There is some brouhaha about a gun companies advertisement that places President Obama on the same plane as Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler.

USAAmmo states that “tyranny is knocking down the doors of American cities daily” and that Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and other gun control advocates “are secretly conspiring American Citizens of the right to bear arms.”

Trace Williams, director of operations for USAAmmo, defended the ad that was emailed Monday. He told CBS Washington that “Obama and his various czars are infringing on the rights of Americans to own guns.”

“He’s anti-gun and he’s obviously a socialist cramming health care down American’s throats,” Williams said. “That is exactly how those people in that ad rose to power.”

I found a link to the ad on Drudge Report. I can only guess the ad is newsworthy because they dared to compare Obama to some of histories worst dictators.

I guess CBS news thinks I should find the correlation to be over the top.

However, I think if it’s good for the goose, it’s good for the gander.

Just yesterday, I found a link at RealClearPolitics that read, “Tea Partiers Are Similar to the KKK.” It was written at the left leaning webrag, The Nation.

When I clicked the link, the first thing I noticed is the headline was different. It now read, “The Tea Party’s Distant Cousin.” Maybe the editors at RealClearPolitics changed the headline.  Maybe the editors at the Nation did.  It doesn’t matter. The gist of the article was the same.

There are similarities between the Tea Party and the Ku Klux Klan:

…while the Tea Party isn’t an anti-black terrorist group, it’s hard to deny the extent to which the movement is motivated by the same constellation of reactionary forces.

The facts bear this out. According to a recent survey from the Public Religion Research Institute, 47 percent of Americans who identify with the Tea Party movement also identify with the religious right, and 75 percent of those who identify with the Tea Party label themselves Christian conservatives. Tea Partiers are overwhelmingly white, more likely to see immigration as a problem, and more likely to harbor racial resentment toward African-Americans. Put another way, it’s no accident that birtherism found a home among Tea Partiers. And of course, Tea Party rhetoric tends toward to loud proclamations of “real” patriotism, and a desire to return to the foundations of American political life.

The Tea Party is a classic reactionary movement in the American tradition, and as a result, it shares similarities with the Ku Klux Klan.

The Tea Party is a classic reactionary movement in the American tradition, and as a result, it shares similarities with the Ku Klux Klan.

If it is acceptable to compare a grassroots movement that fights for less government tyranny on everyone, regardless of race or creed, to a violent, racist domestic terrorist organization founded by Democrats, because this author finds it “hard to deny the extent to which the movement is motivated by the same constellation of reactionary forces,” then there’s nothing really over the top about USAAmmo’s ad.

The similarities between Obama’s rise to power and Hitler’s have been noted ad nauseum, as have the similarities between the pair’s political leanings.  And taking from The Nation’s article, we don’t need to have facts to make an assertion.  We just need to say it’s “more likely.”  It’s more likely that someone who shares so many political beliefs with those who have imposed strict gun control laws throughout history would do the same today.

Turnabout is fair play.

If the left finds it acceptable to compare the Tea Party to the Klan, they can take their outrage over comparisons of Obama to Hitler, turn it sideways, and store it in a very uncomfortable place.