Believe it or not, there are two cases from our Dept. of Inappropriate Hitler references this week.
The first is from the Yes on Proposition 8 rally earlier on Tuesday.
At that rally, a man identified by Calitics as Brad Dacus, the president of the Pacific Justice Institute, compared the fight against gay marriage to the fight against Hitler.
"There was another time in history when people, when the bell tolled. And the question was whether or not they were going to hear it. The time was during Nazi Germany with Adolf Hitler," Dacus proclaimed.
Then, after a long interlude, he concluded, "Let us not make that mistake, folks. Let us hear the bell! Vote on Proposition 8!"
The crowd exploded in cheers.
The No on 8 campaign has posted the minute-long video. Watch it below:
The second Hitler reference was in an e-mail blast sent out by the Monterey County Republican Party comparing Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler.
The e-mail went out on Monday, according to the Monterey Herald, with the local party political director, Brandon Gesicki, since calling the e-mail "terrible." (Hat tip again to Calitics.)
Form the Herald:
Gesicki said the letter, an anti-Obama screed making the rounds in the right-wing blogosphere, was picked off the Web by an intern in the local party office who posted it to the county party's e-mail subscribers.
He said the local party office will adopt new procedures to ensure that e-mails from Monterey County Republicans are sent only by Executive Director Katherine Dolbec.Dolbec characterized the letter, which was attributed to "Michael Master" of McLean, Va., as an opinion piece that "might incite conversation."
The county GOP later condemned the "inflammatory language" of the letter.
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