me: “You following the latest kerfuffle started by your boy Senator Cracker?”*
hood:
me: “This time, the esteemed gentleman from West Virginia compared the Republicans’ efforts to circumvent a Democratic-led filibuster of federal judges to the tactics of Hitler and the Nazis…”*
hood:
me: “…though in his defense, I don’t think he really expects Bill Frist to shove Barney Frank or Joe Lieberman into a large convection oven…”
hood:
me: “…so in that sense, at least, he’s being figurative.”
hood:
me: “Still, if anybody would know about Hitlerian tactics, it would be a former Grand Kleagle, right…?”
hood:
me: “…I mean, aren’t Kleagles pretty well-versed in the tactics of history’s most efficient racial purifiers?”
hood:
me: “Or is Bobby just, y’know, bent on proving that he’s as confused about his history as he is about racialism and foreign and domestic policy…?”*
hood:
me: “Because I, for one, would admit to being unsurprised by that.”
hood:
me:
hood:
me: “So.”
hood:
me: “Anything you’d care to add, hood…?”
hood:
me: “Or maybe offer in the Senator’s defense…?”
hood:
me: “No –?”
hood: “– What, you’re serious? The man compared Republicans to Adolf freaking Hitler, boy. I may as well try to defend abortion to the Pope. The miserable papist sonofabitch.”
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See, in my experience, Klan hoods say “sumbitch,” not “sonofabitch.” But potato, potahto, I guess. Maybe Byrd got a hoity-toity one from Oxford, or New Jersey.
The thing that really burns me about all this comparison with the Nazis is, Hitler and his crowd were such lightweights, you know. Now Stalin – there was a REAL totalitarian. You just have to crunch the numbers. No comparison.
The Hood is quite taciturn.
I’m beginning to think the hood is embarrassed of ol’ Sheets.
Which isn’t quite the way I would expect something like that to go, y’know? High profile Dem politician with that in his past, and it’s the dang KKK regalia that wishes it had never sniffed Byrd’s brand of pomade?
Unreal. And yet, here we are.
Unreal. (Did I already say that? I did. Unreal.)
(And my spam word is “southern.”)
(Unreal.)
I call Godwin’s Law on the Grand Klegal.
Godwin’s Law: prov.
[Usenet] “As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.†There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress.
<gently> I think most of us have heard of that.
Actually, you could say that The Hood is smarter than Bobby Byrd, ‘cause it knows how to keep it’s mouth shut.
Sweet Baby Jesus, my Turing word is Black.
Funny. Make you sure you check out the award that Robert Byrd won this week. It’s the <a href=http://www.anklebitingpundits.com/index.php?name=Content_old&pa=showpage&pid=52″> Judge Elihu Smails “Buffoon Of the Week” Award.</A>
You’ll love the picture and this quote:
Sorry, I didn’t link it right.
Funny. Make you sure you check out the award that Robert Byrd won this week. It’s the Judge Elihu Smails “Buffoon Of the Week” Award
You’ll love the picture in the story and this quote: