With the appearance of the Hitler Zombie twice in less than a month on this blog, Andrew Mathis was inspired to send me this YouTube video. He's right; it's perhaps the best commentary I've heard about the use of the Hitler analogy or argumentum ad Nazium to demonize one's political opponents.
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Vacation time! While Orac is off in London recharging his circuits and contemplating the linguistic tricks of limericks and jokes or the glory of black holes, he's rerunning some old stuff from his original Blogspot blog. This particular post first appeared on June 10, 2005 and is the second ever…
Vacation time! While Orac off in London recharging his circuits and contemplating the linguistic tricks of limericks and jokes or the glory of black holes, he's rerunning some old stuff from his original Blogspot blog. This particular post first appeared on June 22, 2005 and is the third ever…
Vacation time! While Orac is gone recharging his circuits and contemplating the linguistic tricks of limericks and jokes or the glory of black holes, he's rerunning some old stuff from his original Blogspot blog. This particular post first appeared on June 23, 2005 and is the fourth ever Hitler…
Things are crazy now for me, both at home and at work. I mean really, really crazy. So crazy that even I, one of the most verbose bloggers out there, am forced to take two or three days off from my little addiction--I mean habit. Consequently, having foreseen that this time would come around these…
I believe you've achieved Godwin's rule in the opening post. That will make for a short thread.
That was hilarious
Dear Wamba:
I suggest that you spend some time learning about the context of Godwin's Law. Note that it requires a Hitler comparison as a form of debate. Thus, Orac's comment is not even close.
BTW, here is a link to the original post of Mike Godwin:
http://tinyurl.com/f57e7
Dear TheProbe: Medical science is making wonderful advances. I suggest you look into getting a humour implant.
TheProbe does have a sense a humor... he did laugh at my joke. (and NO!, I am not going to send him a replacement keyboard because of something I posted on misc.health.alternative.)... he is just particular on the use of Godwin (something I always goof up).
:)
If I might be forgiven a blatant post-pimp, the subject of my latest post makes a particularly credulous use of Godwin's Law (see referenced PDF for details).
Kev,
Oh, I've seen your latest article. Ayoub is truly a loon. David Icke, anyone?
The video's vanished from YouTube, but there's a playable version here:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0605/jon_stewart_holo.php3