Glenn Beck's Hitler fetish

[liberal N proud]

Glenn Beck is obsessed with Hitler and Woodrow Wilson. (I'm just saying.)

By Dana Milbank
Sunday, October 3, 2010

Glenn Beck, the conservative television and radio host, is an amateur historian. Very amateur.

One day, he rhetorically asked his Fox News viewers: "Why did we buy Alaska in the 1950s?" A good question -- because "we" purchased Alaska in 1867. Another day, he gave his version of European history: "We have the Age of Enlightenment, 1620 to 1871, uh, 1781. This was a time when people said, 'Wait a minute, wait a minute, we can think out of the box.' This is coming out of the Dark Ages." That was thinking outside of the box, because the Dark Ages ended in about 1000 AD, six centuries earlier than Beck claimed.

Beck has created an online "Beck University" to spread his unique views of the past and has hosted "Founders' Fridays" on his television show, devoted to rewriting the nation's early history as that of a fundamentalist state.

When the subject turns, as it usually does, to President Obama, Beck again sees lessons from history. In particular, he has seized upon two individuals who he believes provide excellent historical parallels to the 44th commander in chief: Woodrow Wilson and Adolf Hitler.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/30/AR2010093005267.html?hpid=opinionsbox1


WOW!

[handmade34]

1. a little aside... sign

that Jon Stewart suggested for his Rally to Restore Sanity...

"I may disagree with you, but I know you are not Hitler!"

[TexasObserver]

2. He's very ignorant of actual History.

He makes Ronald Reagan look like a Rhodes Scholar, and all Ronnie's "history" of America was gleaned from cowboy and war movies.

[Locrian]

3. its springtime for hitler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K08akOt2kuo

[Initech]

4. Don't be a stupid, be a smarty come and join the Nazi party!

[AnnieBW]

12. Did he take ze Zacred Siegfried Oas?

First you will raise your right forefingers, und repeat after me.

I solemnly svear...
To obey ze Zacred Siegfried Oas...
Und!
Never, Never, Never!
Dishoner ze spirit und ze memory of Adolph Elizabeth Hitler!

[Trajan]

7. Thanks for the link ....

I wound up FBing this, along with 'I'm Hysterical' and 'Blue Blanket' too ....

The performances of Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder are genius in this movie ...

[Locrian]

10. heh - just watched it last week - laughed my ass off!

[tigereye]

5. his ignorance and hubris are astounding.

[foxfeet]

6. What really gets him off is the image of Hitler in fishnets and stiletto heels.

[Uncle Joe]

8. They shouldn't be so hard on Beck; maybe his family was conned into purchasing Alaska in the 1950s?

It could be, he's just coming around in to realizing that was a mistake, so give the man credit.

Thanks for the thread, liberal N proud.

[MrScorpio]

9. Glenn Beck has NAZI TOURETTES!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1s4fj-5zlk

[applegrove]

11. That Back In Black commentary will go down in history as one of his best.