On his Fox News show today Glenn Beck gave his studio audience a lecture about history by comparing the Obama administration to the Nazis and the bankers, auto industry executives, and AIG to the Jews. He stated that the American people won’t pay attention until the Obama administration comes for them. I think his comparison is insulting to Jews and memories of the Holocaust.
Here is the video courtesy of Media Matters:
Beck said, “I really truly believe the reason why a lot of Americans aren’t paying attention to this is because they, does anybody remember the poem first they came for the Jews and I didn’t stand up because I wasn’t a Jew, do you know that from Germany? I think this is the problem. First they came for the banks, and I wasn’t a banker. I didn’t really care. I didn’t stand up and say anything, then they came for the AIG executives, and they came for the car companies, and I didn’t say anything, until it gets down to you. Most people don’t see they are coming for you at some point. You are on the list. Everybody is on the list.”
The problems with Beck’s comparison are that Obama didn’t want to intervene in the financial sector and auto industry, and the Nazis didn’t give the Jews billions of dollars and let them live happily ever after. They exterminated them. No one who has gotten a federal bailout has even been charged with a crime, much less killed. Beck is telling people to wake up, because he thinks Obama is a fascist.
I think that America needs to wake up and demand that we get our money back from all of these bailouts. Frankly after all of our money was given to these giants of industry, I want the government to take an active role and protect our investment. These are companies that have already proven that they know how to lose money. The worst thing Uncle Sam could do is to throw billions of dollars at these people and leave them to their own devices.
The Holocaust comparison is not only wildly inaccurate, but also tasteless. I understand that Glenn Beck is in the entertainment business, but with this argument he is trivializing the Holocaust. If Beck said that the American people are the World Trade Center, and the Obama administration is the plane heading for the tower on 9/11, people would be outraged. (Of course, I have probably now given Beck an idea for Monday’s show).
My question is what is Fox News going to when a Republican gets into office, and Beck keeps saying these same things? This is Beck’s gimmick. It doesn’t change based on the occupant of the White House. I think that if Republicans ever win the White House again, Glenn Beck will be out of a job on Fox News.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you a psychotic with a Television show. This faux funny-man is a brillant counterpoint to Rush Limbaugh, where one is the emotionally sensitive, Fox news hypocrite with no knowledge of history or anything constructive to the country, King Rush is the overpaid angry old man who throws tantrums when he doesn’t get his oxycotin fix. Glenn Beck is at least photogenic enough to have his own TV show, which can’t be said for the other guy. Their talking points are childish and meaningless, and mock journalism and the first amendment. Their handlers must be giving orders from underground bunkers or mental wards. None of these people, Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter, and all the other throwbacks from their Hitler youth amount to enough of a human being that I wouldn’t cross the street to piss on them if they were on fire. Thank you folks and try the veal, I’ll be here all week.
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It was ok if shotgun cheney and dummy-boy bush were “Comin’ ta getcha” cuz they had God, Chevrolet, and Apple Pie on their side, right?
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I have been comparing the Obama administration to the rise of Hitler far longer than any of the talk show hosts. Anyone that wants to take the time needs to Google the rise of Adolph Hitler and just look at the condensed version. you will easily see that the Obama administrationis following almost to the letter the Nazi rise to power.
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Are you kidding me?? Fox news is the only real news. Are you mad b/c the liberal media is actually attacking Pelosi?? LOL. Jeez. You liberals are getting the 15 minutes of fame you have been wanting for 8 yrs. Or should I say infamy?! What more do you want? More radical liberalism? Of course you don’t b/c then you’d be considered a terrorist. I can’t wait until the gitmo detainees live right next door to you! You don’t have a chance in H E double hockey sticks of saving your life. Maybe when they attack your family you will believe waterboarding isn’t torture!!! Ignorant fools. Go back to your fairy tale liberal life.
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Nearly every story that the Democrats release is carefully planned to divert our attention to the “Next” step in their attempt to usurp our Constitution. No matter how many paid or convinced Liberal Koolaid Drinkers there are out there the truth is becoming more obvious daily. Look at Obama’s real numbers and understand that he only won by a total of 6%, he has lost that advantage by huge numbers that is why he is still in campaign mode. His approval rating has dropped 30 to 40 points since inaugeration day more than whiping out that small percentage. Again that is why the left is in such a panic, they can see the writing on the wall. This Pelosi thing is dropping those numbers even farther.
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that commented on the aryan hypocrites. Majority of the people that voted for Obama, did it out of the “change” facade. Did you know his cousin had the same campaign headline in Africa? Probably not. Did you know is cousin initially won by voter fraud? Probably not. Did you know a civil war started after he won? Do you see a pattern here? I certainly do! ACORN is a bunch of sheep that only see $ signs. I still believe Obama only won by voter fraud! If you go around picking homeless people off of park benches to get them to vote is fraud! You don’t deserve to vote! You don’t pay your tribute to live in this great nation therefore you shouldn’t have a chance to vote on who you want to run this great nation! Also, you lower class people thought he was going to give you more handouts….and we see now he is indirectly taxing you more than he is the upper class. Are you happy now that you have voted this socialist into presidency?!?!?!?!
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Obama will not need 8 years for his agenda. With the party of yes on his side he has succeeded in just over 100 days of putting us in debt for the next several generations, and is in the process of removing all morals from the nation. It looks like the homos will have what they are wanting very soon. This is a sad ending for the country we have all loved.
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if you don’t see the paralells between the obama agenda and the hitler rise to power then you are most assuredly blind. The comparison to the holocaust is apt, but obama is not going after jewish people this time. He will be going after working people, and instead of killing them he will be stealing their money (life’s work) and giving it to others.
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This individual seems to want to trivialize the harm that Obama is doing as he follows the roadmap made by Adolph Hitler himself. Using the Jews as the scapegoats for his tirade against Beck, Easley has done the exact same thing he accuses Beck of doing, using the Jewish community as a pawn in this political disagreement and attempted to divert attention from the true message of Obama’s march to Naziism/Socialism (yes they are one in the same if you bother to compare) and the danger it places each and every one of us in. (Think of the name Volkswagen, it was Hitler’s “Peoples car”, ring a bell?)
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Because Beck’s distortion reveals not only his lack of historical knowledge, but the complete idiocy of the comparison:
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak out for me.
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