He’s no Hitler — and neither is he!
Some protestors in Wisconsin over Governor Scott Walker’s plan to end union bargaining rights for public employees have resorted to that old standby, the innappropriate Nazi analogy:
I like how they couldn’t even find an actual picture of Hitler, but rather what is clearly someone dressed up in a Hitler costume. C’mon, Cheeseheads — just because you lack all sense of historical proportion, that doesn’t mean you can’t do a better job using Google!
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JustASC is written by Andrew Silow-Carroll, Editor-in-Chief of the 
February 18th, 2011 at 9:34 pm
Glenn Beck’s expose’ of George Soros (no, he never called him a Nazi or Hitler) was met with condemnation. Sarah Palin’s invocation of the term “blood libel” in her refutation of the accusation that her rhetoric instigated the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords earned her similar criticism. Jewish liberals were outraged and unrestrained in their criticism of Beck and Palin.
However Rep. Steve Cohen’s Goebbels/Nazi analogy on the floor of the House was met with tepid criticism from his fellow Jewish liberals. Now, we have the Wisconsin teachers union calling Gov. Scott Walker a cross between Mubarak and Hitler for having the temerity to propose legislation requiring increased employee contributions to health and pension benefits. Where is the outrage from the ADL and the rabbis from the Jewish Funds for Justice? Is calling this imagery “inappropriate Nazi analogy” the best-shot ASC could muster?
In American politics, the use of ad hominem attack and specifically, invocation of Nazi/Hitler/Goebbels etc. indicates that one really cannot make his/her case by arguing facts, so instead he/she calls his/her opponent bad names.
If Jews find the use of Nazi analogies and imagery profane, they need to express their outrage equally across the political spectrum, and not reserve bile only for conservatives. To do otherwise would be simply hypocritical.