They finally did it. The media piled on so many mentions of “Hitler Youth” into their “objective” news stories at such an obscene rate that they actually broke our expensive machinery and sent shards of little Hitler pieces all over the blog. Eck.
When we first put together the Hitler Youth-o-Meter out of fly paper, cardboard, plutonium and peanut butter we maxed it out at 600 mentions of “Hitler Youth” thinking there couldn’t possibly be more mentions of it in stories about Pope Benedict’s visit. After one day we quickly had to reconstruct it to fit 1,500 and then again we stretched it out to measure 2,000. Never in our wildest dreams did we believe it would go past that.
But thanks to the bumbling Vatican Press office and an anti-papacy press, the mentions of “Hitler Youth” are now exceeding 2,700. I must say that the media has surprised even me with how shameless they are in attempting to attack Pope Benedict XVI.
Congratulations to the press for finding a new low just when we thought it was impossible. And they wonder why they’re going out of business.
Now who’s going to clean up this mess?
May 15, 2009 at 3:17 am
Now who’s going to clean up this mess? Get a Swiffer. They rock.
May 15, 2009 at 9:09 am
Is this a corollary to Godwin’s Law? That the longer the media discusses the Pope, the more likely an HJ reference will come up? Do we call it Archibald’s Corollary to Godwin’s Law?
And then there’s the Cornwell Phenomenon were in no reference to Pius XII can be made without mentioning his “connections” to the Nazis, failure to “speak out,” and general disregard of the actual historical record.
I hope I’m never Pope, as the constant references to my membership in the Young Octobrists, Yuri Gagarin Fan Club, and Torgprom would make me sick with regret …
[BTW — Love the graphic!]
May 15, 2009 at 11:59 am
” fly paper, cardboard, plutonium and peanut butter” – What a combo! At least THAT’s funny.
May 15, 2009 at 2:32 pm
It’s so ridiculous that I even canceled my syndication of an ostensibly “conservative” blog who tried harping on this silly little trope.
May 15, 2009 at 4:53 pm
So Papa was forced into the Hitler Youth; I suppose they didn’t say it that way. Do they ever say anything about clintons hero, Sanger, being Hitlers pen-pal?