When Nazi Collaborators Aren't Collaborators

Concerning Rich Iott, (R+Tea Party Ohio) Jon Stewart called him a "history nerd." Even, of course, Homer nods, but really, Jon?  Last night, it seem , Iott claimed that northern Europeans who collaborated with the Nazis didn't collaborate because

[t]hey were doing what they thought was right for their country. And they were going out and fighting what they thought was a bigger, you know, a bigger evil."

Got that? Pierre Laval wasn't a collaborator because he thought he was doing what was best for France.  The mind boggles.

Increasing his idiot to speech ratio

Iott also contended that "this particular unit was one that was never charged with war crimes," though Cooper pointed out that one member was recently charged with the murder of 58 Jews. Iott replied: "The war on the eastern front was extremely brutal on both sides. Nobody was lily-white, that's for sure. Horrible things that happened on both sides."

See how that works? No one his group represents did anything really wrong except to the extent that they participated in the Holocaust.