Sometimes a group becomes so unhinged that you're not sure whether to laugh or cry.
For example, a blogger at the conservative The National Review decided to compare Sen. Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler.
Many other elements of the far right (like this guy) have compared Obama to Hitler's appeaser, British prime minister Neville Chamberlain.
Hysterical and historically inaccurate invocations of Chamberlain are the militarists' fallback position when they don't have a real argument to make, which is, of course, most of the time.
But you have to be amused (or frightened) at the intellectual dexterity of a group that can compare someone to both Hitler and Chamberlain without the slightest hint of irony.
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