doodleicious www.fair.org 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.

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gugua www.goethe.de Set and costume designer, born in 1973, studied art and design in Kassel, Berlin and Hamburg. In 2000 she started working with René Pollesch in his productions at the Podewil theatre at the Prater at the Volksbühne am Rosa Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin, at Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, at Burgtheater Wien, at Schauspiel Hannover and at Munich Kammerspiele. She also worked as costume or set designer in theatre productions of Christoph Schlingensief, Schorsch Kamerun, Stefan Pucher and the theatrical collective Rimini-Protokoll as well as in operas directed by Stefan Bachmann und Peter Musbach

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