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To: Sully- who wrote (10681)	5/22/2005 6:01:28 PM
From: Sully-	of 35834

It’s a “New Low” for New York Times Editors Patterico's Pontifications Filed under: Media Bias, Judiciary — Patterico @ 3:19 pm The New York Times today editorializes: <<< The judicial nominations debate reached a new low this week when a Republican senator compared his Democratic colleagues to Hitler. >>> A “new low”?? Evidently the editors haven’t been reading their own paper again. The paper ran an AP story on March 3 which reported that Democratic Senator Robert Byrd had compared his Republican colleagues to Hitler. Here’s the relevant language, from Byrd’s web site: <<< Many times in our history we have taken up arms to protect a minority against the tyrannical majority in other lands. We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini’s Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends. Historian Alan Bullock writes that Hitler’s dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law. Hitler needed a two-thirds vote to pass that law, and he cajoled his opposition in the Reichstag to support it. Bullock writes that “Hitler was prepared to promise anything to get his bill through, with the appearances of legality preserved intact.” And he succeeded. “Hitler’s originality lay in his realization that effective revolutions, in modern conditions, are carried out with, and not against, the power of the State: the correct order of events was first to secure access to that power and then begin his revolution. Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.” And that is what the nuclear option seeks to do to Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate. >>> Conservative bloggers have almost unanimously condemned Santorum’s ridiculous Nazi comparison. But for New York Times editors, it’s only a “new low” when a Republican does it. patterico.com nytimes.com nytimes.com byrd.senate.gov byrd.senate.gov pejmanesque.com captainsquartersblog.com

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