A NEW AWARD?

I may have to leave a memo to Andrew for his return proposing a new award for dumb Nazi analogies (dumb Hitler analogies would be eligible). 2003 ended with a great example, but let’s start the New Year with a clean slate.

If such an award existed, 2004’s inaugural winner would have to be Dr. Laura Schlessinger, as the New York Post explains:

A Holocaust Studies institute is asking radio talk-show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger to retract her on-air comments yesterday comparing some U.S. day-care centers to child-rearing practices in Nazi Germany.
The pop psychologist, whose syndicated show is broadcast on more than 200 stations, read a letter from a listener who criticized the lack of attention given to children in some American “child development centers” and other day-care facilities.

Schlessinger said, “It sounds like something out of Nazi Germany.”

UPDATE: Thanks to the many e-mails suggesting that the appropriate moniker would be the Godwin Award (posted by Daniel Drezner).