Ethics

Dumbass Quote of the Week

By Ed Brayton

And it comes, unsurprisingly, from a Worldnutdaily column written by Jerry Kane:

Critics who denounce and slander their colleagues for comparing Barack Obama's meteoric rise to power with that of Hitler's are out of ideas or have too much time on their hands.

Ah, of course. Calling Obama the next Hitler is just fine, but criticizing those who say that is "slander." There simply is no limit to how ridiculous these people can be. And the whole substance of Kane's argument: Hitler was charismatic. Obama is charismatic. Well yes, and they're both mammals too.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 06, 2008 (boomark / email).