Teabaggers Diminish the Holocaust's Importance

On Monday, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann gave the daily Worst Person in the World award to the backers of the Jacksonville Landing Tea Party in Florida. Why? Their casual use of Nazi comparisons with Barack Obama.

Here's what Olbermann said:

But our winners, the backers of the tea party of Jacksonville Landing, in Florida last Thursday, including Duval County Republican Chairman Lenny Curry and Florida State Republican Reps Lake Ray, Charles McBernie and Mike Weinstein, plus state Senator Steven Weiss, who condoned, sponsored, paid for this:

President Obama as a Hitlerian Storm Trooper. By the way, the event, this is straight from the email sent out pushing it, quote, paid by Republican Party of Duval County.

Obama with a Hitler moustache, hair cut and Swastika, and, of course, some mush head equating the rather slow-moving voter registration outfit Acorn to SS, the Hitler SS. “Same Thang” it says there. The SS, the Schutzstaffel, the people chosen to pull Jews and members of other groups, ranging from the communists to the socialists to the clergy to the rotary club, out of German society, then intern them, then torture them, then murder them; they‘re like Acorn.

Remember when Janeane Garofalo came on here and called the tea baggers racists and the right wing said, you owe us an apology? You know what, they were right. I would like to apologize for Janeane comparing these Jacksonville tea party guys to racists. I‘d like to apologize to racists. Duval County Florida Republican Chairman Lenny Curry and the other people making abject fools out of the themselves, and insulting every real victim of real Nazis in history, today‘s worst persons in the world.