Eric Dondero, who served a variety of positions under Ron Paul, including Senior Aide from 1997 to 2003, issued a wide-ranging statement to Right Wing News on Monday, asserting that Paul is not a racist or homophobe, while shedding light on some of Paul’s personal beliefs on things like using a gay man’s bathroom and the existence of Israel.

There’s an almost irresistible story circulating on the internet that seems to suggest that petitions for the recall of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker have been signed by the likes of Mickey Mouse and Adolf Hitler, and that those signatures will be counted in that recall effort. It’s the kind of story that makes for ideal two-minute filler on 24-hour news outlets, so before it gets a head of steam, let’s look beyond the overreaching headline (“Mickey Mouse, Adolf Hitler Allowed On Wis. Recall Petitions“) and vague copy, to what is actually a run-of-the-mill process story.

If there’s been one thing that every Mediaite writer since the origin of this website back in 1862 (don’t look it up), it’s that people need to stop calling other people “Hitler.” We’ve written a number of columns about the issue but it seems like, every few months or so, there’s a new rash of Nazi-name calling. Maybe GBTV’s Brian Sack will have better luck in ending Godwin’s Law with this clip from The B.S. of A. Sack’s making the same argument, however, he’s trying one thing we’ve never thought of; puppets.

What happens when you get Brian Williams, Mario Batali, Anita Hill, Jesse Eisenberg, Grover Norquist, and Seth Meyers together in a room to discuss TIME‘s Person of The Year? Hitler references, of course!

Earlier today, Mediaite Managing Editor Colby Hall gleefully reported that ESPN had pulled Hank Williams Jr.’s iconic “Are You Ready For Some Football” song from last night’s Monday Night Football broadcast, in response to remarks that Hank made, on Fox and Friends, in which he compared President Obama’s golf outing with Speaker John Boehner to an outing [...]

Man, do the British love cross-dressing. It’s as much a part of their cultural heritage as their love of queen and country and their mistaken belief that putting a plunger on the front of a tin can makes for an intimidating sci-fi villain. Yes, place a wig on a British funny man, have him raise his voice an octave, and the entirety of London is brought to its knees with an epidemic of split sides. However, a new book has revealed that the British once considered taking their love of drag to an extreme we never could have imagined; they tried to end World War II by secretly turning Adolf Hitler into a lady.

Joe Levy, editor in chief of Maxim, that veritable Bible of celebrity underboob, was a panelist on Joy Behar‘s HLN show last night. Talk, naturally, turned to Michele Bachmann‘s Newsweek, as well as to Kanye West, who compared himself to Adolf Hitler (“People look at me like I’m [fudging] insane, like I’m Hitler.”] because God forbid anyone go a day without discussing Kanye West.

Behar turned to her guests and asked “‘Why is it always Hitler? Why not that Bachelor? Why not Osama Bin Laden? Why not Saddam Hussein?” Why not, for that matter, the Pillsbury doughboy, that twittering demon-blob who is clearly the very manifestation of pure, unadulterated evil?

Then Levy weighed in…

Surprise, surprise, Rush Limbaugh was not a fan of President Obama’s speech on Afghanistan last night. Although it may be a bit more shocking just how quickly Rush’s humorous assertion that losing wars is an impressive credential on the resume of any Democratic politician, turned into a random, over-the-top comparison of Obama to Adolf Hitler.

You’ve probably heard at this point that Glenn Beck is on a bit of an Israel kick. That’s involved spending as much time as possible explaining to his viewers why they should care about the plight of our friends in the Middle East. One of the main ways he’s done that is by comparing the much touted “Arab Spring” occurring in the region to the rise of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. Of course, if the governments springing up in countries like Egypt are the Nazis, what does that make people like our President who is giving a speech supporting the “Spring” tomorrow morning? Well, Beck made his former insinuations clear by comparing President Obama and the Left to American Nazi appeasers of the last century.

As the old saying goes, every group has a few bad apples. As the slightly newer saying goes, when those apples are bad enough, make sure you send someone out with a digital camera to take pictures. Wisconsin Republicans have taken this to heart by producing a YouTube video featuring some of the nastiest signs from the protests over Governor Scott Walker’s budget cuts. The video intercuts these images with snippets of different high profile Democrats and Liberals accusing Conservatives of using violent rhetoric.

Airport security expert Ann Coulter has some strong opinions about the TSA’s controversial pat-down procedures.

This weekend at a stand-up show in Ohio, things got decidedly unfunny when an audience member told Michael Ian Black that saying you like President Obama is like saying “Heil Hitler.” Black went off on the audience member, yelling at him until he left. He later though, wrote an interesting blog post about the situation and the problems with using Hitler in political discussions. All due respect to Stewart and Colbert, but it’s intriguing how good non-political comedians sometimes are at analyzing the level of political discourse in this country.

Thank your blessings, Mel Gibson; someone else from Hollywood just took you out of the headlines. Oliver Stone gave an interview with the The Sunday Times to promote his new documentary series and he gave some choice quotes including decrying the “Jewish domination of the media.” Ah, talking about the Jew-run media. If I remember correctly, that’s number three on the list of “Quotes to Kill Your Movie Career” right behind “Child molestation isn’t so bad” and “Hello, my name is M. Night Shyamalan.”

That tea partiers often express radical views is almost a universally known fact by now. But when fellow tea partiers start questioning that extreme perspective, it’s likely not a good sign. Such is the case with the North Iowa Tea Party — the group that erected a billboard that compares President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin. Now, another group, the Iowa Tea Party, says the billboard might be crossing the line.

It’s time again for Time magazine to choose their “Person of the Year” — but it may not be a person! An esteemed panel including Dr. Oz thinks it might be Twitter or The Economy. What are the chances? Phil Bump doesn’t like taking chances, so he breaks it all down by statistical probability: How likely is it that the Time “Person of the Year” will actually be … a person?

The internet was abuzz this weekend when Britain’s Daily Telegraph reported that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a fervent opponent of Israel and frequent Holocaust denier, was actually of Jewish ancestry. Many major media outlets proliferated the story, which has since been been refuted. Why did the web get fooled?

Earlier this week Rachel Sklar looked at who was behind the Obama-as-Hitler posters, but we’ve got another theory.

We joked about it during yesterday’s Office Hours – maybe all these posters and protesters are part of a secret viral marketing campaign for Quentin Tarantino‘s new film, “Inglourious Basterds“!