New revelations of child molestation by Catholic priests, and the Pope's indifference, have his critics and defenders locked in a holy war of words. Some anticipate his downfall. Others see a secularist smear campaign. Here's your guide to the controversy.

Danish-Norwegian artist Nina Maria Kleivan dresses her baby up as the worst dictators of the 20th century because—after all—"Even my daughter could end up ruling Denmark with an iron fist." That baby probably has a better-than-average chance, yes.

Want to host the Olympics? So did HITLER. Issuing a statement critical of an insurance industry-funded report on how regulating the health insurance industry would be bad? That is what GOEBBELS did. Welcome to Erick Erickson's brain!

You know who was a good leader, according to Forbes "Leadership" columnist Sangeeth Varghese? Hitler. Showed a lot of gumption in WW1. And civil improvement? He was big on civil improvement. Of course, he had his drawbacks.

BBC News reports today on AIDS charities coming out in full force against the AIDS-As-Hitler ad being put forth by German awareness group Regenbogen e.V. now that condemnation is coming in internationally. What's with all the insensitive FAIL-worthy advertisements?

Earlier tonight Glenn Beck dropped in on the O'Reilly Factor for his regular Tuesday fat-chewing session with Bill-O, where he defended himself against the totally ridiculous allegations that he's intentionally stoking the irrational fears of village idiots across the land.

In the event you or someone you know happens to be one of the jaded naysayers who still doesn't believe that Barack Obama is actually Adolf Hitler, this website should dispel any lingering doubts. [ObamaIsLiterallyHitler]

Roseanne asked to be dressed like Hitler in a photo spread for hipster Jewish mag Heeb. Roseanne believes she's the reincarnated soul of the genocidal dictator. Heeb asks: is Roseanne "the last celebrity utterly incapable of giving a fuck"?

Downside of condoms: feeling. Upside of condoms: they prevent the Holocaust.

Why won't ShopRite make Adolf Hitler a birthday cake? [LHL]

No, it wasn't Andrew Sullivan or Michael Wolff who said it: Nobel literature prize winner Jean-Marie Gustave just said in his Nobel lecture to the Swedish Academy, "if the Internet had existed at the time, perhaps Hitler's criminal plot would not have succeeded - ridicule might have prevented it from ever seeing the light of day." What a surprising show of faith in blogs (the ridicule specialists of "the internet") from the uber-elite! We remember when bloggers were the drunken, discretion-less, pajama-clad degenerates of the media world. Now they're saving the world, retroactively! Of course this is hopelessly naive.

Die Power Der Veto. We assumed a headline reading, "Hitler planned 'Big Brother' style television to broadcast Nazi propaganda," meant that the Nazi dictator was the John de Mol of his time. Turns out they were just talking about boring, old Orwell-style Big Brotherism: projections of the dictator speaking in public squares. It would have so much more fascinating to think Hitler was way ahead of the reality TV curve, with a plan to put a dozen Aryan out-of-work bartenders inside a house rigged by Leni Riefenstahl with hundreds of cameras, and broadcasting the ensuing bickering and hottübben shenanigans for an enraptured German population. [Summer's Assholes 10 photo-illustration courtesy of Glark.] [Daily Mail]

Well there goes the semiotic neighborhood. Rachel Matthews, a "celebrity knitter," has kicked up quite a kerfuffle in the UK for writing a book on how to knit historical tyrants. She's got Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein and—because to leave him out would have been unthinkable—Adolf Hitler. The ever excitable Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League pulled this sheaf of prefab outrage right off the roll: "To popularize a soft, knit version of Hitler insults the memory of those who died in the Holocaust, the survivors, and those who fought against the Nazis." Not to mention what it does to the image of a pastime beloved by harmless bubbes everywhere. Is it just me or does the Knitler (thank you, I'm here all week) look a little big-hipped and sassy in a "talk to the sieg hail, girlfriend" sorta way? After the jump, knitters united respond:

Are you sooo super jazzed to see Mamma Mia!, that Meryl Streep movie musical based on the Broadway show which is built, in ramshackle fashion, around a raft of ABBA songs? If you are you just might be a gay person. And we love you for it! But you know who wouldn't love you for it? Hitler. And you know who has ties to his Nazi party? Beebop band ABBA's own Frida Lyngstad. Time and circumstance came to reveal that she is the daughter of a Nazi officer who, along with many others, was spreading his seed around Norway in the hopes of creating a master race. Like this was an actual eugenics plan commissioned by Berlin. A new documentary on The Jewish Channel chronicles the story, a preview for which (via Radosh) is after the jump.

Radar's "Harvey Weinstein judges your worst possible movie pitch" feature is actually pretty funny! But guys, this thing looks suspiciously like that notoriously terrible thing. [Radar]

Marketwatch media critic Jon Friedman's MEDIA WEB QUESTION OF THE DAY: "Who is your favorite writer on the Internet?" Ours is MarketWatch media critic Jon Friedman! Today he wants to introduce you to 61-year-old Ron Rosenbaum, who, writing at Washington Post-owned internet magazine of conventional wisdom plus occasional contrarianism Slate, "represent[s] a turning point in the evolution of online journalism." Finally, these new-fangled internet websites are hiring ultra-established, book-writin' old white dudes.

Halloween (we're in week two — can it please be over?) is still in the Post's reliably Post-y headlines — yesterday's cover story, about a Brooklyn teen named Walter Petryk who was dumb enough to show up dressed as Hitler at Leon H. Goldstein HS (blackface at Martin Luther King Jr. HS might have played better, seriously) gets a follow-up today as the misunderstood Nazi defends his choice. But even larger than the shot of Petryk in his SS regalia is this picture of one Michael Loweth, a "heckler" notable for shouting "You're pathetic!" at Petryk. Also, "This is ridiculous, kid. Grow up! Millions of people died for a schmuck like you!" In a way, we totally understand the prominent coverage of Loweth's insightful heckling. Sure, anyone can toss out a "Boooo" or a "You suck" or a "Go back to (a place)!", but it takes a scholar to come up with that line about the millions of people. Michael, if you're reading this, and you'd like to take your nascent heckling stardom to the next level, get in touch. There are some offices we'd like you to start standing outside.

From the weekly Cartoons Angering Foreigners dispatch, the above oddity comes from German CGI enthusiast Walter Moers. The toon depicts a despondent Hitler in his Berlin bunker, mumbling a reggae-infused ditty about the depressing (for him) turn in the war. Beyond the strangely big-nosed Hitler and his rubber-duckie doppelganger backup singers, the humor is pretty flat. It's certainly not sympathetic to the Fuhrer, but perhaps because it's not particularly acidic, there are plenty of protests. Lightweight Hitler joshing still has trouble gaining comedic acceptance in our grim, repressive culture.

Hitler internet cartoon causes storm in Germany [Guardian]

Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, known in their East Village failed-rockstar days as the Pop Tarts, are working on a new documentary for HBO. The duo, now reinvented as Hollywood teevee people, make documentaries about high-camp icons like Monica Lewinsky and Tammy Faye Bakker. Their new film, in the same vein, for HBO: Was Hitler Gay?
Hitler's sexuality is HBO topic [Hollywood Reporter]
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