So, I guess it was only a matter of time before Godwin’s law was invoked off the ‘net. Finally, it happened, and – big surprise – it tooks politics for it to be invoked in real life.
RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) — The Republican candidate for Virginia governor is drawing fire for campaign ads that suggest his Democratic opponent is so averse to the death penalty he would have spared Adolph Hitler from execution.
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A commercial featuring death penalty proponent Stanley Rosenbluth has him looking into the camera and saying: “Tim Kaine says Adolf Hitler doesn’t qualify for the death penalty. This was one of the worst mass murderers in modern times.”
Some Jewish leaders said Friday that the commercials trivialize the Holocaust and should be withdrawn.
I get the impression that come November, we’ll see that the other side has automatically won the argument. 🙂
Godwin’s Law has a tendency of being invoked in documentaries, such as Fahrenhype 9/11 and Celsius 41.11.
I’m just rattling this off from the Rhetoric paper I had to write last week.
Anyway, comparing things to the Nazis = instant loss