Since Helen Thomas was forced to retire, can we have Glenn Beck fired too?

[backscatter712]

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201006040053

On his radio show today, Glenn Beck heralded and promoted the work of Nazi sympathizer Elizabeth Dilling, who spoke at rallies hosted by the leading American Nazi group and praised Hitler. Today, Dilling is heralded by White Supremacists and White Aryans who revere her "fearless" work against Jewish people.

As Media Matters' Simon Maloy noted, Beck had kind words for Dilling's 1934 anti-communist book, The Red Network, saying: "This is a book -- and I'm a getting a ton of these -- from people who were doing what we're doing now. We now are documenting who all of these people are. Well, there were Americans in the first 50 years of this nation that took this seriously, and they documented it." Maloy noted that Dilling has a long history of rabid anti-Semitism, such as calling President Eisenhower "Ike the Kike" and labeling President Kennedy's New Frontier program the "Jew frontier."

Professor Glen Jeansonne and writer David Luhrssen note in the encyclopedia Women and War that Dilling wasn't only anti-Semitic, but a sympathizer and supporter of the Nazis and Hitler:

When World War II began in 1939, Dilling was part of the national network of anti-Semitics, anti-Communists, and Nazi sympathizers such as Father Charles Coughlin, Reverend Gerald L. K. Smith, Reverend Gerald Winrod, and William Dudley Pelley. Material generated by Nazi organizations in Germany to inspire race hated and exploit dissatisfaction in the United States found its way into Dilling's publications. She spoke at rallies hosted by the leading U.S. Nazi organization, the German-American Bund, and had traveled to Germany, pronouncing the country as flourishing under Hitler.

Dilling called for appeasing Germany; she blamed the war on Jews and Communists and accused the Roosevelt administration of being controlled by Jewish Communists. ... After Pearl Harbor, Dilling resisted wartime rationing and denounced the Allies.

Let's face it. Glenn Beck's routinely 100,000 times worse than Helen Thomas could ever be on her worst day...

[Arrowhead2k1]

1. Beck doesn't speak truth to power, so he's harmless. nt

[Bobbieo]

2. Firing Glenn Beck would be nice!

[spin]

3. You have to take that up with Fox News ...

They appear to like the guy.

[backscatter712]

4. Yep, this falls under the category of IOKIYAR... n/t

[EgyptianGirl]

5. He is stupid and he makes people stupid

Why would they throw him? He is doing very fine in his job.

[madrchsod]

10. he is not stupid...

[backscatter712]

11. But he does make people stupid.

You're right - he's not stupid, he's evil.

[Grey]

6. Yes, Please.....

[Spaldeen]

7. nay, someone else, too.

Don't celebrities (and I use that term in the loosest possible sense so as to include Beck) go in threes? I'll take Glenn, AND somebody else.

[backscatter712]

12. Pat Buchanan? He's earned it over the years.

I mean we spent half the time arguing over Helen Thomas comparing her to Pat.

[Spaldeen]

13. deal. n/t

[Ozymanithrax]

8. From your mouth to Rupert Murdoch's ear...

Really, Beck is a demagogue who says what Fox wants him to say to their demographic. We should all call for him to be fired but he will be forgiven by Rupert Murdoch in Fox heaven for any transgression.

[LeftishBrit]

16. Actually, that leads to a beautiful thought - how about firing RUPERT MURDOCH???

[Ozymanithrax]

18. Far as I know, he is accountable to no one, so no one can fire him. n/t

[backscatter712]

19. I like that idea! n/t

[madrchsod]

9. her book "the octopus" is his bible

beck substitutes the code words and phrases his women used with liberals ,democrats,and other code words. her use of highlighting,black block capitalization of words and phrases, and other manipulations can be seen in becks blackboards.

dilling and beck`s style is very effective on the minds of those who believe that someone or some ideas are what is wrong with this country.


she wrote the octopus under the name of rev.frank woodruff johnson.

it is a text book for the manipulation of weak and frighten people

[krispos42]

14. Silly backscatter...

...only liberals get fired for making outrageous comments!

[LeftishBrit]

15. Great idea!

[Wizard777]

17. Beck has slandered FOX's second largest share holder on air.

Mene Mene Tekle Eupharison.