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October 15, 2005
Godwin's Law Comes to Virginia
The recent stupidity shown by the Kilgore campaign in airing an ad that tries to equate Tim Kaine with Adolf Hitler reminds of the South Park episode where Cartman comes to school dressed like Hitler. The teachers pull him out of class, and show him a video that ends with a giant bear saying these words to live by: "Remember Kids! Dressing up like Hitler in school is not cool!" A lesson so blatantly obvious - leave Hitler out of it - how could Kilgore's staff have missed this?
Furthermore, debuting this ad an hour before Kol Nidre and Yom Kippur began allowed it to run for a full 24 hours without hearing outrage - very clever, but it doubles the pushback from the Jewish community. The ad would've been incredibly effective and put Kaine on the defense if they'd followed the simple advice of the bear! Instead, they overdid it and once again find themselves on the defense!
But nonetheless - shame on you Jerry Kilgore. Jewish culture teaches that life is sacred - he who saves one life saves the world entire. This is why so many Jews are ardently anti death-penalty. To try to pervert the history of the Holocaust for political gain is reprehensible. 6 million people did not die so that you could run an attack ad.
Posted by MikeSager at October 15, 2005 12:38 PM
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