{"id":191325,"date":"2009-09-02T20:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/02\/godwins-law-does-not-apply\/"},"modified":"2009-09-02T20:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T01:29:00","slug":"godwins-law-does-not-apply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/02\/godwins-law-does-not-apply\/","title":{"rendered":"Godwin&#8217;s Law Does not Apply*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reason that Godwin&#8217;s law does not apply here is because we are talking about Patrick Buchanan, and, on the 60<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the start of WWII, he&#8217;s writing about  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/csnc\/blogs\/tapped_archive?month=09&amp;year=2009&amp;base_name=pat_buchanan_and_the_benefit_o\">how the war really wasn&#8217;t Hitler&#8217;s fault at all<\/a>, but the fault of those meddling English.<\/p>\n<p>OK, we know that he is a pro-Nazi kook, and we know that his Dad was involved in the German American Bund, so we can only imagine what little Patty&#8217;s dinner table discussions were like, but why does this man have a soap box at MSNBC and other networks?<\/p>\n<p>The issue is not that he is an anti-Semitic and racist kook, it is that mainstream media outlets still feel compelled to give him access?<\/p>\n<p>To quote the late, great Molly Ivins, &#8220;The speech was so much better in the original German.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[on edit] I did not link directly to Pat Buchanan&#8217;s article, though I read it, because I did not want to drive page views.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Godwin%27s_law\">Which states that<\/a>, &#8220;As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1,&#8221; with a corollary that, &#8220;the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically &#8220;lost&#8221; whatever debate was in progress.&#8221;<\/span><sup>\u2020<\/sup><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">It should be noted that this law has not been considered to apply exclusively to Usenet discussions for at least a decade, and is applied generally to all forms of electronic text based communications.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reason that Godwin&#8217;s law does not apply here is because we are talking about Patrick Buchanan, and, on the 60th anniversary of the start of WWII, he&#8217;s writing about how the war really wasn&#8217;t Hitler&#8217;s fault at all, but the fault of those meddling English. OK, we know that he is a pro-Nazi kook, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1114,969,1064,1001,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antisemitism","category-evil","category-media","category-racism","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}