Do we need a "Godwin's Law" for invocations of 9/11? Read what Alabama football coach Nick Saban said after his team lost to Louisiana-Monroe:
"Changes in history usually occur after some kind of catastrophic event," Saban said during the opening remarks of his weekly news conference. "It may be 9-11, which sort of changed the spirit of America relative to catastrophic events. Pearl Harbor kind of got us ready for World War II, or whatever, and that was a catastrophic event."
Thanks to Crooks and Liars we see that Joe Scarborough thinks it's totally appropriate to compare the loss of a football game with the deaths of thousands of unsuspecting people in a terrorist attack:
Nick Saban should not apologize for loving the United States of America. Just because liberals do not see 9/11 and Pearl Harbor as catastrophic events does not mean that Coach Saban should be bowed. He will never apologize for loving his family, his country and his God.
(Video at Crooks & Liars).
I think my eyebrows just flew off of my forehead. Nice gratuitous swipe at liberals, Joe. Sorry Joe, liberals don't see losing a football game as a catastrophic event. Though I'm sure that he'll say he's just kidding.
Saban also tried to clarify his remarks, through a spokesman:
"What Coach Saban said did not correlate losing a football game with tragedy; everyone needs to understand that. He was not equating losing football games to those catastrophic events," football spokesman Jeff Purington said in a statement to The Associated Press. "The message was that true spirit and unity become evident in the most difficult of times. Those were two tremendous examples that everyone can identify with."