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To: LindyBill who wrote (23278)	1/10/2004 1:25:30 AM
From: E	Respond to of 793672

I agree. Exactly. It was a Gotcha thing. Though I don't agree about apples and oranges, in the sense that indignation about a Hitler comparison by those who find such comparisons quite alright on SI, made frequently by their pals, makes the Gotcha element very transparent. And it's not only Gotcha, imo, it's subject-changing, too. But these questions weren't about SI, in any case, and to ask the reaction to them is entirely appropriate: Yesterday, the New York Post ran a long opinion column focusing exclusively on how much Presidential Candidate Howard Dean resembles Hitler, even calling him "Herr Howie." (According to MoveOn; I didn't read the column.) What should the RNC say about the Herr Howie Hitler comparison? What do you say about it? "When close RNC ally Grover Norquist repeatedly compared taxing the wealthy with the Holocaust" ... Shouldn't the RNC have made as big a thing of that? Was Norquist's repeated comment criticized on this thread? How about this, also pointed out by MoveOn? "in 2002, the RNC and its allies were silent when supporters of President Bush actually aired TV ads morphing the face of Senator Max Cleland, a triple amputee as a result of wounds sustained in Vietnam, into Osama bin Laden." They bought and paid for those ads, unlike MoveOn with the tasteless contest entries that didn't appear on TV.