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Sean Hannity accused a guest: You guys on the left are going so far over the cliff. Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway said on Hannitys show, This is the hateful, vitriolic rhetoric that has become the Howard Dean Democratic Party. Bill OReilly cited the ads as evidence that right now in America the Democratic party is being held captive by the far, far left. It should be noted that however hyperbolic, comparisons to Hitler and fascism are not unknown in the American political debate. Rush Limbaugh has routinely called womens rights advocates femi-Nazis, and references to Hitlery Clinton are a staple of right-wing talk radio. Republican power-broker Grover Norquist on NPR 10/2/03 compared inheritance taxes to the Holocaust. The New York Post , like Fox News Channel , is part of News Corporation, Rupert Murdochs conservative media empire. And this piece wasnt just put up on the Post s website as part of a contest-it was written by a right-wing commentator who frequently appears in the Post s pages, Ralph Peters, and selected for the op-ed page by the Post s own editors. So its more than a little embarrassing that these blatant Nazi comparisons were being made in the Post while the papers corporate sibling was denouncing such comparisons as a sign of derangement. Fox appears to have completely ignored the Post s own Nazi analogies-theres no reference to the column whatsoever in the cable channels transcripts. And the New York Post seems to have sent the column down the memory hole-clicking on a link that used to go to Peters story gives you a page not found message, and the text isnt found in the Nexis media database. Ironically, in light of this Orwellian disappearing act, the column also compared Dean to Big Brother. In the interview that started the brouhaha, the RNCs Gillespie was asked if he would oppose similar attacks on Democrats. He replied: If they stoop to the kind of despicable tactic like morphing a candidate into Adolf Hitler, yes, absolutely, I will tell you right here on the air. The same organization that interviewed him did that, through another of its branches, the very next day. So far, Fox News hasnt had him back on to condemn the New York Post . ACTION : Please ask the New York Post whether it stands by the column it published describing Howard Dean as a Nazi, or if it owes Dean an apology. And ask Fox News Channel why they didnt criticize that column, even though its hosts repeatedly condemned such analogies that same day-when they involved George W.
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