Public figures shouldn't launch personal attacks on others by labeling them as "Nazis." I don't like it when liberals do it to conservatives, I don't like it when conservatives do it to liberals, and I don't like it when people in general do it to other people to score political points.
The latest example of a TV personality attacking someone by comparing them to Nazis or to Hitler was The View's Joy Behar. She initiated a blatant attack on outgoing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld while discussing the cover of Time magazine's Person of the Year issue. She didn't think naming everyone ("You") the Person of the Year was good enough, so she said: "You have to put, like, a Hitler type on the cover. Like, you put Don Rumsfeld there, or something."
Like, like, like.
Is she, like, a teen-aged teeny-bopper trying to sound intelligent? I'm not impressed.
Make no mistake: I'm not a fan of Donald Rumsfeld (see my prior posts), but I abhor the comparison that was made. It was sickening and wrong; even the audience didn't agree with her fine forensic analysis of the Time choice for Person of the Year.
Rosie ought to break out the duct tape and shut her up.
It seems like the more often people call one another Nazis or other adjectives which poison the atmosphere, the more the door to other bad words, such as the "n" word (for which other comedians have been heavily criticized for recently) is opened.
I think if things keep going as they are, we are in for a lot of terrible comments which will make the current atmosphere seem tame by comparison.
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