patriotism is the last - er second last, no wait - third last refuge of the scound

[anthonybaxter]

Johnson needs an update.

Let's play pretend that you're a right-wing douchebag trying to beat up the whole fake "War on Christmas" crap as a fundraiser and general excuse to get your loathsome smug face on the TV alot. And let's say you're paired up against someone, say, like Air America's Sam Seder, who's both funnier and more informed than you are. As you'd expect, you get kicked around pretty viciously. What's a douchebag to do?

Do you break out the patriotism? Eh, not so much these days. It seems so last century. Normally, you'd break out the terrorism/911/islamist crap, but there's a way to take it to the next level. Witness:

PHILLIPS: Bob, I'm going to let you have the final thought.

KNIGHT: OK. You know, when the Nazis moved into Austria in 1936...

That's right. In a discussion of the bogus "War on Christmas", the douchebag raised the FUCKING NAZIS. Against a Jewish debater. Nicely done. It wasn't an off-the-cuff comment, either, he continued on for some time. Wow.


Crooks and Liars has the video, and Atrios provides highlights (if that is the word) from the full transcript.

Comments

Correction to Johnson

[akuchling.livejournal.com]

From Ambrose Bierce's "Devil's Dictionary":

PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.

I love Bierce!

Re: Correction to Johnson

[anthonybaxter.livejournal.com]

Surely '9/11' is the first resort of a scoundrel.

[laptop006.livejournal.com]

Does Godwin's law work on TV?

(It doesn't on Fox News, but that's the Republican porn channel)

[sgtbiffo.livejournal.com]

I think you have confised patriotism with nationalism.

I'll have to kick you in the balls next time I see you for lumping me in with this trash.