ABSTRACT
As an increasingly skeptical society, we have taken to calling these competing narratives “spin,” and clearly political spin doctoring is often at work. The tendency toward hyperbolic historical analogizing has become a joke of sorts. Members of Internet forums and newsgroups often speak of Godwin’s Law, named after Internet pioneer Mike Godwin, which states, “As an on-line discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”1 Apoplectic analogies flourish.
