Word: hitleritis
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Sitting in his office near Hayden Lake, Idaho, the leader of the Aryan Nations has the grim demeanor of a man under siege. Richard Butler growls that "Jews run the government" and that "Jewish conspirators" are intent on destroying him. A portrait of Butler's hero, Adolf Hitler, hangs on the wall, and white-robed figurines of Ku Klux Klansmen decorate a shelf. He fiddles with a booklet of Nazi war art and clicks his teeth as he talks. At 82, he has failed in his goal of founding a whites-only homeland, and now he faces the prospect...
...later years, when his genius had pried him from anonymity, Guinness played all manner of historical celebrities, from Marcus Aurelius to Pope Innocent III, Hitler to Freud. By then, his eminence had become a cloak that he wore with cool majesty. It was like his "mischievous dolphin smile that spreads and flits away" (John le Carre's words). That smile was tight, wary and tinged with a seer's sadness; it invited affection but repelled intimacy. Emerging from a Guinness film, spectators wondered, "Who was that unmasked...
...wrote, "I got to like him--a grave simple child...playing with the most expensive toys." Others found little to like or admire about the man. But Nasaw tells his story with such nuance and understanding that the reader never fully loses sympathy, even when the Chief was paying Hitler and Mussolini to write for his papers, and Hearst and his columnists were smearing innocent people...
...remarkable record, why are so few of Venter's fellow scientists trumpeting his success? Or talking him up for a Nobel Prize? Why, in fact, is this cherubic-looking, blue-eyed ex-surfer hated by so many colleagues, who have called him everything from a greedy megalomaniac to a Hitler? Forget about easy explanations, such as his outsize ego (yes, one of the samples he is analyzing is rumored to contain his own DNA) or his penchant for doing science by press release (yes, he keeps his door open to reporters) or his tendency to do not science...
...what they want, but the public has to be free from unchecked, destructive rhetoric. To continually give radical gays the freeway to force their view of life on the general population and then want to silence talk radio is hypocrisy, intolerance and hatred of a magnitude that only Hitler would understand...