Beck, who did not even go to college for more than one semester, has been given an honorary doctorate.[2] One barely has to guess from which
university.
Beck compared murdered and surviving members of the Norwegian Workers' Youth League, massacred by a right-wing terrorist at their summer camp in 2011, to the Hitler Youth with this statement: "There was a shooting at a political camp which sounds a little like, you know, the Hitler Youth or whatever, you know what I mean. Who does a camp for kids that's all about politics? Disturbing." In Norway, leading senior political commentator Frank Aarebrot labeled Beck "a vile propagandist" and a "fascist."
Beck compared Barack Obama to Newt Gingrich, saying Gingrich was a progressive. He said a person who opposes Obama and would support Gingrich is racist.[27]
Beck ratcheted up the level of Crazy on the subject of Obama's re-election when he asserted that the US deserved to be destroyed since such a move would "drive the righteous from among them" and all the other usual End Times crap you'd expect.[28]
In contrast, Beck is also convinced that Mitt Romney is the modern-day equivalent of George Washington[29] and Abraham Lincoln.[30] No shit.
Beck also had no real problem with trying to smear George Soros with a two-part special on his old Fox News show with what might be termed some very suspect analogies.[32]So suspect, in fact, that the Anti-Defamation League issued a complaint about it.[33]
Speaking of Judaism, Beck had a problem with the Reform variety, comparing it to "Radicalized Islam" for some odd reason. Needless to say, the ADL took issue with him on that as well.[34]
Beck also apparently knows where to draw the line on conspiracy theories, unlike Alex Jones - namely, right over Jones' face. He simultaneously threw Jones under the bus on a gun grabber conspiracy theory and then turned right around and came up with one himself.[35]
He's under the impression that an investigation by the Office of Congressional Ethics of his fellow space cadet Michele Bachmann for campaign fund shenanigans is actually a plot by the Muslim Brotherhood, because all of that previous hue and cry she made about Huma Abedin had so much of a basis in reality.[36]
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