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To: Bill who wrote (135850)	4/5/2001 3:23:36 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Actually, we're stunned that someone could draw such a parallel. But for the sake of argument (after all, that seems to be the point of many of the posts here), I'll bite. I'm assuming your comparing the propaganda efforts of Goebbels to the PR of the Clinton Administration. Without judging the Clinton PR tactics, there is one key difference (which you may be unlikely to concede). Hitler had total control of all information sources. He regularly had any opponents murdered, and the tactics of fear and terror ensured a single-sided view of everything that Germans saw or heard. Unfortunately for them, they could not control all the events; Jesse Owens must have been a horror to them. I wonder how they spun that one...

To: Bill who wrote (135850)	4/5/2001 3:25:23 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

And every time the Left loses an argument they insist on calling their opponents "big-money-special-interests" instead of simply "wiser citizens". Clinton copied Hitler and other totalitarians with the dangerous "get-this-issue-out-of-politics-because-it's-too-important" fraud because it allows the weak argument to be augmented by an attempt to discredit the opponents on a personal level. It used to be called "fanaticism", but that's out of style today because the new Left, calling itself "liberal" could never stand up to that scrutiny...