If Spicer showed disrespect to the Jewish community and it needed defending, then Pelosi also failed to defend others and thereby showed them equal disrespect. Should we now expect the “gypsy lobby” to cry out that Pelosi only cared about the Jewish deaths in WWII and not the gypsy deaths or perhaps the Poles can complain that she failed to mention the millions of Polish citizens slaughtered during Hitler’s evil quest for world domination? Finally, why did Pelosi not condemn the comments in defense of the Russian people who lost more lives in the war than any other nation? Or perhaps the Japanese civilians whose lives were lost when a former US President (a Democrat at that) ordered their annihilation in Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
While Truman’s decision is easy to defend and Hitler and Assad easy to condem, outrage for outrage’s sake really becomes silly when it is not sincere. Had Spicer defended Hitler, some outrage would be due. While it may be unwise to compare the actions of evildoers relative to one another, it certainly should not give rise to the leader Congress to react so vehemently. The same goes for all those, Jewish or not, who jumped on the bandwagon. It is not lost on anyone that many of these same people or at least those from their side, are often caught using the Hitler reference toward modern day political leaders like our President – and their left leaning friends always struggle to condemn that kind of speech. That is where outrage should like, but it takes a philosophical compass for real outrage and Nancy Pelosi can only feign it, because she has no compass.