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   From: JBG@nospam.com   
      
   Leland Milton Goldblatt PhD wrote:   
      
   > As The Nation's John Nichols reports, MoveOn.org is being pounded upon   
   > hysterically by the Republican Party over two ad contest entries --   
   > mailed in from the public, not endorsed by MoveOn and even apologized   
   > for and pulled from the website -- ads that compared George W. Bush to   
   > Adolf Hitler.   
   >   
   > MoveOn notes sourly, however, that none of this indignation was around   
   > when Democratic Senator Max Cleland -- a decorated veteran who lost   
   > both legs and an arm serving in Vietnam -- was smeared by the   
   > Republican leadership with television advertisements comparing him to   
   > Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.   
   >   
   > And Timothy Karr at MediaChannel.org observes, even as the mainstream   
   > media has raised cries of shame at the Bush-Hitler ads -- which were   
   > mailed in to a "Bush in 30 Seconds" ad contest and promptly rejected   
   > -- there's been silence about the still-truculently defiant decision   
   > by The New York Post to run a column devoted entirely to comparing   
   > Howard Dean supporters to Hitler's Brownshirts, and Dean himself to   
   > Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.   
   >   
   > Kerr suggests you ask your favorite news outlet to explain the double-   
   > standard: Two citizens send in speech comparing the Bush   
   > Administration to Hitler -- speech that's promptly rejected by   
   > progressives, even apologized for, out of embarrassment to even be   
   > briefly associated with -- and it's a sordid national news event. But   
   > leading citizens and editors at a major metropolitan newspaper craft   
   > and print a detailed comparison of Howard Dean to Hitler -- they don't   
   > apologize -- they don't back down or disavow -- and there's smug   
   > silence.   
   >   
   > While you're at it, ask them how it wasn't a national disgrace that a   
   > man who left three of his limbs on the battlefield in Vietnam could be   
   > called, in Republican Party-sponsored ads on television, an al-Qaeda   
   > lover -- just because Republican operatives coveted his Senate seat,   
   > and becase he had dared question the president's war in Iraq. That was   
   > probably the closest thing we've seen yet to a Goebbels moment --   
   > where was The New York Post's crack Goebbels-watching team then? Maybe   
   > if the Republicans policed their own ranks, a minority of the American   
   > public wouldn't be entertaining dark fears about homegrown fascism.   
   >   
   > Shalom,   
   > ---Prof. Leland Milton Goldblatt, Ph.D. ®   
   > Reverend Chancellor Leland Milton Goldblatt Ph.D. ED.D. M.F.A, D.Div.   
   > M.Theo .   
   > Copyright © 2003   
   >   
   >   
      
   And yet more plagiarism from goldblatt. This time he has stolen a piece   
   from Matt Bivens. Your still a thief and a fraud.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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