Is that enough of a title for you? It's our new mission statement here at Make me a Commentator!!! All day long you can look for us not to compare President Bush to Hitler. We refuse to do it.
Jonah Goldberg's latest piece over at townhall inspired us in this course of non-Hitler Comparing. In his article today he suggests (correctly) that comparing President Bush to Hitler is a form of holocaust denying. Suggesting that George Bush's horrible mishandling of the economy or his reckless sending of troops into Iraq are the equivalent of Hitler's crimes trivilializes the Holocaust.
Unfortunately Goldberg's larger point about how wrong liberals are to do this falls on to points. First, he can't find much from mainstream liberals (one article in Vanity Fair and an article from the New York Review of Books (which, incidently, seems to be criticizing the trend, although in the harsh language Goldberg would prefer) and has to rely on websites, bulletin boards, and protestors.
Secondly, his use of the most extreme internet sites trivializes the skeletons on Conservatisms closet. Fringe Conservatives have made the wildest accusations against Clinton. But nobody is pretending there is some sort of equivalence between Robert Novak and, say, the author of that famous list of people Clinton is supposed to have rubbed out (for more details, check it out!). And, perhaps, Mr. Goldberg isn't trying to insinuate some equivalence between ihatebush.com and Howard Dean; but if not, his article could have been written a bit more clearly.
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