“The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”

Socialist Party presidential candidate Norman Thomas


Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Steve Cohen validates Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies

Tennessee democrat Steve Cohen, who I'm guessing might be a Jew, has simultaneously disobeyed Chairman Zero and validated Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies by comparing republicans who want to repeal Obamacare, to Nazis.....

From Hotair -- “They say it’s a government takeover of health care, a big lie just like Goebbels,” Cohen said. “You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, and eventually, people believe it. Like blood libel. That’s the same kind of thing. And Congressman Cohen didn’t stop there.

“The Germans said enough about the Jews and people believed it–believed it and you have the Holocaust. We heard on this floor, government takeover of health care. Politifact said the biggest lie of 2010 was a government takeover of health care because there is no government takeover,” Cohen said.

Wasn't it Obama who suggested both parties tone down the hysterical vitriol and partisan rancor? I'd say that calling somebody a Nazi ranks as hysterically vitriolic and rancorous.

Also as you know, Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies clearly states that, "as a discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." A commonly accepted corollary of Godwin's Law points out that anybody who invokes the Nazi analogy officially cedes the argument and loses.

Ergo, by comparing republicans to Nazis, Steve Cohen loses the health-care debate.

2 comments:

Bill said...

I remember Cong. "Saint" John Lewis from the 1995 budget wars yelling, "they're coming for the old, they're coming for the children, they're coming for etc." He was clearly invoking Nazism.

Bill said...

NPR's Mara Liasson used almost your exact formulation in rejecting this guy's Nazi imagery on the Fox News Special Report today.