It's the perfect Slate headline: it's contrary, it's incindeary, and it even ends with a question mark. Also, it's brutally stupid:

Because he hasn't built gas chambers or tried to exterminate an entire race.

If we were teaching class, we would now say: good question though, let's move on.

Since we're not teaching class, we can point out that "Hitler wore pants, Bush wears pants, so Bush is Hitler" is a very, very dumb argument. Substituting "took away civil rights" for "wore pants" doesn't make the argument any better, incidentally.

It's good to see who the left is willing to call Hitler-esque though. Last week a CFR lackey published an editorial in the LA Times insisting that Ahmadinejad is not comparable to Hitler. This week Slate puts out an article saying that Bush is comparable to Hitler.

These people really have just totally lost it.

Previously: It's Amazing How Speaking and Thinking Like an Anti-Semite Makes You Into an Anti-Semite, Jews Now Being Blamed by Media for Harassing Nonexistent, Modern-Day Joseph and Mary, Palestinian Government Publishes Holocaust Denial On Web As Part Of ''We?re Not Even Trying To Hide It Any More'' Campaign (Also: The Rhetoric of Anti-Semitism - Introduction)