Beck agrees with caller who says "Marx and Hitler and Mussolini" were "modern-day forms of democracy"
March 04, 2010 10:45 am ET
From the March 4 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:
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Beck is stirring up some very scary forces. We can write him off as a loon, but he's a loon who can sell a lot of books, maintain a radio show and television show, and get crowds at "patriotic" events. At some point or other, the joke is over and the danger in his propaganda must be taken seriously
Way to go, Glenn! You've opened your mouth, and proven yourself a fool.
PRESIDENT SHEPHERD
I've been operating under the
assumption that the reason Bob (or Beck)
devotes so much time and energy to
shouting at the rain was that he simply
didn't get it. Well, I was wrong.
Bob's problem isn't that he doesn't
get it. Bob's problem is that he
can't sell it.
Glenn Beck is a charlatan trying to sell his wares through misdirection, blatant lies, and mostly fear.
What is he selling you may ask? Himself... he's selling his value as an important voice of the people in order to make money. He has no interest in the betterment of America, only himself.
Beck is just after the good gig and right now this is it.
Beck agrees with caller who says "Marx and Hitler and Mussolini" were "modern-day forms of conservative talk radio."
In 1932 Germany elected Hindenburg as their president with 53% of the vote. Hitler finished second with about 37%.
After those elections Hitler and the National Socialist Party started having a lot of rallies that attracted many, many disenchanted voters. He spoke to crowds of 60,000, 100,000, even as many as 120,000 speaking on topics such as failures of the system, and corruption within the government.
At the next election the Nazis picked up a significant number of seats in the Reichstag. Not enough for a majority, but enough to bring the government to a gridlock. Frustrated by the inability to get things done, Kurt von Schleicher resigned from his position as chancellor and Hitler was appointed in his place.
Shortly after that there was the Reichstag fire. Communists were blamed. Hitler persuaded Hindenburg to suspend a long list of civil liberties. Hitler then called upon Hindenburg to step aside and delegate his powers to him. When critics denounced him for this he forcefully responded, "Germany will be free, but not through you!" Weeks later he was given power to act freely beyond the German constitution and legislative body.
So, you have a member of a minority party, who lost an election rather convincingly, who then held many popular, though Mad Hatteris parties, that allowed him to slip into power. He then used a crisis to gain even more power.
Now, Glenn, you tell me what modern day events all of that seems all too similar to.
How do you say "fair and balanced" in German?
But, naturally, it's not true. Mussolini came to power via a coup d'etat, supported by the far-right, wealthy capitalists, and the military. He eventually did become admired by the public, but only after violently suppressing opposition parties and beginning a massive propaganda campaign. Hitler was a bit more popular before he became head-of-state than Mussolini, but the Nazis never had a majority until after Hitler became the Fuhrer. Marx, of course, was a philosopher who was at the very worst misguided, and had nothing to do with totalitarianism.
The question of the day.
He speaks to the ignorant. To the uneducated. To the people who think that they deserve everything without having to work for it, and that it's their right to take whatever they please from whomever they wish it from. This is his audience and they're a very dangerous group of people, because they honestly believe what he spews.
The short answer to your question of the day? If you're familiar with Milton then you know the answer. Better to rule over the rubble of humanity and society than serve in its growing better over time.
That's why Beck and his ilk are so very dangerous to our country.
That's my worry. I agree with everything you said. I am concerned that he is trying to build a power base that will sweep him in. I don't think he wants to govern or legislate, he just wants to hold everyone in his power. For all his talk of freedom, he really is all about control. He wants to remake the world in his vision, and he is very good at selling his vision to a very dangerous group of people. I'm trying to figure out the form he is pushing for and where he wants to go.
Karl Marx was an author, intellectual, economist, philosopher. He was never a politician. He never held any office, or elected office, of govenment position in his whole life. He was a Jew in Germany and rose to the heights he could, in education. An intellectual, but never lead so much as a parade of drunks.
I don't think Glenn actually ever read "Das Kapital" or "Mein Kampf" and stil sees these issues through an prism meant to focus attention to his continued broadcast, and little else.
"Now there's a man with an open mind, you can feel the breeze from here."
-Julius Marx
Drooling over their radios, listening to the voices of reason (treason) Limbaugh and Beck.
"I don't remember saying it" / "Direct me to the thread where I said that"