We deliberately implied that Rove’s role is better described as “minister of propaganda” and propaganda is simply a mildly pejorative term for what he does.

Dr. Joseph Goebbels, who publicly wore the title for Hitler’s Nazi Germany, is unquestionably the most well known individual propagandist in history. The comparison is with the methods and the political role, and has nothing to do with the material that is propagated. Besides, if you get your wish and “they” come and get us, won’t that be proving an ideological connection?

Listen to yourself! You said, in effect, “I hope he is a Nazi.”