aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Sunday, June 19, 2005

Don’t use the Hitler argument

Yesterday I pointed to Talk Left and called Bill Frist a liar.

Well Michael at Here’s What’s Left, who’s argued before that we shouldn’t use the Hitler argument, says “we all should have known what was going to happen” and wonders, when will we learn:

If you don’t think that we’ll be talking about Dick Durbin on Monday, you’re wrong.  If you think we’ll be talking about what actually goes on at Gitmo, you’re also wrong.  If you think that the Bush admin will lift a finger to correct the human rights abuses there, you’re deeply wrong.  And if you don’t think Dick Durbin’s out-of-context quote will raise money for the republican party, you’re absolutely out of your mind… Please please please.  Can we please never use the words Nazi, Soviet, or Hitler again?  Sure, the republicans will find some other stupid thing to feign outrage about, but let’s not give it to them, ok?