Beck claims "progressives have written and rewritten history" and that's why we haven't "heard of the Nazis in America before"
March 11, 2010 6:16 pm ET
From the March 11 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck:
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How do people listen to this uneducated, dishonest CREEP?
Committee to Re-elect the President (CRP, or sometimes pejoratively referred to as CREEP)
Now, I don't know what this Camp Siegfried is... or how controversial putting their logo on a "onesy" is... but, his attack on German Americans is clear.
German American does NOT equal Nazi. As a German American, am I wrong for being offended by what he has said here today?
- Through my grandmother, a relative who died at the Boston Massacre
- Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution
Father's Side:
- through my grandmother, a relative who fought and died at the Alamo
You know, I am starting to think that the German American Chamber of Commerce might want to know how he feels about the U.S. doing business with their kind. Think I might slip them a link.
My last name is German because of ex-husband's family. His paternal grandfather was first generation American.
Beck is getting completely out of hand. I'm hoping that his ridiculous religious comments of recent days will finally be his undoing.
But I still like their American Eats series.
He's never heard, then, of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Or Timothy McVeigh.
Note that the Nazi groups and the people in them are all ultra right-wing. Makes you wonder why Becky is trying to pin the Nazi label on us liberals and progressives....
You can tell he has never stepped foot in a college history classroom.
/semi-snark
This seems to be a regular problem for Beck. I've watched his show a few times where he's promising some big revelation, or he's going to "expose" something that is being covered up. It always turns out to be some bit of common knowledge that everybody else learned in high school, and that Beck is in a panic about because he hasn't had time to digest it, put it in context, or begin to understand it.
What's scary is that his audience can't possibly be made up of kids who aren't in high school yet. There are a million or so American adults who dropped out of school, or were loaded the whole time, who are learning history from this ignoramus.
I HATE Illinois Nazis!
See, Glenn, the Blues Brothers actually broke this story in the early 80s. Didja miss that one?
It is a historical fact that the United States entered World War II against Germany to shut down the Concentration Camps.
Try reading a textbook. Do I have to prove to you that we landed in Normandy on 6/6/44? I wasn't there, but I know it was a fact. What is there to prove - the statement speaks for itself. I guess you didn't study US history. If you are this dimwitted I can't help you.
Remember this quote the next time BJ fan pretends to know anything about anything.
Yep along with other facts in history that was avoided because of the right-winged attempts to cover and hide history. Look at what Texas is doing to its school districts....
Christian right aims to change history lessons in Texas schools
Anyway. This kook is what I just said a KOOK!
And there were supporters of those 1930s American Nazis. Henry Ford. Charles Lindbergh. Father Coughlin.
Go read some more history books, Glenn
Such condescension from a person for whom the term "ignoramus" was coined.
By the way, did he mention all American hero Charles Lindbergh who was an apologist for Hitler and Henry Ford whose genuine pacifism was underpinned by a strong sympathy for the world view of Hitler and the Nazis?
Maybe if Beck had actually paid attention during his limited educational experience, he would have learned the same things.