A Dangerous Place

According to Christopher Brauchli, Newt "Nuke" Gingrich is backing off his claim in his new book that the Demos are Nazis.

"In coming up with a comparison to Nazi Germany (that he has subsequently sought to soften) Mr. Gingrich may have been thinking of the new law in Arizona that permits the police when making a “lawful contact” with someone who gives them reasonable suspicion to believe the person is an alien, to determine, when practicable, the immigration status of the person. He may have thought that Arizona’s law bore a faint resemblance to Nazi Germany’s requirement that Jews wear yellow stars in public and may have forgotten that the Arizona law is a Republican creation that he should not criticize. The Arizona law is, of course, quite different from the Nazi law since the Arizona law places the burden of identifying the person on the police."

Brauchli works at Harvard University, that bastion of radical thought, where a mere 50K a year buys you an exclusive membership in the Big Boys' Club of America.

Someone should warn the famous list compiler, David Horowitz, about this latest example of how some academics speak too freely.

Give him a call, Newt. No wait, CB may already be on the list...

Read the full piece at CounterPunch.

TS