You can't have it both ways, Pam.
The far-right blogger recently encouraged her readers to protest an event taking place at Rutgers University. It was a forum being sponsored by on-campus Muslim and Palestine groups, and Geller did not approve. She posted, approvingly, a letter from a Rutgers student who opposed the event. And hey, there's nothing wrong with vigorous, campus-wide debate.
But this section of the letter caught my eye:
By invoking the Nazi genocide, this event both defames the Jewish state and trivializes the systematic murder of 11 million people in the Holocaust, including six million Jews.
Geller championed a counter-protest at Rutgers because the planned event, by invoking the Nazi genocide, would trivialize the Holocaust.
Interesting, because of course that's what Glenn Beck and many of his colleagues are Fox News are routinely accused of doing -- trivializing the Holocaust with their incessant, and thoughtless, invocation of the Holocaust and the Nazi genocide while debating partisan American politics.
Here's what the Anti-Defamation League said about Beck four years ago, even before Beck really began to indulge his Third Reich rhetorical obsession [emphasis added]:
The six million Jewish victims and millions of other victims of Hitler deserve a measure of respect. Their deaths should not be used for political points or sloganeering. Every time a radio or television personality takes that unique event in history and twists it for their own political agenda, it cheapens the public debate and distorts and trivializes the Holocaust.
Of course, these days Beck and his Fox colleagues can't stop trivializing the Holocaust and 20th century's Nazi past. As Jon Stewart joked last week, Fox uses “Nazi” the way a teenager uses “like.” It's a stutter. Fox News is drowning in Nazi and Holocaust talk. And as the ADL rightly noted, that kind of unsightly use just trivializes the murder of six million Jews.
Just don't tell Pam Geller. She loves Fox News and defends Glenn Beck. But she's also deeply concerned about the trivialization of the Holocaust.
Like I said Pam, you can't have it both ways.