4um: Beck continues long history of invoking Nazis by comparing Fox to the Jews during the Holocaust

Title: Beck continues long history of invoking Nazis by comparing Fox to the Jews during the Holocaust
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Published: Oct 13, 2009
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Post Date: 2009-10-14 06:13:28 by wudidiz
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Beck continues long history of invoking Nazis by comparing Fox to the Jews during the Holocaust

Beck has repeatedly compared Obama to Hitler, claimed his policies are leading America toward Nazi Germany

"This is what Hitler did with the SS." Discussing Obama's call for a "civilian national security force" -- which was a reference to expanding the foreign service, AmeriCorps, and the Peace Corps -- Beck said on the August 27 edition of his Fox News program: "I'm finding this -- this is the hardest part to connect to. Because this is -- I mean, look, you know, David [Bellavia, former Army staff sergeant], what you just said is, you said, 'I'm not comparing' -- but you are. I mean, this is what Hitler did with the SS. He had his own people. He had the brownshirts and then the SS. This is what Saddam Hussein -- so -- but you are comparing that. And I -- I mean, I think America would have a really hard time getting their arms around that."

Beck: "I'm not comparing" Obama to Hitler, but asked his audience to "please read Mein Kampf" and learn from Germany's mistakes. On the August 12 broadcast of his radio show, discussing Obama's position on health care reform, Beck stated: "I am not comparing him to this, but please, read Mein Kampf for this reason. If you read it now, you see that Hitler told you what he was going to do. He told the Germans. It outsold the Bible. Germans read Mein Kampf, but what did they do? They didn't listen. 'Oh, he doesn't mean that.' 'Oh, he's just saying that to appeal to X, Y, Z.' All of the same lies we're telling to ourselves. 'No, that's crazy. Nobody would actually do that.' They buried their heads in the sand, and then it became too late. Please, America, take this man for what he says."

Beck cited Hitler to attack Obama, claim "[e]mpathy leads you to very bad decisions." During a discussion of Obama's statement that he would consider "empathy" in choosing a Supreme Court nominee, Beck drew a parallel

to Hitler on his May 26 Fox News show: "Finally -- well, he wasn't the president. He was the chancellor, Hitler, decided that it was the only empathetic thing to do, is to put this child down and put him out of his suffering. It was the beginning of the T4, which led to genocide everywhere. It was the beginning of it. Empathy leads you to very bad decisions many times."

Beck told Newsmax: "I fear a Reichstag moment." On September 29, conservative news website Newsmax.com reported of its interview with Beck:

But his real worry is that many Washington elitists really don't like our form of government and want to see it abolished.

"I fear a Reichstag moment," he said, referring to the 1933 burning of Germany's parliament building in Berlin that the Nazis blamed on communists and Hitler used as an excuse to suspend constitutional liberties and consolidate power.

"God forbid, another 9/11. Something that will turn this machine on, and power will be seized and voices will be silenced."

Beck links health care reform to Nazis, suggests reform would kill elderly and newborns. On his August 6 radio show, Beck suggested that health care reform would lead to the eugenics programs undertaken in Nazi Germany, saying that "three people in the White House are in love with eugenics" and that reform would kill the elderly and newborns.

Beck compared car dealership closures to Nazism, warning "at some point, they're going to come for you." While discussing the closures of auto dealerships under the bankruptcy deals of GM and Chrysler, Beck said that the "poem that keeps going through my mind" is "First they came for the Jews," adding, "Gang, at some point they're going to come for you."

Beck compared auto bailouts to the actions of German companies "in the early days of Adolf Hitler." While discussing the auto company bailouts on the April 1 edition of his Fox News program, after stating, "I am not saying that Barack Obama is a fascist," Beck said, "If I'm not mistaken, in the early days of Adolf Hitler, they were very happy to line up for help there as well. I mean, the companies were like, 'Hey, wait a minute. We can get, you know, we can get out of trouble here. They can help, et cetera, et cetera.' "

Beck compared TARP to "what happened to the lead-up with Hitler." On the April 21 edition of Fox Business' Money for Breakfast, Beck said of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, "This is not comparing these people to the people in Germany, but this is exactly what happened to the lead-up with Hitler. Hitler opened up the door and said, 'Hey, companies, I can help you.' They all ran through the door. And then in the end, they all saw, 'Uh-oh. I'm in bed with the devil.' They started to take their foot out, and Hitler said, 'Absolutely not. Sorry, gang. This is good for the country. We've got to do these things.' And it was too late."

Beck said "the Germans" during Hitler's rise "were an awful lot like we are now." On the June 10 edition of his Fox News program, Beck stated: "I think the Germans, however, were an awful lot like we are now. We're kind of living in a denial, like, 'No, no, that can't really be happening. No, that really -- I" -- you don't want to believe some things, but you have to. You have to actually think about them."

Beck airs photos of Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, asks, "Is this where we're headed?" On the April 2 edition of his Fox News program, while teasing the next day's show, Beck asked, "Is this where we're headed?" while airing photos of Hitler, Josef Stalin, and Vladimir Lenin.

ADL rebuked Beck for repeatedly smearing Gore as a Nazi

Beck repeatedly compared Gore to a Nazi propagandist. Beck has repeatedly likened Gore to a Nazi propagandist for speaking out about global warming, notably comparing Gore to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. Beck also suggested that by giving a speech to students, Gore was trying to "indoctrinate the kids" like the "new Hitler Youth" and said of Gore's 2006 Academy Award winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth: "It's like Hitler."

In 2007, ADL rebuked Beck's smears of Gore. On May 2, 2007, the ADL issued a press release condemning Beck's April 30, 2007, statement that "Al Gore's not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however. The goal is different. The goal is globalization. The goal is global carbon tax. The goal is the United Nations running the world." Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director and a Holocaust survivor, said of the remark, in part: "Glenn Beck's linkage of Hitler's plan to round up and exterminate Jews with Al Gore's efforts to raise awareness of global warming is outrageous, insensitive and deeply offensive."

Beck has also invoked the Holocaust to smear progressive organizations

Beck has also attacked progressive organizations as "brownshirts." Beck has repeatedly attacked the "brownshirts" at ACORN and "their henchmen" at the Service Employees International Union.

Beck has also invoked the Holocaust to criticize the media

Beck compared Fox News to Jews during Holocaust, other news organizations to silent bystanders. On the October 13 broadcast of his radio show, Beck compared Fox News to the Jews during the Holocaust, telling other media outlets, "When they're done with Fox, and you decide to speak out on something. The old, 'first they came for the Jews, and I wasn't Jewish.' " He went on to say, "When they're done with Fox and talk radio, do you really think they're going to leave you alone if you want to ask a tough question? ... If you believe that, you should open up a history book, because you've missed the point of many brutal dictators."

Beck compares media portrayal of "tea partygoers" to Nazi portrayal of "complainers." On the August 11 edition of his Fox show, Beck compared the media's portrayal of the "tea partygoers" to a Nazi propaganda poster portraying "complainers" about Nazi policies, saying, "This is a poster of what you see every day now in the news media making the complainers, the tea partygoers, look somehow rotten."

Beck not alone in invoking Nazis to smear progressives

Numerous conservative media figures have invoked Nazis to smear progressives. Media Matters for America has previously documented the conservative media's invocation of Hitler and the Nazis to smear the Obama administration, Democratic officials, and progressive policies.

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It's suspect that Beck wasn't this ambitious or aggressive with respect to Bush and his globalist nazi predecessors. They're all puppets dancing to the tune of international bankers.

Of course, Beck is correct in his analysis of Obama and the goons surrounding him. It would've been nice if he had confronted the other administrations, the bankers and the zionazis too !

The U.S. Govt is a tyrannical butcher; U.S. taxpayers are accomplices to international murder and mayhem. If you satisfy your fears by bowing to this butcher, you forfeit your humanity and possibly your soul.

Video: Glenn Beck now acknowledging Yom Kippur in his day of fast and prayer for the Republic

The Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur is generally seen as a day for atonement and repentance of sins. While Beck claims that there is nothing wrong with combining this holiday with his day to pray for the Republic some Jews may disagree. Imagine for instance if President Obama asked Americans to pray for the Republic on Christmas. Under such a scenario the conservatives would like launch an all-out offensive regarding the politicization of Christmas.

Today Glenn Beck once again talked about his day of prayer and fasting for the Republic but his new address placed much more emphasis on honoring the Jewish holiday as well. Beck seems to be walking a fine line between honoring the Jewish faith while also pushing his political agenda on the same day. Time will only tell if Beck's day of prayer and fasting is ultimately a success or a public relations nightmare with Jewish groups.

Glenn Beck talks today about September 28th as day of atonement and day to pray for Republic:

He has gained a huge following and hopefully it will work to the good of those that truly love liberty. Trust and respect are earned ... not granted.

A very large portion of Beck's audience demonstrated their displeasure on 9-12- 09 in D.C. and in person.

I agreed with Olbermann re: Bush and agree with Beck about Obama ... both parties are shit eating murderers ... and both Presidents are puppets. The ignorant are those trying to justify their own party affiliations.

Both parties can only accuse the other of being "WORSE" because neither party is worth a fiddlers f**k.

I think Beck probably knows or at least suspects, being of a paranoid mindset himself, that there was a "Reichstag moment" on September 11, 2001. But it is not permissible for him to voice such an opinion on FNC, the premier voice of Zionism.

Recall that night Geraldo was confronted by Alex Jones and the truthers while he was doing his show live on the street outside Fox's headquarters in Manhattan. Rivera off the top of his head called them every name in the book:

To Beck and all the other Fox warmongers, 9-11 was a GOOD "Reichstag moment" because it was the PNAC "new Pearl Harbor" "galvanizing event" which enabled Israel to order Uncle Sammy to fight a couple of new wars for it and threaten a third one.

I disagree about results. This has resulted in tens of millions in new revenue for Elder Beck. He's made WAY more money off this than Olbermann did bashing Bush.

“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.” - Sam Houston

Beck bashes "truthers" and at the same time states that he will "never" say things he doesn't believe, but may not say things he does believe.

You obviously don't know this, but he has a segment of his show where he argues with presumably brain dead people, and it is quite hilarious. During that segment, the brain dead person's first and last line of defense is "you're fat! You're a big fatso!" because, ultimately, ad hominem is all that the statists can come up with to diss him on.

I wish to extend my congratulations to you on performing that role in living color for all of us. The humor value of Beck's bit illustrating exactly what you did, just shot up 100%. :)

MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.

Gore's preposterous "message" isn't exactly propaganda, just a situation of "from his lips to the ears of a nation of equally stupid persons".

Beck's the modern day Goebbels! He spouts nothing but the (Republican) party line day after day.

George W. Bush ... => SCREWED.
Barack H. Obama . => DOOMED ...... J. A. Carter, (#3 Son)

Noone else can see the correlation? Perhaps one might move the branches on the tree so the forest is more visible.

Obviously those of you espousing your critical views of Beck don't watch the show enough to formulate a cognizant opinion.

Beck has been just as crtical of R's as he has D's. His views imo are more libertarian in nature. This does not mean I agree with all he says but, you folks are definately under a false impression.

"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that its people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms....The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson