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Tuesday, May 6, 2008
WND Suddenly Offended by Hitler Comparison
Topic: WorldNetDaily

The headline of a May 5 WorldNetDaily article shouts, "Evolutionist compares rabbi to Hitler!" It's a reference to Richard Dawkins alleging that Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, in a debate of sorts with Dawkins over evolution, delivered "a shrieking rant, delivered with an intemperate stridency of which Hitler himself might have been proud."

Why is WND so shocked? Its writers and columnists have regularly smeared those it doesn't like with Nazi allusions. Among their targets:

Critics of homeschooling/supporters of public schools

Teachers

Al Gore

Bill Clinton

Hillary Clinton

"liberal special-interest groups"

Supporters of evolution

American Civil Liberties Union

And if the bone of contention is that Dawkins likened a Jew to Hitler, remember that WND editor Joseph Farah did essentially the same thing in September 2007, asserting that Israeli leaders Ehud Olmert and Shimon Peres have a "final solution" to the dispute over the Temple Mount.


Posted by Terry K. at 8:58 AM EDT
Updated: Tuesday, May 6, 2008 11:40 AM EDT

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