Beck: No apologies for promoting an anti-Semite Nazi sympathizer
June 07, 2010 11:20 am ET by Simon Maloy
This morning on his radio program, Glenn Beck responded to the general outcry over his approving comments last week for the work of Elizabeth Dilling, a virulent anti-Semite who actively supported Hitler and the Nazis during World War II. Beck's response contained neither an apology nor a disavowal nor any indication whatsoever that he was at all contrite over using his considerable media presence to promote a discredited and hateful woman's writings.
Instead, he said this:
BECK: But I'm also getting some amazing mail from the left that now says I'm a Nazi anti-Semite because I quoted a book on Friday -- it was the Red Book, or something like that. It was a who's who, who's in the communist party in 1935. Apparently, I don't know, apparently written by a Nazi sympathizer here in America. Part of the, I'm sure -- I don't know because I didn't look it up -- but I'm sure part of the Father Coughlin, social justice crowd, because this is the choice that progressives give you -- you're either a Nazi or a communist. No, I'm neither. But now -- so now I'm kind of stuck between the place where the left says that I'm a Nazi sympathizer and a Jew lover. So I guess the left can have it all, that I'm a Jew-loving Nazi sympathizer. It's a really interesting place that I don't know if anybody's ever been.
I'd like to point out a few things to Beck here.
First of all, you don't get to play like you don't even really remember what book you were talking about. You told everyone that you spent all of Thursday night reading it, and you were praising it to the skies on Friday as an early example of the sort of communist documentation you yourself claim to be currently undertaking: "This is a book -- and I'm a getting a ton of these -- from people who were doing what we're doing now. We now are documenting who all of these people are. Well, there were Americans in the first 50 years of this nation that took this seriously, and they documented it." I mean, really, Glenn -- you held the book in your hand as you feted it:
Second, because you were so effusive in your praise for the book, you don't get to attack the author now that you've learned that she was a Nazi. And by the way, I'd avoid saying things like "I didn't look it up" before launching into such attacks, because it was quite clearly that sort of incuriousness and recklessness that got you into this mess into the first place.
Third, you have absolutely no standing to attack "the left" for criticizing you for promoting The Red Network, a book that (according to the limited preview on Google Books) contains this passage:
...few years, under the opportunities of the American government and the inspiration of Christianity, the American Negroes have acquired professions, property, banks, homes, and produced a rising class of refined, home loving people. This is far more remarkable than that many Negroes are still backward. The Reds play upon the Negroes' love of their own people and represent them as persecuted in order to inflame them against the very white people who have in reality given the colored race far greater opportunities than their fellow negroes would give them in Africa today. [page 36]
And this one:
It is interesting to note in Communist literature that criminal violence is always promoted and excused under a cloak of supposed martyrdom. Negroes are urged to fight their white "oppressors," who actually have freed them and given them better jobs and opportunities than exist in Africa. [page 55]
And this one:
Speakers for the debasing and degrading Hindu, Mohammedan, Pagan, and Agnostic Cults are placed in "fellowship" and on an equal footing with speakers for Jesus Christ. The audiences chant a mixture of prayers and ritual from all of these. The savage Mohammedan call of the muezzin as heard in darkest Asia is mingled with the propaganda of the Hindu, Jew and agnostic. Negro choirs and performers give an interracial touch to the meetings. [page 152]
Sorry, Glenn, but you don't get to play the ignorant victim here, and you certainly don't get to play the role of the attack dog.
but but...will there be black face too?
Fix'd for Great Justice.
yeah right keep dreaming
No no no no.... That's what Beck does, everyday, saying that Progressives are either Communists or Nazis... I don't recall anyone ever accusing Beck of being a Communist.
AND... No one ever accused you of being a 'Jew Lover.' Actually, we are accusing you of pushing an Antisemitic Author.
He's such a liar.
Actually, she's a fairly typical progressive - racist, anti-Semitic, anti-American, pro-death.
Wow. That's some mighty fine misdirection you got there, Ed. Now, did you have anything germane to add to the topic of the article?
""This is a book -- and I'm a getting a ton of these -- from people who were doing what we're doing now. We now are documenting who all of these people are."
Shades of our Sainted McCarthy!
just lets get the names down, know who these vile sodomites are!
Who are their friends & lovers? Where do they work? Where do they live?
We cannot have these wrong ideas, not in a democracy. Everything should be made straight so that we may walk in the light that you provide, the light that only Becky can see.
He'll take you down blind alleys of pseudo-patriotic paranoia, through endless swamps of jingoistic hatred for "others," and up to the mountain top for both a dark glimpse forward into the hellish future of Democratic (Socialist) dominance, and a bright bucolic look back at the days of the Founders (who were not racist despite having owned slaves).
He bobs and weaves through an intricate maze of paranoid delusion and classic conservative victimhood (e.g. the lamestream media, the left, and the commies in the White house are all out to get him).
Glenn is a man of the people, beset on all sides by doubters, haters and commie atheists.
You know, Glenn is such a tool.
He sits there, working himself into a big lather over this book, which he esteemed enough to promote hand in hand with rare and antiqued pieces of Americana.
He sat there and lauded how this book talks about the same things he does. He introduced the book as part of his harangue against teachers unions (and in his praise for Christies fight against unions.)
He stated that the author represents a continuity with his own work, and even with the American Revolution.
That is probably the singularly most honest thing Glenn has ever said...
Dilling does represent the EXACT SAME THING WHICH HE AND HIS FOLLOWERS ARE DOING NOW.
And that should be a warning to them.
Glenn looked at Dillings work (so he claims, having supposedly read it the night before), and, without the filter of the term nazi, was able to discern his own words and ideas (and by extension, the words/ideas of his whole far right tea-party echo chamber) in that writing.
Its very telling (though not at all surprising) that Beck (having slandered even the Peace Corps as being the modern SS) should find common cause with Dilling... and what it tells is that Beck DOES have the same vision that she did.
And cheers to MMFA for bringing it to light!
Glenn is now trying to do some damage control. And his lame rebuttal speaks for someone who really does not understand the consequences of his words/actions.
I wonder how this will play off with his fans, who so often praise him for doing the research that none of them ever seem to be able to (they senselessly repeat that Glenn does his research, that he always checks his facts etc...)
Notwithstanding that it was his own fan-base that sent this book to him in first place; nor the fact that out of the stacks and stacks of books which he claims to receive, Glenn chose Dillings work and held it right next to important and antiqued Americana; nor the fact that most of his fan-base is at least as neo-nazi as is Glenn himself, I wonder how they will spin this?
Glenn still has the page for this broadcast up on his web-site, complete with a link straight over to Amazons order page for Dillings book. YEAH! He is still spreading it!
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/41526/
Heres the thing. Glenns following is so hypnotized by (what I guess they consider) his charisma, or even by his overblown emotional outbursts, that they have no problem simply by-passing the contradictions (let alone the outright lies) that he is now famous for spreading. I mean, these are people have made a religion out of cognitive dissonance.
They will buy Dillings book, resurrect her philosophy, and the whole time, they will scream that the NEA, the teachers unions and the Peace Corps are all the modern SS.
Also, I don’t know if Glenn understands that, while he pretends to be the friend of Jewish people, he says the term Jew in a manner that is uncomfortably reminiscent of rabidly anti-Semitic bigots. And, to my ear, it sounds like he is very familiar with using the term that way.
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Seriously.
Really? Beck said that Dilling was "doing what we're doing now." Sounds like he agree with what she was doing if he thinks that she was "doing what we're doing now."
Nice try, diamonds, but Beck is an uneducated, mentally unstable, dishonest radio DJ who has tricked under-informed folks like you into believing that he knows and CARES about what he spews on the radio every day. He thinks people like you who believe his crap are "idiots." Why do you watch and support someone who believes you are an idiot?
This fails to answer my question, how is quoting someone, or even agreeing with a particular viewpoint for that matter, implying you agree with everything or you endorse them? It doesn't, all sorts of commentators have guests on who they disagree with. If you did a study and found anti-semitism was a common theme among his close connections, when weighed against the other opinions, you may have a basis to make a point on (Beck attempts to make these sorts of connections all the time). But that's not even the case here. Here, wow, he quoted from a book written by someone who he disagrees with.
Am I the only one who finds it ironic that a major White House journalist just got busted for "disparaging remarks" about Jews in Israel and MMfA somehow manages to make their top story GLENN BECK NAZI SYMPATHIZER... Great job uncovering this media bias, I say!
That's a valid point, and although in this case no one said Beck agrees with EVERYTHING Dilling wrote, he does say she was doing what he and his listeners are doing now. You're just grasping at straws and parsing words here Diamonds, and I think everyone knows it.
Secondly, I suppose a right wing media figure or politician has to say repeatedly in front of a video camera "I (insert name here) expressly endorse everything (insert name here) says and has done." While a liberal politician or media figure just has to have passed through the same room that a negative figure had at one time passed through to be considered attached at the hip.
Unfortunately as progressives, we have become accustomed to this blatant double standard that well funded right wing media is able to push into the news cycle.
Well played.
OK, once again.
Dear Dumbass,
MMfA mission statement states they are
Get a clue diamonds! and try to be better self-educated.
Well, when your "primary-source materials" are rife with factual innaccuracies, it IS a bad thing.
Especially the propaganda of the agnostic.... I mean, what exactly is that supposed to be?
One would be hard-pressed to find an agnostic hollering in the park about saving souls and desperately trying to convert the fit gay dudes that go roller-blading by.
Dont think the agnostics ever came to my door with pamphlets and flyers.
So what exactly is agnostic propaganda? Dinosaur bones? Historical records? Cat Fancy magazine? Ugly Betty?
Any takers?
Agnostic propaganda however clearly states: "There is no god...or maybe there is one, I dunno...I give up, uh...join us if you want, I guess."
I guess the companies that advertise on Glenn's show feel OK about paying money to show off their products/services on a show that promotes Nazi propaganda.
There are only so many StormFront customers watching Glenn and you would think that the customer base is not big enough to support the likes of Nestle
live and act according to his own standards, values and
positions... ergo, Retire !