In today's news of the Pavlovian Reflex, conservatives call Holocaust sensible because Obama calls i

[underlankers]

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/339003/president-obama-commemorates-senseless-holocaust-eliana-johnsonThis is rather ghoulish, I admit, but the fundamental principle here, of literally opposing the most barbaric and evil things being called barbaric and evil just because President Obama says they're senseless and evil is actually quite

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[devil_ad_vocate]

Buchanan must have been reflecting on some of his own writings.

[dexeron]

JESUS. That whole: "Conservatives would defend Nazis if Obama said he was against them" was a JOKE. It was a hyperbolic exaggeration to highlight the extremism of modern conservative punditry. IT WASN'T A SUGGESTION.

American politics has actually reached the point of such knee-jerk reactionism that Obama stating: "Nazis were bad" actually makes Conservatives say: "Hmm, can we work an angle here where we can kind-of defend the Nazis?"

[underlankers]

Yep. That's about the size of it.

[underlankers]

I'm not even sure it's that. I think it's more basically indicating that because creating murder factories and concepts like the Hunger Plan and the other atrocities of the Nazis made sense to the Nazis, they could not be senseless. Which is about as dubious a logic as anything I've ever heard. This 'logic' could rehabilitate people like say, Andrea Yates or other serial killers who had delusions that in killing others they were doing the right thing.

Past a certain point, mass murder is always inexcusable. Millions of deaths are that point.

[johnny9fingers]

Ye Gods.

This is really amazing. And this is just simple confirmation of what some of us have been saying for a long time: which is that there are those folk on the right in America who simply cannot stand that a Black (or in this case a half-Black) chap can be POTUS.

Rather defend the Nazis than admit any thing Obama says can be true. Can these folk now officially be accepted as the busted flush they are?

I hope this goes viral world-wide. Folk need to see this. I am dumbstruck by the idiocy of this. This is the point where the National Review double-summersaults over the shark.

I fear that they will take this article down PDQ and am tempted to post it in full on my blog.

[underlankers]

Yep. It's quite stunning all right.

[rimpala]

There is going to be a storm coming.

On bullshit mountain.

[pastorlenny]

Jews really are a problem. Come to my family's Chanukah party some time if you don't think it's true.

[dwer]

that's ok, I'll just sit here and wait for a personal invitation... in the dark...

[underlankers]

Hey now, that's the kind of problem I don't mind at all. People who have fun? Everyone in the world should be so lucky. :P

[aviv_b]

Hee! Just wanted to get to use this icon one more time.

[dwer]

Poe's Law just sat up in its grave and said "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU???"

[underlankers]

I think their response would be 'Huh? Who's Poe?'.