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Yesterday, we saw Rush Limbaugh disgrace himself with his remarks, that the IRS scandal can be compared to the holocaust, which saw 6 million Jews and, conservatively, an equal number of gypsies, homosexuals, Poles, Russians, French, and others, killed by the Nazis.

Some recent estimates put the total number of people murdered by the Nazis as high as 20 million.

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Nobody was killed by the IRS.

Glenn Beck chimed in, right on cue, with his claim that America is on its way to becoming a totalitarian state. Worse, he says, America will “dwarf what Germany did.”

Dwarf killing 20 million people. Really? We won’t even get into the annexation of Austria, Czechoslovakia, or the invasions of Poland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Holland, France, Russia, and so forth. George W. Bush invaded Iraq for no more reason than Hitler had to invade Poland. But so far, Barack Obama has invaded nobody.

And look, ma. No death camps.

If you’re wondering who we liberals will be killing in our imaginary (presumably FEMA-run) extermination camps – and with squads of soldiers knocking on doors and marching down the street picking people out to kill – Beck is comparing the Tea Party to the Jews.

Yes, according to Glenn Beck, Obama will have the Tea Party “shut down” and “rounded up.”

Watch courtesy of Right Wing Watch:

“If we don’t stop this right now,” he says, “we will be remembered as the most evil nation in the history of the world. We will dwarf what Germany did.”

Referring again to the IRS “scandal” Beck says, “This is the way totalitarian states are created.”

Really. Totalitarian states are created by forcing tax exempt organizations to stay out of politics? Really? Is that where Hitler and Stalin got their starts?

It is hard to know where to begin when you hear things like this.

Sarah Palin’s “blood libel” fiasco apparently taught Republicans nothing. The memory of the holocaust should not be bandied about in so cavalier a fashion.

“You wanna shut down the Tea Party?” Beck asks. “They can do it over night.” Of course, he’d do ominous better if he’d take of that silly hat.

“You wanna scoop up everybody who was ever been a part of the Tea Party, ever visited any website…who ever had any connections at all to anything, all they have to do is put the connections in, hit ‘print’ and round them up.”

Which, of course, takes us right to six million dead Jews: “There wouldn’t be a Jew left alive on the planet today if Hitler had this technology. Not one.”

Again the hat…oh the hat. But I digress.

Yes there would be Jews alive, Glenn. Hitler would have had to defeat the United States and Great Britain, as well as the Soviet Union and other countries, to kill all the Jews on the planet. The rest of the world didn’t show much love for Jews but they also weren’t rounding them all up and killing them, with the exception of Stalin, who loved killing his own people. But Jews even fought in the Soviet armed forces.

Or does Hitler’s magic button make people drop dead wherever they are?

Beck has another problem: getting us to believe there are 20 million Tea Partiers available to be rounded up and executed.

But bombast has no limits. Nor do martyr fantasies. Nor, apparently, does Glenn Beck’s idiocy.