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Why is Byron York silent about Limbaugh and Beck calling Obama a Nazi?

August 08, 2009 8:22 am ET by Eric Boehlert

It's interesting because during the Bush years, York was out front at the tsk-tsking National Review writing repeatedly about (somewhat obscure) liberals calling Bush a Nazi and likening him to Hitler. At the deeply offended National Review, the mere mention of Nazi references was appalling and beyond the pale and simply confirmed how nuts and irresponsible and unhinged and hateful liberals were.

And yet today it's pretty much crickets at National Review, and from York who's now at the right-wing Washington Examiner, despite the fact that both Beck and Limbaugh, perhaps the two highest-profile conservatives in America, jumped into the Nazi cesspool this week.

Two questions. Do double standards come any more pronounced? And is there any intellectual atrocity that Limbaugh and Beck commit that conservatives like York won't turn away from?

Oops, three questions: Does the conservative movement now cede the high and low ground to AM talk shows hosts?

I thought so.

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    • Author by wookie (August 08, 2009 9:00 am ET)
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      Of course. These are the same people who said that an anonymous video posted to moveon.org, not even from the group themselves, represented how all of THE LEFT thought Bush was Hitler. Then right wing pundits started calling Obama Hitler as soon as he got the nomination. "He's drawing large crowds of enthusiastic people! Just like Hitler!" York is much like Bozell and Hannity in pulling fake outrage out of their butts to feign moral superiority.
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    • Author by Indy (August 08, 2009 12:14 pm ET)
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      This may be a tad off subject but I recall an interview with Larry King Live and Dennis Miller several years ago. Miller explained what had brought about his change in political perspective. He said he kept hearing people, when he was in New York, comparing Bush with Hitler and he didn't think it was fair. I wonder how many crickets will churp in his camp also.
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    • Author by godlovesgwb (August 09, 2009 12:47 pm ET)
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      How come the left, and MMFA, not protest when the anti-war protestors were calling Bush Hitler? Why the double standard?
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      • Author by ForTheLoveOfEllipsis... (August 09, 2009 2:29 pm ET)
           
        No high-profile liberals were calling Shrub Hitler and you know it. Now STFU and go thump your Bahble for a few mours...
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