GOP: Sauce for the Goose Is Terrible for the Gander

We’ve noted the corporate media’s double standard on Nazi analogies: When conservatives are compared to the Third Reich, however obscurely, it’s an outrageous slur, but when leaders of the right charge progressives with Hitler-like tendencies, it’s unremarkable political rhetoric.

If we’re to believe the faux-outrage, the reference to slavery was the rhetorical element that went too far. But this, apparently, is a new concern–the right has been far more direct in making the same comparison. Harry Reid was talking about key moments in history in which the right was wrong, but Michele Bachmann recently called the Democrats’ legislative agenda “nothing more than slavery,” and no one said a word. Indeed, conservatives routinely insist that the left is trying “enslave” America, and the political mainstream just shrugs its shoulders in response.

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