Limbaugh Yells ‘Nazi’ (And the Press Yawns)

Commentary
by Eric Boehlert

The Houston Chronicle editorial page wanted to be absolutely clear: References to Adolf Hitler or Nazis in American politics had no place in the “discourse of the nation,” and the crude analogies were “beyond the pale.” The practice was “absurd and dangerous.”

The editorial page was disgusted by the rhetoric and firmly believed that dredging up the Nazi comparisons desensitized people to the pain and violence that actual Nazis unleashed in…