The Blue Voice

Saturday, June 25, 2005

Natzis Schmatzies

I don't know if y'all know who Steve Benson is, but he's a political cartoonist who lives here in the Valley of the Sun. As his work is, to put it mildly, left-leaning, I find it a wonder that the Arizona Republic, a right-leaning newspaper, continues to print is stuff on a syndicated basis. But they do.

Today's cartoon for instance had a HUGE disgusted looking elephant saying, "It's absolutely outrageous --OUTRAGEOUS, I tell you -- that Democratic Senator Dick Durbin dared compare our soldiers to Nazis!!" But on the other side of the cartoon, Benson writes: "HELLO?? Who are Republicans to complain about Nazi comparisons?" Some actual quotes:

"The Democrats' position on the filibuster is the equivalent of Adolf Hitler in 1942 saying, 'I'm in Paris. How dare you invade me? How dare you bomb my city? It's MINE!'" - Senator Rick Santorum

"Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so Liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It's the same thing. It's happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the Liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today, more terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history." - Pat Robertson on the 700 Club

"The estate tax is the morality of the holocaust...the Nazis were for gun control. The Nazis were for high marginal tax rates. Do you want to talk about who's closer politically to National Socialism...the Right or the Left?" - Senator Phil Grahm

"I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really are: FEMINAZIS." - Rush Limbaugh

It seems to me that both partys enjoy linking the opposition to Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler. I know I have from time to time. Mayhaps that should tell us something about we Americans today - as a people?

Think about it.

posted at 3:40:00 AM by Marcia Ellen

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