Globe and Mail Does Hatchet Job on Geert Wilders

Replete with Dracula photo and scary, scary terms like "arch-conservative" (are there ever any "arch" or "radical" liberals?).

Then the writer takes the laziest, most idiotic approach to Mr. Wilders: reducto ad Hitlerum.

"I wonder whether he's really read Mein Kampf. Perhaps we've forgotten, perhaps he doesn't realize it himself, but his words and the message of Fitna are exactly – to specific phrases, to the tone of louche brotherliness – what was said about the Jews."

You get it? Geert, he's Hitler, and the Muslims-they are the new Jews! HITLER HITLER HITLER!!

Then there is some tripe about Jews as he tries to make the comparison complete, and then the qualifier: "This is not to say Geert Wilders is a Hitler or his followers are all racists. BUT we shouldn't pretend that his core ideas are in any way reasonable, rational, freedom-loving or tolerant."

This is probably one of the most intellectually lazy articles I have read in the Globe this week!