OMG, Herr Rosie!
HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!!11!!!1!!!

That is SO fug!

My favorites are Mugabe comparing himself to Hitler (talk about stealing your critics' thunder!) and the transcript of Ross Perot. I had forgotten how insane he was.

Also:

"Prof. Timothy Shortell, who compares the Bush administration with Nazi Germany, is promoted to Chair of Brooklyn College's Sociology Department."

http://www.frontpagemag.com/

Anyone who would write post like this is a little bit like Hitler.

For my 15 minutes I would like to deliver one of those speeches, with the spittle flying out of my mouth where the crowd gets whipped into a frenzy.

Fun.

I think.

You know, this comparison to Hitler meme is mostly a cultural thing of Americans and Europeans (Chavez and others notwithstanding). I say this because in my experience nobody I know uses it. In a funny but quite appropriate way, one guy found someone else to personify evil as the following anecdote will show.

My sister owns a gym in a mostly Hispanic neighborhood in New York City, and she manages it in a pleasant but strict manner. She has to, otherwise, as with any club, the inmates will run the asylum. It is this strictness that seems to bother some malcontents. A few days ago I overheard a Fellow-Dominican saying “She is meaner than Bin Laden”.

That guy may be an obnoxious malcontent but as a New Yorker he knows who has done him harm and it’s not Hitler.

Your energy and your bright mind are only overshadowed by your obsessive-compulsiveness.
All in all, a rather un-Hiterlerian combination.
You, Jeff, are not like Hitler. Sorry.

On a more serious note (!), the ubiquity and mindlessness of Hitler-comparisons has watered down the evil of Hitler. He's the one person that almost everyone can admit is evil --although I assume that most liberals would find the word obnoxious even for him, to be consistent of course (ha!)-- but the overuse sorta takes the sting out of it all in thend. I don't know if that's a good thing or an...evil thing.

Mugabe actually said he was Hitler times ten. He was pretty hard on himself; I'm afraid he'sd himself to criticism from himself for going "beyond the pale."

Since I am a "tobacco apologist," I particularly enjoyed the smoking one. I hear Hitler wiped his ass too, does that mean I should stop?

Myself, I'd rather be compared to Casanova.

Meanwhile, Hitler compared himself to Stalin, and felt that he suffered by the comparison. In his last days in the bunker, Hitler was convinced that he could have won if he had been as ruthless as Stalin. "In the end," he said, "what you regret most is being too kind."

I love the image of Hitler going to Hell, regretting his many kindnesses.

Lessee; Hitler - sexually ambiguous vegetarian, failed artist, coffeehouse philosopher. Likes: funny facial hair, snappy clothes, over-the-top opera. Dislikes: big business, the bourgeoise, Americans and Jews.

If Hitler exists today, he's a copy editor at the Village Voice.

Hmmm...I'm suprised no one's compared Senator Byrd to Hitler. I mean, with his KKK past and all...

http://schadenfreude.cogitox.com/archives/000091.html

Another one out of the ballpark: great post...thanks.

"Mugabe actually said he was Hitler times ten."

Well, I am Hitler to infinity!

Neener, neener.

(Most Hated Name Here)

"For my 15 minutes I would like to deliver one of those speeches, with the spittle flying out of my mouth . . ."

There are great Hitlerian rages in the recent German flick, "Downfall" (Untergang) about the final days in the Führerbunker. Very highly recommended.

Essem comments thst "the ubiquity and mindlessness of Hitler-comparisons has watered down the evil of Hitler."

This is especially true of Sen. Byrd's scurillous comparison of the Republicans to the Nazis during the Senate nuclear option debate, suggesting that the GOP was trying to undermine democracy through quasi-legal parliamentary maneuvers. (We now know just how ruthless Frist's fascists were, and can thank Byrd, I guess, for "saving the Republic.")

If you want to know what REAL political terror is like in the takeover of a parliamentary democracy, read "The Coming of the Third Reich" by Richard J. Evans (Penguin 2003).

Evans writes that "Even the most conservative, quasi-official reckoning put the total number of political arrests in Germany in 1933 at 100,000, and the number of deaths in custody at nearly 600. This was violence and murder on a staggering level. . . ." It was all sanctioned by Hitler with zero judicial interference (of course).

As someone else recently pointed out, political debate stops when the Hitler analogy is invoked. I am sooooo tired of this.

Don't forget Goldstein likes to compare me to the Nazi's.

Great post.

They're simply exercising Godwin's Law, first formulated in 1990, I believe. Click it and it'll take you to wikipedia for more info.

Let's try that again, Godwins Law at wikipedia.

Thanks, Guntrash, for the link to Godwin's Law. Duh, I knew I had read it somewhere, but didn't realize it went back 15 years!

this post is BRILLIANT! all i have to do to get in the spotlight is get myself compared to hitler. from the looks of it above, doesn't seem to be that hard these days...

"I'm Hitler! And so is my wife!"

Hilter's dead??? When???

That's the thing I hate about the "intellectualism" on the left, they can't deal with reality so they have to avail themselves of the argument by metaphor. God knows they are usually the ones ranting about the right-wingers being Hitlers and such, conveniently ignoring the fact that Hitler was actually a highly nationalistic left-wing socialist. They can't even get their anologies correct.

And failing that, the left then predicatably resorts to argument by fortune cookies which unfolding reality invariably proves false.

And the liberal canard about conservatives being homophobes/racists/bigots/chauvinists has also become a tiresome bit of false rhetoric. I thought these people were supposed to be highly-educated and smart. They appear to be nothing more than self-absorbed narcissists living in the futility of their own echo chambers. Utopian moonbats! So utopian-minded they are of little earthly good.

No reason to leave animals out. Today I saw someone walking a small dog that had an expression on its face remarkably like Hitler's as he would pause during speeches to allow people to applaud.

I myself have frequently been compared to Hitler by significant others

Ich bin ein Hitler.

Nothing compares to Russian Nazi Monkeys!

God I wish people would STFU about godwins law. It's neither a law nor a very compelling meme. It's just some stupid quotable internet parasite that stupid people quote and misquote in an attempt to sound intelligent. STOP IT.

The only thing that really bothers me about all the "Hitlersteria" is; The likely outcome will be just like the boy who cried Wolf. When the Next Hitler does come, no one will be looking for him.

So much for Never Happening Again...

*I myself have frequently been compared to Hitler by significant others*

I am beginning to feel distinctly left out.

I have never been compared to Hitler.

What am I doing wrong? Godwin, Godwin, why hast Thou forsaken me?

...actually I said that hoping to annoy Sal into calling me a little Hitler, or at least a little Eichmann...

I blame the Hitlery channel.


(Someone told me that TV channel is actually called the "History" channel. Funny!)

Great Post!

I was called Mrs. Hitler just this week. Not as good as Hitler, I suppose, but hilarious none the less. Now all I need is a mustache on my picture and I'm set.

Too funny and too perfect. I was just thinking about how ridiculous it is how people compare EVERYONE to Hitler. I commented on a lefty blog just the other day. This is exactly what I was talking about, I just couldn't come up with such a creative way of saying it!

But why don't they ever compare people to Stalin?

This is the meme that feeds itself. The next wave is the non-comparison comparison, where the commentator knows that there is no comparison but can't resist alluding to one, ergo: "Now, while I personally think comparisons to our current government and Nazi Germany are absurd, offensive and based in ignorance, the growing national comfort with authoritarian and totalitarian measures cannot be ignored" - Chris Bowers at MyDD.

Rough guess? Conservatives, recently off a 40 year rant, are sick of griping about the damn commies and liberals, some of whom covered for the soviets for years, just can't bring themselves to shout "Stalin" and point the finger. It would remind them too much of Reagan...

You must admit, however, Stalin's moustache is simply excellent in the photoshop category...think of the possibilities.

I much rather compare people to Jeffrey Dahmer..."oh, just eat me..."

Um, the third photo was HOT. First time I ever felt like boinking Hitler.

Eeewww, a backhanded comparison of Reagan to Stalin, quite timely, clever on its face but devoid of understanding at its core.

Angelina Jolie is only 49% compatible with Hitler but Rosie is 99% !

But why don't they ever compare people to Stalin?

To sort-of quote P.J. O'Rourke: nobody has sexual fantasies about being ravished by someone dressed in a Red Army uniform.

(Mr. Lileks - I cited the source. Please don't send Japser after me...)

re pat buchanan:

he has said a large number of antisemitic things (actually, its fairly well acknowledged that the's an anti-semite). he's also "mispoken" himself into giving hitler favourable treatment (of the trains run on time crap, mostly with respect to dealing with communists).

also, trumps accusation wasn't that buchanan was hitler, but that he liked him, which is pretty close to the truth. his hyperbole's inclusion in your list is itself hyperbole.

otherwise great list

Such a silly comparison; they're really like Stalin.

(sung to the dr. pepper song...)
Im a hitler, youre a hitler, wouldnt you like to be a hitler too? come on sing it with kids, oh Im a hitler...

Nobody ever says " that guy is like Stalin-pol pot-mussolini-quisling. You cant get two people to agree on the weather, but everyone everywhere is in agreement that the one-balled syphillitic closet homosexual vegetarian austrian man with bad hair is the bottom metric for evil in the world.

And yet, somehow, it doesnt bother me in the slightest to think that either. It does bother me that weve so watered down the qualification for " Youre a hitler" that it now has no real meaning. hitler was a very bad man. He was not the cartoon vampire that people have made him into. He was evil and we should not forget that. We should reseve calling people hitler for the very worst people and only on very special ocasions. calling your mother in law "hitler" sort of disrespects the 52 million people who died in the war that the madman started to salve his vanity.

I myself will be Hilter, a near miss.

Damn! Sounds like Hitler needs a marketing manager and a IP lawyer to dampen down the watering down of the brand.

Don't you think?

Jeff - You forgot the Pope!

Glenn Reynolds was only compared to Mussolini. Why do bloggers always seem to get the short shrift?

*standing ovation*

*wipes eyes*

To claim credit where credit is due.
Your title for this post is the text of the first letter of mine to the editor of the LA Times that was published. It was back during Gulf War One.
Closest thing to glory a ranter was able to get prior to the age of blogs.

You haven't hit it big until you're compared to Hitler. This internet thing won't have truly arrived until I see 'LIVE!!! Hilter Nude, XXX!!'

This site is brilliant! I have contended, for some time now, that people actually adore Hitler and the Nazis. Not necessarily like or approve - but Hitler/The Nazis are a Final Touchstone of All Things Dread-filled.. People always invoke Hitler/The Nazis, for all types of reasons. This proves that Hilter looms LARGE in the imaginaiton of very many people.

This site provides proof of the verity of my theory. Thanks, loads!

We are all hitlers on this bus.

Here are some more Hitler comparisons --

RexCurry.net compares FDR to Hitler
http://rexcurry.net/bookchapter5a1.html

RexCurry.net compares the pledge of allegiance to Hitler with photos http://rexcurry.net/pledge2.html

RexCurry.net compares Francis Bellamy to Hitler
http://rexcurry.net/pledgetragedy.html

RexCurry.net compares Edward Bellamy to Hitler
http://rexcurry.net/pledgebackward.html

RexCurry.net is the site that discovered that the straight-arm salute of the monstrous National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis) came from the USA's original pledge of allegiance in government schools (as written by Edward Bellamy's cousin and philosophical utopian cohort Francis Bellamy, both national socialists in the USA). The salute did not come from ancient Rome.
I am the author of the forthcoming book "Looking at the Backward Bellamys" and "Looking at Backward Edward, of the Bellamy writers" and "The Pledge of Allegiance and the Bellamys" at
http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html

The book exposes their influence upon the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part): 62 million dead under the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; 35 million dead under the People's Republic of China; 21 million dead under the National Socialist German Workers' Party.

The Pledge began with a military salute that extended outward toward the flag. The military salute became the Nazi salute.

The author of the pledge of allegiance was a self-proclaimed socialist in the nationalism movement and his (and Edward Bellamy's) dogma influenced socialists in Germany, and his pledge was the origin of their salute.

RexCurry.net also discovered that although the swastika was an ancient symbol, it was sometimes used under the Nazis to represent overlapping "S" letters for the "socialism" of the National Socialist German Workers Party. People forget that "Nazi" means "National Socialist German
Workers' Party." A mnemonic device is the ancient swastika that was used as two overlapping "S" letters for "socialism" under Nazism. I am the author of the forthcoming book "Swastika Secrets" at
http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-swastika.html

Don't forget Hitlery Clinton.

Yesterday on the Hugh Hewitt radio show, the guest host said that "in the future everyone will compared to Hitler, which is a thing going around the blogosphere right now."

You didn't get credit.

You're nobody until someone "Hitlers" you.

Britney Spears will save her career with the song "Hitler Me Baby One More Time."

Politicians (like Robert Mugabe) jostle to compare themselves with Hitler to gain "street cred".

Who won the bloody war, anyway??

Hilarious, but what's the point? That people who don't know what they are talking about should refrain from comparing individuals to the individual who was Adolf Hitler? Ya, ok .. so now what!? You don't have to have tried to murder an entire ethnic group to be a fascist. You don't have to be the leader of a nation which tried to dominate the planet through military force, to be a fascist (although if you happen to be one that is, you certainly are). Calling someone a fascist does not mean you are calling them "Adolf Hitler". It's not rocket science.

"I developed Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."
-- Mike Godwin (online counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation), here:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/godwin.if_pr.html

"There is a tradition in many Usenet newsgroups that once such a comparison is made, the thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress." -- from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law (as it stood on 3-22-2005)

-- from Berserk in Berkeley: Confusing Reagan and Hitler!

Cassandra, you Nazi!

If I was Hitler before this trend started, will I get another shot?

"In Brahman there is no diversity, he who sees diversity goes from death to death." Problem with realizing we are more alike than we are different, is we then have to somehow accept we are all more like Hitler, Manson, Dahmer, etc, than we are different. It's unacceptable to our tiny minds to admit we have the potential to be the worst of mankind, yet we have no problem accepting we could be, or strive to be, no different than the best.

HITLER WAS HITLER!!!!!
Oooooops! Sorry.

Watch the Daily Show tonight (Thursday). They totally ripped you off.

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Sigh...
As if I wasn't ashamed enough just for being a German (even if I was born in 1988)...

Where is the "Hitler-Test"? I'd like to know how much I resemble to Hitler

.....

Jeff, I worked with Adolph Hitler; I knew Adolph Hitler. Jeff, you're no Adolph Hitler.

If that freaky dopey American guy wins the Tour de France he proves being at least a Hitlerian. It is in the numbers: 7 wins in a row means 8 minus 1. 8 stands for H and 1 for the A in the alphabet. Hitler Adolf is austrian for Adolf Hitler. Sports is war.

Wow! People are obsessed with Hitler. Next, you should see how many people are compared to King Henry VIII, the way-too-many-wives guy.

Ever feel the need to read about Hitler having sex? I did, after seeing DOWNFALL... So I wrote about it... fure fiction mind you...

http://adultfan.nexcess.net/aff/story.php?no=544189572

Stalin was miles better than Hitler. Stalin was responsible for only 20million deaths. While Hitler was responsible for 42million. Most deaths by Stalin were during a civil war and therest in other situations. Th eonly people who claim otherwise are people who have read that that rubbish Mnedveved and Conquest book, that has a crappy view. It says at the bottom of the table that calims Stalin killed 50million, that the numbers of added genocides may be the same figures. In other words he claim a person executed in the Ukrainain famione, as a death in a famine, a death in a gulag and a execution. He also counts people who were never born. For instance in the Ukraina famine the birth rate fell, he includes that as deaths. This is nonsense, as if that were true then that would mean 3.5million not a million died in the Irish famine. And would mean that more people died in world war one than is claimed. For instance all the men were at war during the conflict so that would mean as birth rates fwell hugely around 50milliondied in world war one. And the same happened in Britain, It is insane to claim Stalin killed more, by including a fall in birth rates for the Ukrainiaan famine, but not inclduing the fall ion birth rates in Ukraine during world war two, or the fall in Britain. The stats also claim 10million died in gulags. A insane claim, based on the idea that half the gulag residents died. This claim is dshonest aswell as in the Gulags were ordinary murderers, and war criminals. I do not think that people who were murderers should be included. And anyhow the US alabaman prisons should then be included in that case US "gulags" have killed thousands of people by executions, and putting people in terrible conditions, as criminals allways usually die younger the rest of the population. The gap is 10 years younger for same upbringing people in soem states. The gulag statements is wrong in entirety as it also claims all gulags were as bad as eachother. This is not true. Some gulags were attempts to re-educate, some were virtual death camps, and some were not. Under this the statement of neutral authorities is the huge number 4million died in gulags, political executions and other camps, most of which being inncocent peiople brought to theri during the famine. But to include them twice just so you can claim Hitler was a nice man, is wrong. Hitler was worse and that is that, Stalin caused 20million dead including the post war expulsions. Look at this fact Stalinj said he would kuill all people who surrendered to the nazis in World war two, A wise descion, But in the end loads who had surrendered survived theri stionts in the gulags. We may say well that was evil, but then we have to remember US killings on the Phillipines which killed a million. We have to remember the Japanese empire which killed 27million, in world war two, and remember the first world war which killed 17million. The popular claim that stalin killed more than hitler is nonsese. In truth he killed 20million via famine, and civil war , while hitler kiled 42million. On top of this Stalin ruled longer, and of those barely a million were massacres, for hitler the number is something like 12 million executed

With permission, I am linking your blog to mine. Simply unbelievably funny!

Rosie O'Donnel = Hitler beyond menopause. ===evil grin===

"You, sir, are worse than Hitler." -- Selma and patty's boss at the DMV on the Simpsons when she thought Homer smoked two cigarettes at once.

I think all this comparing people to Hitler crap is just stupid. No one can be like Hitler unless they can slaughter as many millions of people as he did. No one can be as bad, or anywhere near as bad as Hitler was. All you people who think anyone is as bad as Hitler needs to take some serious therapy. Hitler was no joke. Neither is this stupid bull.

Jake,

You are obviously worse than Hilter!