More Political Hypocrisy: Critics Slam Coulter for Calling Edwards a Gay Slur, But It's OK for Them to Call Their Rivals "Nazis"

Mr. Pot, leave Mr. Kettle alone.

Ann Coulter turned a lot of heads by referring to John Edwards as a "faggot" and then followed up her remarks by saying she wouldn't denigrate gays by comparing them to John Edwards.

Demands from various individuals and groups have been for her to apologize for her remarks.

I don't think she should. Not until some others do first.

After all, some of these SAME people have nothing to say when THEY refer to their political opponents (or the U.S. military--SENATOR DURBIN) as "Nazis" or other foul expressions.

It's opposite sides of the same coin. Throw the thing out.

But these people shouldn't go crying foul while overlooking the use of the Nazi label against the other side. "Nazi" hurts just as much as the aforementioned gay slur.

It's just more of the "I'm going to hit you. Don't hit me back" routine.

Calling Someone a Nazi to Score Political Points is Reprehensible; This Tactic Has No Place in Civilized Discourse

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.

One Major Mess: What Do We Do With 80 Year-Old Nazi SS Guards Accused of Aiding in the Holocaust?

Ever since the end of World War II, the U.S. government and outside agencies have discovered the presence of Nazi SS prison guards who quietly escaped justice in Europe and ended up over here living amongst us. All concealed their true identities; many became U.S. citizens. When they're been discovered, they've been stripped of their citizenship and taken into custody to await transport back to Europe to stand trial for their alleged crimes during the Holocaust.

Now these former SS men are 80 years old or older. And their home nations don't want them back. They don't want to hold trials because of the embarrassment it would cause them.

Six such men are in such a situation in Michigan.

They've been stripped of their citizenship and are awaiting expulsion. But Europe doesn't want them back. The International Criminal Court cannot put them on trial as their crimes predate the ICC's founding in 2002. And these men have fewer years ahead than they do behind.

It's kind of hypocritical that Germany is willing to press charges against Donald Rumsfeld for alleged crimes against humanity in Iraq, but won't put members of the SS on trial for crimes committed during the Holocaust against Jews in the name of the German people.

So what is to be done with these SS men now?

If we do nothing and let them go, justice remains undelivered for their victims. If the decision is made to prosecute them here, will they all understand what's going on, especially those suffering from dementia or from Alzheimer's?

What a major mess.