Godwin watch, part 3

And the beat goes on...

Ha'aretz- Tory MP: Lebanon raid = Warsaw ghetto

Or, you know, any air raid on any city, ever. Nazis on London, Americans in Vietnam, you know, essentially everybody since WW2. But yeah, it's totally JUST like Warsaw! Especially the part where the Israelis drop leaflets telling people to get out. You know, because that's totally how ghettos work. Schmuck.

Online Journal- The Nazis used collective punishment, too

Yeah, they also had uniforms and boots. Hey, you know who was also like the Nazis? Ulysses S. Grant. And Napoleon.

Jpost- Cartoonist likens Olmert to Nazi

Look folks, you can totally criticize Olmert and his policies all you want, but Amon fucking Goeth? What the fuckity fuck? If you're going to invoke Godwin, you might at least pick a slightly more defensible comparison, like Olmert to, say, a random no-name Nazi, not some dude who spent the war sniping off slave laborers? Even if you absolutely hate Olmert, no one with half a brain can seriously claim he's done something like that.

And it's not just Israel being compared to Hitler. The evangelicals, Israel's best friends everTM (cue coughing attack), are trying to "help" again. How, you might ask? By whipping out Godwin. Catholic Reporter- Evangelicals rally for Israel, warn of Iran threat

One speaker after another kept the focus on Islamo-fascism and Iran in particular. Republican Party chairman Ken Mehlman noted that no country is more feared by its Arab neighbors than Iran and called Iran the center of global jihadism. Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum said, “It is time for the United States to stand with Israel and to go to the heart of the problem, which is Iran.” Multiple speakers compared Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Hitler. Texas pastor and televangelist John Hagee, who founded Christians United for Israel, said, “The ghost of Hitler is walking across Europe and the Middle East.”

Hagee called the president of Iran “a new Hitler,” who “intends to develop nuclear weapons to attack Israel and the United States.”

“It’s almost like we’re in 1938 again. I always wondered what I’d do,” said Greg Stephens, a delegate and San Diego pastor.

Hey, John-boy: if you're really worried about Mahmoud, there are a lot of other more practical things you can do besides invoking the Holocaust. You know, seeing as how the US and USSR were far more nuke-happy than Hitler ever was. Oh, and the fact that, as douchy as Ahmadinejad is, at best he's pre-Mein Kampf Hitler, if that. Ok, fine, maybe post-Munich putsch, presently imprisoned, going nuts from syphillis and in the process of writing Mein Kampf. But that's it. And Greg? I'm sorry to interrupt your role-playing game, but get a grip.

Lastly, I'd like to reiterate that invoking Godwin needlessly simply isn't cool or acceptable, regardless of who does it. Jews especially should think twice before pulling out the Hitler/Nazi stuff to win minor personal/political points.

So, Keith Olbermann- quit it, asshole.

At a meeting of the prestigious Television Critics' Association in California, Olbermann, who works for the MSNBC network, donned an O'Reilly mask and gave a Nazi salute, provoking a furious response from Fox's chairman, Roger Ailes.

This made all the more annoying after him getting so snippy when other folks did it.