Beck criticized for comparing victims to "Hitler Youth"
Gunnair @ Tue Jul 26, 2011 8:05 pm
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Glenn Beck criticized for comparing Norway victims to "Hitler Youth"
By Lucy Madison Topics
The National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) criticized conservative talk show host Glenn Beck Tuesday over the former Fox News host's comparison of the victims of Norway's mass shooting to "Hitler Youth."
"Just when we think Glenn Beck can get no more offensive, he ups the ante," said NJDC President David Harris in a Tuesday statement. "It is simply horrendous that Beck would compare the young victims of this tragic crime in Norway to the 'Hitler Youth.' It is repugnant to invoke the Holocaust like this when discussing a Labor Party summer camp for teens -- to say nothing of a camp that was attacked in this calamitous way."
Sixty-eight people, mostly in their teens and 20s, were killed Friday in a shooting spree on Norway's Utoya Island, which was hosting a summer camp connected with the Labor Party's youth wing. Eight people were killed in a connected bomb blast outside the government headquarters in Oslo.
During his show Monday, Beck, called the idea of having a politically-oriented summer camp "disturbing" and likened those attending to members of the Hitler Youth, the Nazi Party's paramilitary arm for children.
"There was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like the Hitler Youth, or whatever," Beck said. "I mean, who does a camp for kids that's all about politics? Disturbing."
In the same show, Beck tied Anders Behring Breivik, the man who confessed to carrying out the two-pronged massacre, to supporters of "big government."
"He is doing the work of a madman. He is doing the work of what all people who want big government always do, and that is commit terrorist acts," Beck said.
Harris called on Beck to "cease and desist" his rhetoric in honor of the victims of Norway as well as the Holocaust.
"After myriad offensive examples of abusive Holocaust rhetoric, the time has finally come for Glenn Beck to cease and desist," he said. "Doing otherwise dilutes the memory of the Holocaust and stains the memory of the victims in Norway as well."
Torbjorn Eriksen, former press secretary to Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, also condemned Beck's remarks as "ignorant, incorrect and extremely hurtful."
"Young political activists have gathered at Utoya for over 60 years to learn about and be part of Democracy, the very opposite of what the Hitler Youth was about," he told the Daily Telegraph. "Glenn Beck's comments are ignorant, incorrect and extremely hurtful."
Breivik pleaded not guilty in an Oslo courtroom on Monday. According to the presiding judge, Breivik explained that he wanted to "save" Europe from the spread of Marxism, multiculturalism and Islamic immigration.
By Lucy Madison Topics
The National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) criticized conservative talk show host Glenn Beck Tuesday over the former Fox News host's comparison of the victims of Norway's mass shooting to "Hitler Youth."
"Just when we think Glenn Beck can get no more offensive, he ups the ante," said NJDC President David Harris in a Tuesday statement. "It is simply horrendous that Beck would compare the young victims of this tragic crime in Norway to the 'Hitler Youth.' It is repugnant to invoke the Holocaust like this when discussing a Labor Party summer camp for teens -- to say nothing of a camp that was attacked in this calamitous way."
Sixty-eight people, mostly in their teens and 20s, were killed Friday in a shooting spree on Norway's Utoya Island, which was hosting a summer camp connected with the Labor Party's youth wing. Eight people were killed in a connected bomb blast outside the government headquarters in Oslo.
During his show Monday, Beck, called the idea of having a politically-oriented summer camp "disturbing" and likened those attending to members of the Hitler Youth, the Nazi Party's paramilitary arm for children.
"There was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like the Hitler Youth, or whatever," Beck said. "I mean, who does a camp for kids that's all about politics? Disturbing."
In the same show, Beck tied Anders Behring Breivik, the man who confessed to carrying out the two-pronged massacre, to supporters of "big government."
"He is doing the work of a madman. He is doing the work of what all people who want big government always do, and that is commit terrorist acts," Beck said.
Harris called on Beck to "cease and desist" his rhetoric in honor of the victims of Norway as well as the Holocaust.
"After myriad offensive examples of abusive Holocaust rhetoric, the time has finally come for Glenn Beck to cease and desist," he said. "Doing otherwise dilutes the memory of the Holocaust and stains the memory of the victims in Norway as well."
Torbjorn Eriksen, former press secretary to Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, also condemned Beck's remarks as "ignorant, incorrect and extremely hurtful."
"Young political activists have gathered at Utoya for over 60 years to learn about and be part of Democracy, the very opposite of what the Hitler Youth was about," he told the Daily Telegraph. "Glenn Beck's comments are ignorant, incorrect and extremely hurtful."
Breivik pleaded not guilty in an Oslo courtroom on Monday. According to the presiding judge, Breivik explained that he wanted to "save" Europe from the spread of Marxism, multiculturalism and Islamic immigration.
"There was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like the Hitler Youth, or whatever," Beck said. "I mean, who does a camp for kids that's all about politics? Disturbing."
Yeah.
Scape @ Tue Jul 26, 2011 8:08 pm
Thanos @ Tue Jul 26, 2011 8:12 pm
Beck can't help it. He's just a genuinely awful person and it's in his nature to behave this way. All that poison builds up in his heart and in his head until it just has to burst out, like happens when a doctor slices open a pus-and-blood filled abcess.
Take the high road and pity Beck for being what he is. He'll never be good because it's not his destiny to be so. Just turn away from him and use him as one of the many glaring examples of how not to behave in your own personal life.
ShepherdsDog @ Tue Jul 26, 2011 8:13 pm
Comparing it to the Hitler Youth is definitely a 'Beckism' which is also a euphemism for the mouth acting as a back up valve for the asshole.
Unsound @ Tue Jul 26, 2011 8:48 pm
I've tried listening to his show a few times. It's like listening to a cult leader. It's about the only show on Fox radio that I've never been able to listen to all the way through.
I wish it was more surprising that he would say something like this.
xerxes @ Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:19 pm
Can we really be surprised anymore at the shit that comes out of Beck's mouth? This is, after all, a man who made fun of a rival radio show's wife who had miscarried.
Mustang1 @ Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:26 am
Beck is a hack moron. Tired rhetoric, empty platitudes - this halfwit only appeals to uncultured mouth breathers. This is one and only way this joke stays on the pop culture radar.
Regina @ Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:08 am
Wow....................just wow. What a tool. 
PublicAnimalNo9 @ Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:06 am
Gotta love Glenn Goebbels. He's a "class" act all the way.
BartSimpson @ Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:37 am
What's more disturbing than what Beck said is the fact that it's not so far off the mark. Really, what the hell is with a 'summer camp' whose purpose is teaching kids the correct political viewpoints?
Beck was off the mark with the Hitler Youth comment because this Worker's Youth League more closely resembles the Soviet Union's Young Pioneers.
BartSimpson @ Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:39 am
Mustang1 Mustang1:
Beck is a hack moron.
And you wish you had his bank account.
PublicAnimalNo9 @ Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:48 am
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
Mustang1 Mustang1:
Beck is a hack moron.
And you wish you had his bank account.
Not me. I don't like dirty money.
Proculation @ Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:54 am
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
What's more disturbing than what Beck said is the fact that it's not so far off the mark. Really, what the hell is with a 'summer camp' whose purpose is teaching kids the correct political viewpoints?
Beck was off the mark with the Hitler Youth comment because this Worker's Youth League more closely resembles the Soviet Union's Young Pioneers.
Beck was off the mark with the Hitler Youth comment because this Worker's Youth League more closely resembles the Soviet Union's Young Pioneers.
I've read the testimony of a 16 yo young boy who was on the island and survived. The reporter said that the ringing on his phone was The Internationale...
Psudo @ Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:56 am
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
What's more disturbing than what Beck said is the fact that it's not so far off the mark. Really, what the hell is with a 'summer camp' whose purpose is teaching kids the correct political viewpoints?
I think such things are the product of a general Scandinavian philosophy that you should choose your life path as early as possible. So teens interested in politics should begin getting formally involved in "high politics" immediately, in order to get themselves on a prompt path to a career in the field.
Bart, I think you and Beck are both being a little too critical of the groups. It sounds like something I might have been interested in when I was 15.
PublicAnimalNo9 @ Wed Jul 27, 2011 9:04 am
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
What's more disturbing than what Beck said is the fact that it's not so far off the mark. Really, what the hell is with a 'summer camp' whose purpose is teaching kids the correct political viewpoints?
I asked this in a different thread. WHat's the difference between a camp, and parents teaching their kids the "correct" politcial viewpoint?