{"id":4211,"date":"2005-05-16T11:28:26","date_gmt":"2005-05-16T15:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4211.html"},"modified":"2005-05-16T11:28:26","modified_gmt":"2005-05-16T15:28:26","slug":"novak-compares-dem-filibusters-to-nazi-concentration-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/novak-compares-dem-filibusters-to-nazi-concentration-camps\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak compares Dem filibusters to Nazi concentration camps"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is it with right-wingers and the Nazi comparisons these days? Grover Norquist believes<\/a> the Estate Tax is the moral equivalent of the Nazi Holocaust, Wal-Mart is using<\/a> Nazis in the company’s print advertising, and now Bob Novak is comparing Dem tactics on judicial nominees to Nazi concentration camps.<\/p>\n

This was the exchange on this weekend’s “Capital Gang<\/a>” on CNN, between Al Hunt and Novak:<\/p>\n

Hunt: “Bob, why would Senator Frist refuse an offer to break the deadlock?”<\/p>\n

Novak: “Because the whole system is that you’re not going to have — like going to a concentration camp and picking out which people go to the death chamber. You’re not going to let the Democrats do that, say, ‘We’re going to — we’re going to confirm this person, we’re not going to confirm the other person.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(As usual, the invaluable Crooks & Liars has the video<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Up until recently, most civilized people reserved Nazi comparisons for the truly evil. The left, in particular, came under fire for linking Republicans to Nazis a little too often. The new trend seems to be the opposite — the right isn’t the victim of a malicious and unjustified comparison; the right is now the origin<\/em> of these painfully stupid comparisons.<\/p>\n

Can everyone agree to drop these references from their rhetorical quivers? And is it too much to ask that Novak apologize for his contemptible slur?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is it with right-wingers and the Nazi comparisons these days? Grover Norquist believes the Estate Tax is the moral equivalent of the Nazi Holocaust, Wal-Mart is using Nazis in the company’s print advertising, and now Bob Novak is comparing Dem tactics on judicial nominees to Nazi concentration camps. This was the exchange on this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}