Inappropriate analogy of the day redux

James Taranto wrote in his April 12th Opinion Journal's so called "Best of the Web:"

Liberal commentators David Brock, Josh Marshall and Andrew Sullivan all fault Focus on the Family's James Dobson for making the following comment about judges on his radio show yesterday (he was addressing guest Mark Levin, author of "Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America"):

I heard a minister the other day talking about the great injustice and evil of the men in white robes, the Ku Klux Klan, that roamed the country in the South, and they did great wrong to civil rights and to morality. And now we have black-robed men, and that's what you're talking about.

In 1987 Sen. Ted Kennedy waged a similar attack against the judiciary: "Robert Bork's America is a land in which . . . blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters." Dobson's comment is as intemperate and foolish, though probably not as consequential, as Kennedy's.

Uh, no. Ted Kennedy's attack was not on "the judiciary" as a whole, but only Robert Bork. James Dobson, however, made a reckless and cavalier statement about the judiciary as a whole. Comparing the entire judiciary to an organization that uses intimidation tactics and murder to advance their unjust cause is not the same as suggesting one man may prefer forced segregation based on his previous rulings.

Dobson, by the way, is an influential donor to the Republican party. He provides large sums of money and influence on those running for office. His odd choice to declare judges are like the KKK could have a great influence on the future of the GOP. I only hope it serves to warn people of the wingnuttery of the right, and not as road map for the nation's future.