Benyamin Korn: McGinness deserves rebuke for Nazi analogy

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Benyamin Korn, who speaks with unquestioned authority on such matters, finds Joe McGinness' playing of the Nazi card on NBC's "Today" show Tuesday morning appalling:

McGinniss’ foolish analogy cheapens the meaning and memory of the Holocaust.

Jewish defense organizations, such as the Anti-Defamation League and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, would do well to rebuke McGinniss, unless they think he is beneath their purview.

But really, because McGinniss’ comparison of Germany in those dark times to the America of today is so outrageous and appalling, he should be repudiated by all thinking people of good will.

And because McGinniss’ comparison demeans a political leader and a popular movement whose character are overwhelmingly peaceful, democratic and tolerant of all races and religions, all Americans should reject him, and hang on him a letter of shame.

Gov. Sarah Palin, the Tea Party movement, and the awakening voters of America, will not long remember this unprincipled opportunist who calls himself a journalist. But the American people, McGinniss’ publisher, and most of all the Jewish community, should be disgusted that he has so cheapened the public discourse.

Read Benyamin Korn's full commentary here.

h/t: Doug Brady at C4P

- JP