Beck: Pearl Harbor bombed "because Woodrow Wilson told England, 'You need to align yourself with us and not Japan' "
March 12, 2010 11:49 am ET
From the March 12 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:
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But he isn't apologizing for it.
Even when we do wrong we don't do wrong. Beckthink101.
“because Woodrow Wilson told England, ‘You need to align yourself with us and not Japan… So we humiliated Japan, So it was terror, the progressives (Americans) started it.”
Thanks Glenn, and all this time I thought Japan was responsible when they dropped bombs on our ships and strafed our sailors with bullets. I thought it was the Japanese who crippled our navy , and killed or wounded almost 4000 American servicemen.
Who knew they were just fighting back against American terrorism. Now I know that it was all our fault, thanks to you Glenn.
I guess when you look at the way you do Mr. Beck, you would have to conclude that the attack on the twin towers on 9/11 was Americas fault too. Al Qade and Osama, were forced to do it because of Bush’s support for Israel. How humiliating for them. They were just fighting back against the terror by the conservatives. This conclusion is inescapable if a guy thinks like you do Mr. Beck.
Glenn Beck, Why do you hate America?
Anything else, Glenn?
Glenn Beck will one day rather commit suicide than defend his litany of lunacy.
This man has absolutely no concept of history. He just throws sh*t out there and hopes that the ignorant people who listen to him believe it.
-Beck's a dumbass
-Beck is claiming that imperial Japan- people who toasted their own impending suicide- were such crybabies they held on to their poutrage over what Wilson said for at least seventeen years, which also makes him a dumbass.
-[put here in the interest of equal opportunity for the troll] You guuuuuuys! He was only talking about big gubmint! Stop iiiiiiiit!
I'm gonna go with the first choice [Beck's a dumbass.]
It's the safe choice -- especially where Beck's concerned . . .
The Japanese, Mr. Beck, were expansionist who wanted to take over the Pacific region, much like the Nazi's wanted to dominate Europe. They attacked because they felt that they had no option. They believed that they must destroy US ties (largely in the Philippines) so they could dominate the region without US interference. The Japanese were horrifically racist - murdering, pillaging and raping throughout China and Southeast Asia. They destroyed entire cities. I am sure anyone in China who lived through the Japanese occupation would be happy to inform you about their racist ideology, although few survived.
Beck is such an intellectual lightweight I am surprised that gravity can hold him down.
You gave the best analysis, serious analysis, I have seen here on this.
Bumper-sticker brilliant.
Did a quick Google Images search, and found this.. with the typical 'buck tooth jap'.
Also, one of the things that helped trigger Japan vs US was oil.
I believe your SHOVEL must be very worn by now! Glenn you have been DIGGING yourself in a hole far a long time!
Glenn ?Can you still se daylight?
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tough call...
Truer words were never spoken.
Prime example: the other thread, where Becky proclaims that the Founding Fathers wanted the USA to "become" Switzerland.
He wouldn't be talking about the same Switzerland that functioned as the Nazi's "bankers" in WWII, now, would he?
Get your money back Beck. Your G.E.D. IS WORTHLESS!
What is "racist" about what Beck said here? PLEASE explain why you think it is racist?
Japanese racism, not our racism.
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"What's wrong with what Beck said? It's a historical fact. Not his fault that you public school graduates don't know anything about teh history of this country."
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"In War, there can be no dissenters or neutrals, only Traitors"-- Abraham Lincoln.
The only problem was, the actual quote was "In THIS War, there can be no neutrals, only traitors," meaning that the author meant that the Civil War was a special case. Also, Abraham Lincoln never said it- the author was Stephen Douglas.
It would have been odd for Lincoln, a vocal dissenter during the American-Mexican War, to argue that there can never be dissenters or neutrals. Odd, and very hypocritical.
"The only problem was, the actual quote was "In THIS War, there can be no neutrals, only traitors," meaning that the author meant that the Civil War was a special case. Also, Abraham Lincoln never said it- the author was Stephen Douglas.
It would have been odd for Lincoln, a vocal dissenter during the American-Mexican War, to argue that there can never be dissenters or neutrals. Odd, and very hypocritical."
Thank you for the info. I'll save it.
"People were a little racist back then"
What does one say to an ignorant remark such as this . .
Japanese racism as well as European (that includes the U.S.) racism.
Wherever there is a clash of empires, racism is in the mix.
I mean, it looks racist, but racism doesn't exist, so it must be something else.
Why would the Japanese empire attack us for something Wilson said, let alone did?
And while I'm at it, Glenda never read a chapter that detailed how Japan became isolationist in the years prior to invading all of East Asia and sucker-punching us.
The idiot is not confusing Wilson with Roosevelt. He is making this up as he goes. He lost his touch with reality a while ago.
I'm about as interested as having U.S. History interpreted for me by Tom hanks or Steven Spielberg, as I am in having beck do me that same disservice.
The above clip made me curious as to what the heck was Tom Hanks saying, and what was it's context, so I got this from the The Desert News online:
HANKS: "But I would say that the differences between 'The Pacific' and 'Band of Brothers' are as different as the concept of the two different theaters of war in Europe. By and large, the European war at World War II was the last war of its kind, in which great armies fought and decided when they began and when they did not. In Europe, an enemy soldier could throw up his hands — his war would be over. The war in the Pacific was more like the wars we've seen ever since — a war of racism and terror, a war of absolute horrors, both on the battlefield and in the regular living conditions. The challenge ... was to take human beings and put them through hell and wonder how in the world they would approach the world when they came back."
I'm curious myself, what the heck is he talking about when he says "racism and terror", is he saying the U.S. was racist (I'm suddenly thinking of Japanese internment camps) or that we conducted terror against the Japanese (I'm thinking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki), is that what he meant?
Again, I'm as interested in being told about WWII by Hanks and Spielberg as I am by beck and his chortling crew (listening to them I expect at any moment they're going to make crank phone calls on the air, maybe call some mom and say her child has been kidnapped, snicker snicker, or her dad has been in a plane crash, giggle giggle, what a bunch a jerks those guys are).
Anyway, now that I think about it, I don't care what Hanks and Spielberg think about the Japanese war in the Pacific, because they're just mega-millionaire media creations like beck is, it's just that maybe they serve a different master (while both serving money), maybe it's Japanese corporate and cultural influence in Hollywood and the movie industry that's at play here (I believe Spielberg has a lucrative association with Sony, I believe all of his movie gang does).
The U.S. were racist as were the British and the ANZACS. Allied troops suffered for their initial (and official) preconceptions of the Japanese as inferior fighters, having poor eyesight and inferior equipment. The Malayan campaign and the fall of the Philippines as well as the Pearl Harbor attack were as much a consequence of the hubris of the Allies as the undoubted skill of the Japanese.
By the way, I regard all aerial bombardment other than on a clearly defined battlefield as an act of terrorism. Both sides inflicted that on the enemy.
Interestingly, the bitterness and cruelty of the conflict brought out both the worst and the best in many of the protagonists.
You are right on the camps, as evidence of racism.
Of course, anyone familiar with the period at all knows racism we not only common, endemic, but also legislated in many areas.
"You know down through history, you may not know this, every Pope, every one, has been Catholic. I mean, I don't know, maybe I'm just stupid but every single one? There's gotta be something wrong here. I mean why not, and I don't mean to promote my own faith here, but why why not, I don't know, a Mormon Pope? I bet you didn't know that. There has never been a Mormon Pope. There's never been a Methodist Pope. Never been a Lutheran Pope. Progressives in this country don't want you to know this but every single Pope down through history has been Catholic. Ted Kennedy didn't want you to know that. He took that to his grave."
But seriously, this is exactly what he does. He takes a fact or a statement and twists it and turns it inside out, until it is virtually unrecognizable and then proclaims he is telling so great, but undiscovered truth. It's exasperating because you never know where to start tearing it apart. I think that's part of his battle plan-win by attrition.
1. That the US involvement in WWII would come about shortly.
2. In order to prevent the US from taking down the Japanese Empire, they did a pre-emptive attack on our Pacific Fleet.
3. Once we declared war on Japan, Germany declared war on us as well, therefore pulling us completely into WWII both in the Pacific and Atlantic theatres of operation.
"Germans? Forget it, he's rolling..."
"WELL IT AIN'T OVER NOW!!!'
Beck reads Buchanan. Here is the Woodrow Wilson angle:
http://www.theamericancause.org/patwhydidjapan.htm