Double Standards

Powerline's Rocket Man attacks the WaPo's Richard Cohen for the absurd double standard he observes: liberal organizations, even large "respected" ones like MoveOn.org, traffic in a constant diet of Bush/Hitler comparisons to which Cohen turns a blind eye - but when Grover Norquist calls obsessive opposition to modifying the Estate Tax "Holocaust Morality" ("It's only happening to a minority, and I'm not one of them!"), Cohen condems it.

Rocket man ends with this:

Cohen cannot possibly be unaware that "Bush=Hitler" is the mantra of the contemporary left. So what are we to make of the fact that he has never criticized liberals for their intolerant rhetoric, but has gone absolutely bananas when Grover Norquist had the temerity to mention the Holocaust?

I, personally, would like to see a moratorium on all references to Hitler, the Third Reich, Nazism and the Holocaust in the context of domestic political debate. Such a rule would have no perceptible effect conservative discourse, but it would render the left virtually mute.

Banning Stalin/Lenin references would knock off a fraction of a percent of conservative thought, and that only on the fringe. Banning Hitler references...

...would bring an ACLU suit.

Posted by Mitch at January 6, 2004 09:27 PM