"Did no New Yorker editor ponder the wisdom of literally comparing Jews to dogs?" tweeted one user.
Phillips, taking the notion of dynasty literally, compares the Bushes to the Stuarts of Britain and the Bourbons of France, and warns that George W.'s assumption of the Presidency so soon after his father's term — with Jeb Bush in the wings — could establish a family succession that would traduce America's republican traditions.
It's literally comparing Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler, death camps and Nazism that is spectacular demagoguery.
Besides, no one criticized Ke$ha's song "Cannibal" for literally comparing her appetite for guys to Jeffrey Dahmer (subtle, that one).
"He is quite literally comparing his desire to take children from homes with same-sex parents to the heroic events that led to the freeing of slaves," wrote Jeremy Hooper, a special projects consultant for GLAAD and Good As You blogger.
Still, his was an "Oi, oi, I'm one of the lads – honest!" kind of nationalism; in a 2014 Mail On Sunday article he literally compares British values to "fish 'n' chips, football and the Union Jack", before tacking on a cheeky reference to ramping up school surveillance.
Football frequently embodies this paradox, perhaps because it is on the field in which teams from Turkey find themselves literally competing, compared to and ranked with other nations.
For the first time, researchers and doctors might be able to determine how someone was wired — quite literally — and compare that picture with "regular" brains.
Don't take this comparison too literally, but if you compared us to the great Francis Bacon, I read that his gallery would literally steal paintings from his studio because Bacon would never consider them finished.
