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Beck: "I'm not comparing" Obama to Hitler, but "please read Mein Kampf" and learn from Germany's mistakes

August 12, 2009 11:38 am ET

From the August 12 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:

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    • Author by pete592 (August 12, 2009 11:41 am ET)
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      If you find it necessary to "clarify" that you're not making a comparison to Hitler... it means you're making a comparison to Hitler.
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      • Author by NiceguyEddie (August 12, 2009 11:43 am ET)
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        Perhaps "read[iong] Mein Kampf" and "learn[ing] from Germany's mistakes" means never again voting in a right-winger, or tolerating bigotry against racial or religious minorities.
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    • Author by NiceguyEddie (August 12, 2009 11:41 am ET)
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      So... What...? Is he saying we should get rid of all the hard-line right wingers, embrace racial and religious diversity and enter a new golden age of liberbal intellectualism?

      Is THAT how we should learn from Germany's mistake?

      Because that's really the only way his statement would make any sense.
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    • Author by Max Credits (August 12, 2009 11:41 am ET)
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      The straight truth is that Glenn Beck saw the image of Hitler floating in his double shot of NyQuil last night.
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      • Author by ForTheLoveOfEllipsis... (August 12, 2009 11:46 am ET)
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        And now I have to clean my drink off my monitor again... :o)
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    • Author by dmhack (August 12, 2009 11:46 am ET)
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      Clearly, he has never read Mein Kampf.
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    • Author by shaggles (August 12, 2009 11:51 am ET)
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      I love that. 'I'm not comparing Obama to Hitler but he's just like Hitler.'
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    • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (August 12, 2009 11:52 am ET)
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      "please read Mein Kampf" and learn from Germany's mistakes
      Isn't that like asking someone to read Gone With the Wind and learn from the South's mistakes?
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      • Author by Barry Bonds (August 12, 2009 12:43 pm ET)
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        Very well put, I was also trying to put the illogicality of it in words.
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    • Author by bintx (August 12, 2009 11:56 am ET)
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      I have and I will . . . I refuse to listen to anti-American propaganda spewed from the radio.
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    • Author by epkklk851 (August 12, 2009 11:58 am ET)
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      Pleae America! Take THIS man for what he says! How would reading "Mein Kampf" prepare anyone for Barack Obama? If we are supposed to take Obama for what he says, shouldn't we read his books? And while we are at it, if we are to take people for what they say or write, what about what Glenn Beck says and writes? Glenn Beck has borrowed a proponent of revolution as his latest image to suggest changes in the country, and he shills for this book at every turn. He also pushes the book of a fellow co-religionist (W. Cleon Skousen) who was a lying conspiracy monger who believed in white racial superiority and an apocalypse that would lead to a Mormon Theocracy in God's chosen country of America. Is this what we want? Is this what most of Glenn's fans want? Glenn is dangerous.
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    • Author by pam95650 (August 12, 2009 12:10 pm ET)
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      I can tell you what YOU say,Mr Beck. You're a nut case and should be put away FOREVER. YOU'RE A DANGEROUS MAN!
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    • Author by MickD (August 12, 2009 12:43 pm ET)
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      Bullsh*t! A million bucks Becky has never read MK. And then telling his ancient, creaky non-literate audience to pick it up. What a scream.

      Beck's Book Club.
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    • Author by vysotsky (August 12, 2009 1:02 pm ET)
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      Right. So Beck is not comparing Obama to Hitler. He's just comparing the decision to implement a single-payer healthcare to the decision to exterminate Jews. That's much less offensive.
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    • Author by Vincenzo (August 12, 2009 1:03 pm ET)
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      I'm not comparing Glenn Beck to Joe McCarthy but...well I guess I am comparing him to Joe McCarthy. Oh and read what you want, my preference is history by people not pushing an ideology.
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      • Author by blengeck (August 12, 2009 1:36 pm ET)
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        If you listen and believe everything a politician says, than you are a complete moron. How did you survive 8 years of Bush? It's interesting that you have insulted the major portion of your audience (which is made up of the KKK, Arion Nation, and skin heads) by comparing a Black man to their leader. This is classic, but you all deserve each other. It was bad enough that Bush made us look like fools. People like you and your show make Americans look like arrogant, ignorant, racist fools. Shame on you, for waging war against your own country and its people.
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    • Author by blengeck (August 12, 2009 1:24 pm ET)
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      IF you listen and believe everything a politician says, than you are a complete moron. How did you survive 8 years of Bush? It's interesting that you have insulted the major portion of your audience (which is made up of the KKK, Arion Nation, and skin heads) by comparing a Black man to their leader. This is classic, you all deserve each other. It was bad enough that Bush made us look like fools. People like you and your show make Americans look like arrogant, ignorant, racist fools. Shame on you, for waging war against your own country and its people.
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    • Author by WhatImlost (August 12, 2009 4:19 pm ET)
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      I'd hate to point out that 99% of Mein Kampf sales happened post 1945, after Hitler's death......

      I'd also hate to point out that (although I could be wrong about this) no book has ever out sold the bible in terms of total copies sold.
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      • Author by Vincenzo (August 12, 2009 4:32 pm ET)
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        And yet they are two books, along with another one I will not mention, that people seem to frequently misread as supporting their version of reality.
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      • Author by dave_82 (August 12, 2009 6:21 pm ET)
           
        Harry Potter series did. So did Lord of the Rings.
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    • Author by dave_82 (August 12, 2009 6:23 pm ET)
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      So you have read Mein Kampf? wow, Mein Kampf today, Nazi Propaganda Images the other day. What will tomorrow bring!
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