Rob Reiner Compares Tea Party To Hitler On Bill Maher’s Real Time
After a week of good behavior brought on by the presence of “Tea Party Person” Dana Loesch, Real Time with Bill Maher returned to “Teabagger”-baiting with a renewed gusto. Besides returning to the free and frequent use of the Liptonian metaphor, Real Time panelist Rob Reiner deployed a guest bogeyman that’s also popular with the Tea Party: Hitler.
While much has (rightly) been made of Tea Partiers fearmongering President Obama as Hitler, that didn’t stop Reiner from speculating that the Tea Party could easily spawn the next Hitler.
(via HBO)
Of course, everyone always thinks their Hitler metaphor is okay because the other guy is really bad, but I think White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs offered as succinct a judgment on this as I’ve heard:
You hear — in this debate you hear analogies, you hear references to, you see pictures about and depictions of individuals that are truly stunning. And you hear it all the time. People — imagine five years ago somebody comparing health care reform to 9/11. Imagine just a few years ago had somebody walked around with images of Hitler. Hopefully we can get back to a discussion about the issues that are important in this country, that we can do without being personally disagreeable and set up comparisons to things that were so insidious in our history that anybody in any professional walk of life would be well advised to compare nothing to those atrocities.
Gibbs is right, of course, but he overlooks an important fact. Neither side owns the copyright to Hitler comparisons, and in these polarized times, the notion that the other guy is as bad as Hitler may just be one of the last remaining parcels of common ground.
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