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Beck says "Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini" were all progressives like Van Jones

February 26, 2010 6:05 pm ET

From the February 26 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck:

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    • Author by shaggles (February 26, 2010 6:08 pm ET)
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      Jesus, Ghandi, MLK were all progressives just like Van Jones.
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      • Author by rkcomments (February 26, 2010 6:39 pm ET)
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        Hey Beck, time to come up with a new act, buddy! This is getting stale, even for your avid viewers in America's trailer parks and lunatic asylums!
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    • Author by marco21 (February 26, 2010 6:09 pm ET)
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      ZZZZZZZ. Seriously, Beck. You need new material. This is so tired.
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    • Author by 1st Republic 14th Star (February 26, 2010 6:10 pm ET)
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      Beck is just INSANE.

      Hitler and Mussolini made sure to eliminate the liberals and progressives in the politics of their countries.

      Stalin was hardly a progressive -- the government of the USSR was communist in name only. In fact, it was an oligarchy just like it had been under the Tsars. The only difference was that the royal family was supplanted by political agitators, and later by party apparatchiks.
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      • Author by Barry Bonds (February 26, 2010 7:06 pm ET)
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        Sounds like you studied this, but not in the same way Beck studied it.

        What is your problem?
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        • Author by John Paradox (February 26, 2010 8:34 pm ET)
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          1st Republic is suffering from an overdose of sanity and education!!
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    • Author by raddave43 (February 26, 2010 6:14 pm ET)
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      At least he isn't comparing them to the President.
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      • Author by dirtylittlereligion (February 26, 2010 7:26 pm ET)
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        This is more of a "guilt by association".

        Like..."OMFG! Obama was FRIENDS with and appointed Van Jones, who is just like HITLER!"

        Still the same old crazy Beck, just from another direction.
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    • Author by christopher howard (February 26, 2010 6:17 pm ET)
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      If Obama really is Hitler or Stalin, it's getting a little late in the day for him to round up the brave and virtuous opponents to his regime. I don't recall any loud opponents of either Hitler or Stalin being allowed to make millions on the airwaves while bashing them.
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    • Author by bintx (February 26, 2010 6:17 pm ET)
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      This guy is dangerous.

      Expect more attacks on Van Jones . . . Beck blames Jones for his loss of advertisers because the group Jones helped create but has NOT been associated with for three years, Color of Change, started the advertiser boycott. It has been reported that Beck's show in the UK, carried on Fox's sister network, Sky News, has been airing with NO corporate sponsors for over 2 weeks. He is also being slammed by other folks in the hate talk radio biz for his incoherent rants. Beck's scared he's going to get the ax from Fox like he did from HLN.

      He's not going down without smearing anybody and everybody. The man is nuts.
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      • Author by jonesjax2374 (February 26, 2010 6:55 pm ET)
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        That is very interesting bintx. Unfortuantely no one cares about Van Jones anymore, so he just sounds crazy again.
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      • Author by Barry Bonds (February 26, 2010 7:08 pm ET)
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        Why would Fox ax him? I heard he is a "ratings darling."
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        • Author by IRONY 101 (February 26, 2010 7:38 pm ET)
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          But sponsors won't go near him. How can they move him into prime time without sponsors...?
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          • Author by WoodstockNation1969 (February 26, 2010 8:03 pm ET)
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            Barry Bonds:
            the attack of Terror Tuesday had Out of this World Ratings!
            IF RATINGS RULE !
            Should we have more days like on 9/11?
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        • Author by bintx (February 28, 2010 11:49 am ET)
             
          Beck is getting heat from his fellow hate talkers and some of the Republican elites. Beck's craziness may be getting him ratings, but it's turning off the high ranking Republicans and other, more influential hate talkers. The GOP is Fox's bread and butter. They can't afford to lose them.
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    • Author by debfult85 (February 26, 2010 6:17 pm ET)
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      fox r u really going to keep this cramp and beck on? He is proving his brain cells r shot...i'll buy him a shot of whiskey might calm the poor guy down...Mad Mad Glen Beck, he should have went to the FREE(taxpayers)libraries and studied more, instead of the corner bar... get a law degree glen and then come back when you grown up!
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (February 26, 2010 6:18 pm ET)
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      What a nut job...! And he does this EVERY single day. Roger Ailes apparently lacks an embarrassment gene.
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      • Author by bintx (February 26, 2010 6:28 pm ET)
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        I'm thinking that the ax is getting ready to fall. Beck has had no corporate sponsors in the UK for over 2 weeks and he's getting a lot of flack from the rest of the hate talk radio stable. His lunacy is threatening to split the Republican Party . . . I think he's on the way out. The flameout is going to be something to watch.
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    • Author by iglou (February 26, 2010 6:39 pm ET)
         
      Did anyone listen to his revisionist form of the Nolan Chart? (Which was never created by Nolan actually just popularized by him.) He fails to say that bottom left side is a measure of PERSONAL freedom and the bottom right is Economic freedom. I'm actually highly cheezed he drew it as a diamond. It's not a diamond it's supposed to be two axis as in X and Y but I guess Elitists that go to college (or finish high school) are the only ones that understand this.

      Seriously any time you try to make a representation of politics in such a 2 dimensional form is overly simplified. Everywhere you go it's a mixed economy. Whatever an organization (or goverment or society or municipality or whatever) decides to use to handle an aspect of it's function varies and usually says little about the organization politically.

      This is just an attempt (amongst many) to demonize a persons beliefs in a free society, the irony does not escape me.
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    • Author by epkklk851 (February 26, 2010 6:52 pm ET)
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      Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini had nothing in common with Van Jones. So, Glennie, how did you score? I'm curious where did you come out. I'm over by Gandhi and Nelson Mandela.
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      • Author by soze169880 (February 26, 2010 7:24 pm ET)
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        But Gandhi and Mandela hated white culture! Or at least the white culture that was imprisoning, disenfranchising and massacring their people. The NERVE!
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    • Author by pete592 (February 26, 2010 7:04 pm ET)
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      Weren't Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini all paranoid sociopaths who started out relentlessly spewing anti-government propaganda, like Beck?
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    • Author by cugagcmu805031 (February 26, 2010 7:18 pm ET)
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      And to think, millions of people really believe the class dunce knows what he vomits from his oral orifice.
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    • Author by New Frontier (February 26, 2010 7:25 pm ET)
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      "Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini" were all progressives
      Just a few hours ago, Beck was whining about people calling him "Joe McCarthy". Either Beck has a bad memory, or he considers his viewers and listeners as just plain stupid (my vote).
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    • Author by Boxer1979 (February 26, 2010 7:28 pm ET)
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      Beck says "Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini" were all progressives like Van Jones

      LMAO! He is a corporate tool!

      Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini were all dictators who oppressed their own people, and others who disagreed with their ideologies. They used government influience as a shield to push their own real agendas. They believed in an elite oligarchy (a few), not a majority. Progressives were and is regular common people who believe in changes that benefits all people who are oppresed. Everything you do in life to make yourself and your family better is being progressive. Why not do it for a mass population? Oh I know it is all about the elite! Screw everyone else!

      SMH!
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    • Author by Boxer1979 (February 26, 2010 7:29 pm ET)
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      Beck says "Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini" were all progressives like Van Jones

      LMAO! He is a corporate tool!

      Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini were all dictators who oppressed their own people, and others who disagreed with their ideologies. They used government influience as a shield to push their own real agendas. They believed in an elite oligarchy (a few), not a majority. Progressives were and is regular common people who believe in changes that benefits all people who are oppresed. Everything you do in life to make yourself and your family better is being progressive. Why not do it for a mass population? Oh I know it is all about the elite! Screw everyone else!

      SMH!
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    • Author by aj.physics (February 26, 2010 7:34 pm ET)
         
      I think I saw this on Face Book... wow his analysis of the quadrants and what they believe is stunning, I can't think of words to describe it. I think Beck needs to hug a tree... Maybe he didn't get enough love from the local tree growing up which has made him hate them so. I bet he fell out of one when climbing one day and broke an arm.
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    • Author by thundavolt (February 26, 2010 7:48 pm ET)
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      There's nothing to talk about here. What proof does he have that progressives changed the meaning of Liberal. You cannot starting trying to discuss language because it evolves. Even though that would make language a bad thing to Beck it's the truth. American's progressed from "colour" to "color". This whole clip just goes to show he is pandering to the lowest of IQs. People who need to be told what to do and how they can and cannot be free. I hope Media Matter can put together videos showing that the right wing does not care about American people and that they think American people are stupid. Pointing out misinformation and lies is just not enough most people still need help to understand that they are being mocked. I'm trying but there is just too much material to go through and to find. I would like to leave no stone unturned.
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      • Author by Don Hussein Fabuloso (February 26, 2010 8:39 pm ET)
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        Tomorrow on Glenn Beck : Nostradumbass explains that he never called Van Jones HItler, Stalin, nor Mussolini.
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    • Author by donwelty (February 26, 2010 8:39 pm ET)
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      Beck draws a diagram that has no relation to reality--Oh, wait, neither does Beck.

      Here is a diagram related
      to reality:
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      IDIOT =
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      G. Beck =
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    • Author by 4teepee (February 27, 2010 3:43 am ET)
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      If right-wingers such as Hitler and Mussolini were progressives, Beck is a progressive.
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