Robert Zimmerman implied that the membership wasn’t entirely voluntary,… Read more »
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Hackers Find Paintings by George W. Bush? HuffPost Throws In Hitler Comparisons
Hackers dug into the Bush family's private e-mails and sent out images of paintings by former president George W. Bush. As if that wasn't offensive enough, The Huffington Post went looking for the most dastardly comparisons: "Jack Fischer, who has an eponymous gallery in San Francisco, compared the interest in the Bush paintings to Adolf… Read more »
Adolf Hitler: “The Most Foolish Mistake We Could Make Would Be to Allow the Subject Races to Possess Arms”
Adolf Hitler, dinner talk on April 11, 1942: “The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as… Read more »
The Anti-Defamation League Would Like You To Stop Comparing Gun Control To Hitler
It wouldn’t be a proper political debate without Godwin’s Law, and the national gun debate has certainly had its share of over-the-top Nazi analogies. The Anti-Defamation League is unhappy about the noticeably frequent invocations of Hitler in the gun debate, and came out with a press release asking that people maybe tone down the rhetoric… Read more »