Beck cites poem about the Holocaust to explain "why a lot of Americans aren't paying attention" to government actions

Who stops him from moving? He seems like he has enough money to find a way out.

Its funny how conservatives only like New York when it is in refference to 9/11. The worst day in American history is the only thing Beck likes about New York. Stay classy...and sober Glen!

Update:

First they came for the Gestapo, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't Gestapo
Then they came for the SS, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't SS
Then they came for the Hitler Youth, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Hitler Youth
Then the came for the wingnuts (Beck, Limbaugh, O'Rightwing, etc.) and there was no one to speak up
but then, no one really objected

Great point, I was thinking the exact same thing.

Exactly. He should replace the "they" in that with "I".

Wow, I thought I knew what that poem was about, but apparently I was wrong. When Niemoller wrote that they "came for" the Communists, trade unionists and Jews, he meant that the government bailed out their failing businesses! Boy do I have egg on my face.

You should check it out.Not that paranoid fools version but the actual poem. It's quite moving. I would call it a warning rather than a poem. A little creep like Beck should not even be allowed to repeat the words.

I agree, UK. Truly appalling.

Beck has said some eye-poppingly nasty things long before he was ever on Fox (or on CNN for that matter). I like your Limbaugh>Hannity>Beck formulation.

Agreed on the Limbaugh->Hannity->Beck inheritance properties. I think Hannity is pretty close to his on-air idiocy. Limbaugh may be less so. Beck is more the showman and therefore I suspect more phony but that doesn't mean sane.

how much of their on-air persona is real and how much is it an act?

It's 99.9% an act. They're in it ONLY for the money and all they have to do is spout hate and they've got a ready-made audience listening/watching every day.

Except for Hannity (who would have been a huge success on German radio in the 1930s), I think they're mostly egotistical radio guys who floundered around in the 70s, 80s or early 90s trying to find an angle that would pay them big bucks. They finally settled into the conservative movement where a combination of deregulation, narrow-minded listeners and narrow-interested media execs gave them a profitable platform to say anything and everything with no regard for reality. Kind of a perfect storm situation.

It's comparable to the "sport" of big-time wrestling. Everyone connected knows it's just a scripted show, yet the audiences still support this charade with huge turnouts and lots of money and a dazed willingness to passionately swallow whatever they hear shouted at them by the guy yelling into the microphone.

I know that's a pretty basic view but I can remember when The Incredible Hulk could get away with torture in full view of cheering fans.

I had never heard of Dr. Eugene Scott before and thought at first you were comparing Beck to Eugenie Scott (whom I like), which would have made no sense.

Of course there's another Dr. Scott you could compare Beck to, "or should I say, 'Von Scott'?"