Why the Shock Over Newt Gingrichs Nazi-Muslim Comparison?
Ol’ Newt did the president a favor when he came out and said “Nazis don’t have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust museum in Washington… We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor.” Just a short while before that, all the talking heads had been up in arms over Obama’s supposed vacillating over the so-called Ground Zero Mosque. Never mind that it’s entirely possible to argue that the Cordoba Initiative has every right to put up its planned mosque/community center in a refurbished Burlington Coat Factory a couple of blocks from Ground Zero, while at the same time being unsure of the wisdom of doing so. Nuance is, of course, anathema to the pundit class. But suddenly, what Obama thinks of the mosque has been overshadowed by what Newt Gingrich thinks of the mosque. The mushy middle, boring stance taken by Obama wholly supplanted by the swirly-eyed crazy of Gingrich’s comparison of any and all Muslims to the jack-booted Pure Evil that killed mil
