I’m sure you’re relieved to hear that Glen Urquhart didn’t mean to call liberals Nazis:
“It was an April mistake,” he said Thursday. “In that segment, it was not as skillfully worded as I would like to have been. I’m a little more experienced campaigner today than I was in April.”
What he was trying to say — albeit unskillfully — was that people must be careful about their words.
“Let’s all be careful about what phrases we use without thinking them through,” he said. “The Nazis used the same separation-of-church-and-state rhetoric for a very, very bad purpose. I didn’t mean to suggest — and I am not suggesting — that people who are liberals are Nazis.”
It’s o.k. Glen, I forgive you. After all, I didn’t mean to say you had an unhealthy sexual obsession with farmyard animals. It was just a June mistake. I said that this morning but I’ve matured since then.
Here’s the kicker. Glen Urquhart says he doesn’t use casual “things I don’t like are Hitler” comparisons, he really means it:
But Urquhart said that issue has personal significance to him.
“My great-grandfather was a Jew who fled Jewish persecution,” Urquhart said. “My grandfather was Jewish — lived and died as a Jew. I understand this in a visceral way.”
You meant every word of your B.S. Nazi comparison, Glen. You’re just sorry other people found out you said it.