Rick Santorum meet Mr. Mike Godwin
I had written about this odious little toad before
here,
here,
here,
here,
here,
here,
here and
here regarding the legislation he is proposing which cuts back the Government's weather information (he is in the pocket of a commercial weather info provider).
It seems he has a problem with Democrats and likes to compare them to Adolph Hitler. He has since retracted his statement and little can be found from
Main Stream Media reporting the original event (self-censoring are we?). Here is
Yahoo/Reuters with the retraction:
Senator Santorum calls Hitler quip 'mistake'
A Republican senator who likened Democrats to Adolf Hitler during a heated debate over the future of U.S. judicial nominees on Friday said such language was a "mistake."
Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania released a statement saying that "Referencing Hitler was meant to dramatize the principle of an argument, not to characterize my Democratic colleagues."
"It was a mistake and I meant no offense," added Santorum, who holds a key spot in the Republican leadership.
And who you ask is Mike Godwin?
Allow me to introduce you to
Godwin's Law:
Godwin's law (also Godwin's rule of Nazi analogies) is an adage in Internet culture that was originated by Mike Godwin in 1990. The law states that:
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
Example of use
For example, imagine two people were arguing over which computer operating system was better, Windows or Macintosh. The Windows proponent might argue that there are more games available on Windows, while the Mac advocate might argue the Mac OS is more reliable, and crashes less. The Windows proponent might counter by arguing that Windows does not actually crash more, and that such a notion is just a stereotype. Frustrated, the Mac proponent might retort "Yeah, well Windows is made by Bill Gates, and he's a power-mad tyrant just like Hitler. I would never use his operating system." Under Godwin's law, the Mac advocate would have just lost the argument.
Posted by DaveH at May 20, 2005 9:32 PM