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Cross posted at above link RE Ezra Klein

Ezra Klein : Blogger for the Washington Post, columnist for Newsweek, contributor to MSNBC. He is in his late 20's

from Newsbusters, The Washington Post Hires Ultraliberal Blogger Ezra Klein (4/2009)

..Ezra's welcome into the Washington Post is especially distressing given the countless acts of stupidity and vulgarity he has managed to commit in his short time as a prominent blogger

Take, for example, his affinity for the ideas of the National Socialists:

Nazi Ideas

I'm with Jane Galt on this one: Not everything the Nazis touched was bad. Hitler was a vegetarian. Volkswagen is a perfectly good car company. Universal health care is a perfectly good idea. Indeed, the Nazis actually did a pretty good job increasing economic growth and improving standards of living (they were, many think, the first Keynesians, adopting the strategy even before Keynes had come up with it), pushing Germany out of a depression and back into expansion.

Yea... never mind that much of the Nazi's economic expansion was due to their massive war build up set off by a megalomaniacal ambition to conquer the world. But, hey, at least Ezra finds a sentence to harshly condemn the Nazi's for their horrifying atrocities:

Unfortunately, they also set out to conquer Europe and exterminate the Jews. People shouldn't do that.

Ezra's correct, people shouldn't do that just like they shouldn't marginalize the deaths of millions in order to try, and fail, to make political points