Starting a Panic (David Corn & James Pinkerton)

[tom]

Twice in this thread you've compared simple free speech - a website created as part of a political campaign to combat smears from political opposition - to Nazism.

How is this comparison, even if made lightheartedly, something other than abject stupidity? What problem do you have, in principle, with the Obama campaign creating a website to combat what it considers to be false claims?

Is Rick Perry a Nazi (or 'analogous to' Nazis, or 'doing the same things' Nazis do, or practicing Nazi 'tactics', or any other reformulation that renders the point no less specious) when his campaign does the same thing?