[quote=pri_dk]
Doesn’t really change the point though. The Nazis did lots of bad things “pre” WWII also.
You say there is just as much vitriol coming from the left?[/quote]
Pri: As to the comment about the Nazis and bad things, pre-WWII: No, they really didn’t. Even things like “Kristallnacht” (“Night of Broken Glass”) in 1938 were fairly small in nature, compared to what was going on (and had been going on) inside the the USSR. Hitler’s killing machine didn’t really warm up till after the invasion of USSR and the “Endlosung” (Final Solution) wasn’t realized until 1942. If you compare data, you’ll see that the Nazis, up till that point, were pikers when compared to Stalin and Co.
As to the vitriol from the Left: Absolutely, and I don’t say that out of any sense of party loyalty to the GOP. Whether we’re talking about “Bush Derangement Syndrome” during the Dubya years, when you had Lefties actively agitating for his assassination (supported by movies like “Death of a President”), advocating “regime change begins at home”, to carrying signs that read, “Snipers Wanted”. At present you have people like Dylan Ratigan, Randi Rhodes, Mike Malloy, Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann and Bill Maher, all of whom, implicitly or explicitly, use the language of violence and either endorse or condone it, when done for the “right reasons” or a “good cause”.
You definitely hear it more from the Right, and mainly due to the fact that viewership and listenership is larger (think Limbaugh, Beck and FOX News versus Air America, MSNBC, etc).
