NewsBusters’ Alex Fitzsimmons devises a new way to invoke Godwin’s law: declare there’s a Nazi link to a common phrase.
In a May 26 post, Fitzsimmons declares that an NBC correspondent’s description of the disputed Arizona immigration law, SB 1070, as the “show us your papers law” is “Nazi terminology.” He doesn’t explain why this is so.
Fitzsimmons didn’t mention that since the law does, in one provision that has since been suspended, require that legal immigrants carry their citizenship papers at all times, calling it the “show us your papers law” is an entirely accurate description.