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1. Bob:

I appreciate your hard work. Thanks for corraling this cache of links.

Nov 6, 2009 - 7:27 pm 2. Mike K:

Maybe they can’t really remember. There is a condition in which all short term memory is lost. Of course, this isn’t short term. There is also a condition when all memory is lost. But they can find their way home. It must be a special left wing memory condition.

Nov 7, 2009 - 10:22 am 3. Duke:

Gibbs is the gift that keeps on giving, the daily joke to start your day off with a smile. Unfortunately, the party he shills for is insane as proven by the multitude of links. (gotta love Steyn’s prose at the Dick Durbin link)

Nov 7, 2009 - 10:40 am 4. subrot0:

Please all of you stop uttering your racist comments. As you may not know, the Obama Presidency and all meaningful life began in January 2009. The rest of history and indeed human conversation is utterly irrelevant, useless and racist. So saith the Obama and his underlings.

Nov 7, 2009 - 10:40 am 5. Instapundit » Blog Archive » ED DRISCOLL: Godwin Weeps. A little more help for Robert Gibbs. Though I’ve met Mike Godwin, and …:

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Nov 7, 2009 - 10:41 am 6. Robert Gibbs’ Stupid Mouthpiece Show « The Rhetorican:

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Nov 7, 2009 - 10:58 am 7. JP:

subroot0 you a wrong!

Obama created the world full formed on January 20th, 2009. What you call “History” is a false consciousness implanted in you by Lucifer and other Republicans!

Nov 7, 2009 - 11:18 am 8. E. Nigma:

Well, maybe Robert Gibbs just smokes pot with Barney Frank and his friend. They say that pot smoking hurts short term memory.
At least I think I remember reading that somewhere…..

Nov 7, 2009 - 11:24 am 9. Marty:

May be worth mentioning that the most common (almost the ONLY) poster at the tea-party rallies that shows Obama with a Hitler moustache is by LaRouchies, who call themselves Democrats (tho most Dems want nothing to do with them, either)

Nov 7, 2009 - 11:35 am 10. Ed Driscoll:

Marty,

Great point. I was mostly aiming to round-up a bunch of pre-Obama Godwin’s Law violations, but I’ve covered the LaRouchite Obama-as-Hitler poster a few times here.

Nov 7, 2009 - 11:39 am 11. Imagination optional « Internet Scofflaw:

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Nov 7, 2009 - 12:06 pm 12. Aubrey:

I really can’t recall a prior administration that committed this level of damange to themselves. These guys have turned it into an art. Jon Stewart can let his writers go, he just doesn’t need them anymore.

Nov 7, 2009 - 1:09 pm 13. Zek202:

Good luck reaching Hunter Thompson for comment.

Nov 7, 2009 - 2:13 pm 14. Ed Driscoll:

Zek,

Heh. Not to mention Vonnegut, though at least he was still on the planet earth, when he was still on the planet earth.

Nov 7, 2009 - 2:27 pm 15. Mary Katherine takes clue bat to Bobby Gibbs (update and bump) | BitsBlog:

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Nov 7, 2009 - 2:47 pm 16. ratso:

Gibbs can’t remember? I’m betting this is not the reason: http://tinyurl.com/yl2wv6n But if it is, I say cut him a break.

Nov 7, 2009 - 6:32 pm 17. Jason Coleman:

Beltway Bob strikes again.

Nov 7, 2009 - 7:12 pm 18. R.L. Hunter:

Gibbs needs to learn how to use Google.

Results 1 – 100 of about 9,470,000 for bush hitler. (0.56 seconds)

Nov 7, 2009 - 8:36 pm 19. The Difference:

The differences between the libs who chanted “Hitler” five years ago and the conservatives who do it today include:

1. today’s conservatives who chant “Hitler” were condemned yesterday’s libs at the time. Now they glibly say it’s OK because the libs did it first.

2. The libs who did it five years ago had zero support from their ostensible representatives or the mass media. They weren’t even mocked, they were ignored. Today’s GOP, and its media appendages, are more than happy to encourage all the Hitler references they can get, in the name of “motivation” – even though those same people also condemned libs for doing it five years ago.

3. If it was bad then, it’s bad now. If libs doing it angered you then but conservatives doing it now doesn’t then you are a hypocrite.

4. Godwin’s law does not say anything like what you think it says. Do yourself a favor and look it up.

Nov 8, 2009 - 4:32 pm 20. Ed Driscoll:

“Difference”,

I’m not sure how you can say “The libs who did it five years ago had zero support from their ostensible representatives or the mass media”, when those on the left invoking Hitler included Al Gore, John Glenn, and Charlie Rangel and MoveOn.org (see above links), as well as publications such as the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, MSNBC (re: Olbermann’s endless arguments ad Hitlerum) and the BBC.

Nov 8, 2009 - 4:47 pm 21. The Difference:

“…those on the left invoking Hitler included Al Gore, John Glenn, and Charlie Rangel and MoveOn.org”

MoveOn did no such thing. Again, Look It Up.

Gore’s invocation of Hitler was the exact opposite of what you’re complaining about. He compared denialists to those who saw Hitler as no big deal – he compared global climate change to Hitler, and denialists to those who said we could ignore Hitler.

What John Glenn said was ridiculous, and Rangel is ridiculous.

50% = FAIL.

Nov 8, 2009 - 5:56 pm 22. Ed Driscoll:

The Difference,

You haven’t bothered to read the links above have you? You’re forgetting Gore smearing his opponents as “Digital Brownshirts”

Additionally, the climate change=Holocaust is staggeringly specious: (1) The Holocaust happened. Global warming is/or isn’t, but can’t be directly linked with one death. (2) If Al Gore actually does believe, in his heart of hearts, that global warming is the equivalent of the Holocaust, causing millions of innocent victims to die, then he must do everything possible to stop it. And since Al Gore hasn’t changed a jot of his lifestyle, living luxuriously, flying in private jets, and sponsoring rock concerts (the ridiculous “Earth Aid” concert), he’s demonstrated that he’s a staggering hypocrite.

Additionally, did you click on the first video in the post? That’s from a contest <a href="http://eddriscoll.com/archives/001493.php"sponsored in late 2003/early 2004 by Moveon.org:

Our presidential election year has barely started, and already left-wing troublemakers are getting away with murder. In 2000, the NAACP produced an ad featuring James Byrd’s daughter suggesting George W. Bush was forcing her to relive her father’s pickup-dragging death by refusing to sign a “hate crimes” law. Now the radical haters at MoveOn.Org have used their Internet space to show ads comparing President Bush to Adolf Hitler, and the media, so quick to condemn any negative ads produced by Republicans, are giving them a free ride.

Two 30-second Hitler spots were among more than 1,500 entries for a contest MoveOn.org sponsored to find one that ”tells the truth about George Bush’s policies.” The rules promised that “we’re not going to post anything that would be inappropriate for television,” signaling it’s perfedctly appropriate to compare the president to the author of the Holocaust.

One ad put graphics over pictures of Hitler speaking in German, graphics that somehow made Hitler and Bush both megalomaniacs channeling the will of God. “I believe I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator…God told me to strike at al-Qaida and I struck them, and then He instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did.” The ad ends with the words ”Sound familiar?” on a black and white screen. The other Bush-Hitler ad ended with the message “What were war crimes in 1945 is foreign policy in 2003.”

Nice try, Difference.

Nov 8, 2009 - 6:58 pm 23. dabouv:

Move on is not mainstream media.
Rush Limbaugh is thee man for right wing media. He has the largest audience. He is also very much part of the Rep establishment.
What senator from the Dems came out in the same way against Bush? How many congressman played to the conspiracy theories. Obama had his birthers (which probalby 20 or 30 congressman encourage as well as some senators) and Bush had his 9/11 conspiracy guys who thought he was involved. What mainsteram media was espousing that?
Fox is definately mainstream media.
Move on is clearly a partsan organization.

Nov 8, 2009 - 7:19 pm 24. Dbaz:

Every link (at least for elected officials) goes to an article claiming the person said something but doesn’t actually provide the quote for the reader to decide. You are just to take the word of the author. Why is that? If they really said something so egregious, why not provide the quote?

Nov 8, 2009 - 8:15 pm

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