Rights group slams Limbaugh for 'outrageous' Hitler-Obama analogy

The Jewish Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is hopping mad at hardline Republican radio host Rush Limbaugh for his "outrageous and inappropriate" analogy comparing President Barack Obama to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

"Regardless of the political differences and the substantive differences in the debate over health care, the use of Nazi symbolism is outrageous, offensive and inappropriate," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director and a Holocaust survivor, in an media advisory released Friday morning. "Americans should be able to disagree on the issues without coloring it with Nazi imagery and comparisons to Hitler. This is not where the debate should be at all."

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ADL's Foxman added: "Comparisons to the Nazis are deeply offensive and only serve to diminish and trivialize the extent of the Nazi regime's crimes against humanity and the murder of six million Jews and millions of others in the Holocaust. I don't see any comparison here. It's off-center, off-issue and completely inappropriate."

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The National Jewish Democratic Council, reacting to the Nazi hyperbole, called upon the sole Jewish Republican in the House of Representatives to repudiate Limbaugh's comments. The push was directed at House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA), who said recently that the Republican party needed more "Limbaughs."

"Mr. Cantor, after Rush's Web site antics today and comments yesterday, do you really still think you 'need' Limbaugh?" the NJDC questioned, according to Huffington Post reporter Sam Stein.

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the healthcare town hall protestors who shout down everyone else and shut down debates, the term "brownshirts", or Sturmabteilung, is eminently suitable.