Glenn Beck Deals The Seig Heil Card
Yesterday morning, Glenn Beck the 3rd most listened to right wing talk show host on radio, and rarely-watched CNN Headline News host, attempted to out-neanderthal, Michael Savage.
He began slowly with your prototype far-right talker information-aberration firing of a salvo against Democratic VP nominee, Joe Biden.
“Biden’s made far more dumb gaffes than Bush ever has.”
WOW. Just, wow.
Does anyone have enough computer memory to download President Bush’s trips over the tongue?
Continuing the vilification, Beck referenced a recent faux pas by Biden.
Seems Beck forgot Bush’s press conference mocking of a blind reporter, for wearing sun glasses.
While this is standard fare for the far right Lords of Loud, Beck decided distortion wasn’t enough and decided to go Third Reich fear factor pedal to the medal, calling Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama “a full-fledged fascist” with “Hitler youth in tow.”
He continued the Nazi-connect-a-dot alluding to Bill Clinton having sex on the White House bathroom floor, asking “who’ll be next on the bathroom floor in the White House…Karl Marx?”
I’m certainly not advocating that Headline News throw him off the air, though eyes and ears might be better for it. Calling the man who is very much in shape to become President of the United States for at least the next four years a Nazi is not an FCC crime. But why would CNN want to endure this type of association.
It certainly isn’t revenue.
You just have to wonder what type of audience they think Beck delivers for them.
In case you want to ask CNN and see if they have an answer, go here.
Steve
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Curious considering that Beck and his cohorts and the owners of the media monopolies are themselves fascists and advocates of. Though Hitler would have had Karl Marx tortured and killed as Beck would have (if he could) so as usual they just slap anything together they find offensive and ‘evil’ no matter how incongruous they may be to make their microscopic points.
The only problem with Obama, as far as they are concerned, is that he is black not white. Obama has too many things in common with them; especially in the economic and military areas. Just that the old sheetless form of racism is bubbling just below the surface of these knuckle dragging types. They become competent in code speak to get their points across.
I find it curious that whenever the right wingnuts want to vilify someone one on the left they accuse them of being part of some right wing ideology (Nazi, fascist, etc).
Glen Beck isn’t aware of the Ideology of the Political Spectrum. Communist, Socialists, Liberals and Progressives are to the left; centrists are obviously in the center and populist, conservatives, reactionaries and fascists are to the right. Therefore if you’re a communist, you are not a fascist.
A couple of definitions of Fascism:
“political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion”
“A philosophy or system of government that is marked by stringent social and economic control, a strong, centralized government usually headed by a dictator, and often a policy of belligerent nationalism”.
Sounds like Obama, Ayers, and Acorn to me.
“many Italian Fascists like Benito Mussolini were ex-socialists and ex-syndicalists, and…the Fascists professed to be a left-wing movement.[1] In practice, fascism opposed communism, conservatism and liberalism but also laissez faire capitalism and international socialism. Many scholars accept fascism as a search for a Third Way among these fields” [2]
[1] -Smith, Denis Mack. Mussolini; A Biography. New York: Vintage Books, 1983. p311
[2] - Bastow, Steve. Third Way Discourse: European Ideologies in the Twentieth Century. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 074861561X.
“An important factor in fascism gaining support in its earliest stages was the fact that it opposed discrimination based on social class and was strongly opposed to all forms of class war.[1] Fascism instead supported nationalist sentiments such as a strong unity, regardless of class, in the hopes of raising Italy up to the levels of its great Roman past.”
“Mussolini’s domestic goal, however, was the eventual establishment of a totalitarian state with himself as supreme leader”
Fascism combines nationalism, statism, discipline and a promise to “transcend” class conflict. Fascist party programs historically contain active social welfare policies to be implemented through a corporatist state.
Liberals want a new form of fascism, a warm, fuzzy, happy fascism.
So, maybe Obama does not evolve in as violent a direction as Mussolini (though he obviously doesn’t have a problem with the violence, see Ayers), but it’s not inconceivable he installs a totalitarian state that controls everything. And once installed, what then? The next president might not be so nice.
Thank you for providing this information as well as the link to CNN. This statement is too horrible not to comment on - with CNN and with friends and colleagues!!
When will Beck start wearing a confederate flag pin? It’ll be all the rage, I’m sure. I hear the faint strains of dixie playing as Sherman marches to the sea. The aristocracy of the south is still with us and it is the duty of all true americans to realize this and to crush it before it starts a fire. Glen Blechhhhh. Next, he’ll be a televangelist.
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thanks for the quotes, but I must point one thing out:
“The next president might not be so nice.” The current president is not so nice. Why would any changes made by the next president alter the ability of any future president to attempt anything? Just a thought.
If you study history at all, the comparisons between Hitler’s rise to power, and ultimately his ELECTION to the chancelorship of Germany, bear a striking similarily to Obama’s run for presidency. Now, you can get all huffed up about that or not, but it is eerily similar. Both charismatic young politicians, running at a time of divided politics in their respective countries. Both running of socialist ideals, marked with a large heaping of nationalism. Both huge supporters of, and freinds of the labor unions. Both fans of national health care, and also both fans of controling the wealth earned by any one individual. Now, if you want to get into a discussion of the real scary similarites we’ll move to his thoughts on gun control, his backing of the “fairness doctrine”; a lovely bill sponsored by Ms. Feinstien designed solely to quiet anyone on the right from talk radio; which by the way, is the last holdout for anything conservative in this country. Maybe you would like to discuss his views on the middle east, and his REAL feelings about the Jews. Are you going to sit there and tell us that anyone with a last name that is Arabic is FREINDLY to the Jewish community? After all, this is a man who spent 20 years in a pew, constatly spewing anti american, anti jewish reterich. For God’s sake, wake up. I predict several things about the upcoming Obama reich: 1. the passing of the Fairness Doctrine early in the regime, most likely within the first 90 days 2. Wide sweeping gun control bills sponsored in congress, not excluding abolishment of the second amendment 3. An entirely new tax bill, and if you think he can fund all his new give away programs by only raising taxes on people who make more than 200k, you nedd to take math class again 4. If the first three come true like I believe, the subsequent fall of democracy as we have known it for 232 years.
Now, call me crazy, whatever you will like. But, I am a student of history, and know that more than likely since most in this country are not, we are doomed to repeat it as usual. All you Obamaites will see, and what will be humurous, will be that YOU, the ones that backed him blindly, will be the first to cry foul, and will cry foul the loudest; but, unfortunately, just as in 1934, you will find out that it is too late, and that you can’t control the idiolist once they gain power. Good luck to you. I, like many Americans, will be clinging to my guns and my religion, and planning for the next revolution. Remember, the doorway to liberty is framed by musketts
Hi jhimmi. Fascism is better depicted as a reaction to a perceived crisis of European parliamentary democracy than as a third way; Fascism was fervently anti-communist, but its appeal and basis was analogous if not the same. In other words, communism and fascism were two competing alternates, not a second a third way.
Fascism (especially the Nazi expression) is also much more complex than simply a large government. Germany under Hitler did indeed claim to overcome class conflict, but it was hardly a leftist position; the ideal was to create a national racial community that would supplant class divisions. Similarly, Nazi social policies were explicitly or implicitly based on a racial view of the populace.
Anyone suggesting anything close to a similarity between Hitler and Obama is either too cynical to care about the truth or just a fool. The Nazis were a violent revolutionary party that was responsible for a number of deaths and attempted coups before Hitler attained Chancellorship. You might think Obama’s politics are a bit too liberal for your tastes, but the Democratic party is not looking to radically change the nature of governance in America.
Of course, the obvious joke is that these are the same people who didn’t bat an eye when Bush claimed wide emergency powers and hugely increased the power and size of the Federal government. There are plenty of honest conservatives around, but anyone saying this sort of nonsense clearly isn’t one.
“rarely-watched”? Beck is currently the third most watched man on cable news.