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[bryant]

The RNC wants MoveOn to apologize for letting an ad comparing Bush to Hitler slip into their contest.

Enh. I don’t particularly think MoveOn needs to apologize; they can if they want to, and people can form whatever opinion they care to form as a result of that decision. The only person who has the right to ask for an apology here is Bush. Last time I heard, he was a big boy, and surely doesn’t need us to act on his behalf. After all, cowboys do their own work.

I also don’t think that the RNC needs to do any kind of equal opportunity witchhunt. They can focus on liberals who compare conservatives to Hitler, and the DNC can focus on conservatives who compare liberals to Hitler. That’s fair enough.

However, the irony of this cartoon in conjunction with this op ed is pretty great.

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[bryant]

That's probably not the irony I was thinking of. Day by Day is generally a fairly weak attempt to be the Republican Doonesbury. The breakdown of the strip I linked to:

Bright young conservative mentions (non-existent) ad comparing Dean to Hitler.

Angry young liberal gets all upset, then realizes she's been trapped, as BYC says "Yeah, that was actually an ad comparing Bush to Hitler."

AYL says "Well, it's just politics."

BYC says wisely, "Yes, that's what they said in Nazi Germany."

The irony is that Chris Muir's strip assumes that Republicans are pure and would never compare their opponents to Nazis. The bonus irony is that he manages to undermine himself in his own strip, never mind the NY Post op ed. I actually didn't notice the bonus irony first time around.

bonus irony

[totient]

see, it's the bonus irony that makes Doonesbury what it is. Skewer both sides, perhaps at different subtlety levels. And it's why I thought that strip was so great. Whereas the New York Post op ed, typically for the Post, didn't have anything more ironic than an Alanis Morrissette song.