TOO EXTREME EVEN FOR FOX NEWS from CREDO

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In his new book, FOX News contributor Newt Gingrich compared President Obama's administration to Nazi Germany saying his "secular-socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did."
This comparison is not only utterly offensive but also completely unacceptable within the context of "news."
FOX News must condemn Gingrich's statement and stop giving him a paid platform for promoting this view.
The American Jewish Committee has condemned the statement saying, "By invoking the current Administration in the same breath as two murderous totalitarian states, Newt Gingrich has drawn a foolish and dangerous analogy. Gingrich's linkage not only diminishes the horror of the Holocaust, it also licenses the use of extremist language in contemporary America."
FOX News' own Chris Wallace called the Nazi comparison "wildly over the top." And yet Gingrich's employers at FOX News continue to give him a platform for promoting these views. In an appearance on FOX's "On the Record" Gingrich defended his Nazi comparison, saying he made a "reasoned and compelling argument."
Even for FOX this goes too far. If Newt Gingrich wants to peddle his hate speech, he has a right to do it on the tea party circuit or in extremist rightwing propaganda publications. But it is far beyond acceptable for a national news outlet, even one as conservative as FOX News, to give him a paid platform for promoting a view that "diminishes the horror of Holocaust."
Tell FOX News: Condemn Gingrich's Nazi comparison statement and end his employment as a paid news commentator.