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

[FSogol]

From an article from Washington Post's Dana Milbank
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/30/AR2010093005267.html

Beck even found a way to blame Wilson for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor -- 20 years after Wilson left office and 17 years after his death. "You want to know why they bombed us? It didn't come out of the blue. You want to know why? Because Woodrow Wilson told England, 'You need to align yourself with us and not Japan.' And so we humiliated Japan." (It was the most creative reading of 20th-century history since "Animal House," when Bluto asks his frat brothers: "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!")

"Woodrow Wilson, he was a progressive just like this president," Beck said. "He talked about, you know, ways to get things done by going around Congress. . . . Guess what? This is a progressive in the White House. That's what he's doing."

The comparison continued as Beck likened not just Gore but also the United Nations to Hitler. "You got to have an enemy to fight," he said. "And when you have an enemy to fight, then you can unite the entire world behind you, and you seize power. That was Hitler's plan. His enemy: the Jew. Al Gore's enemy, the U.N.'s enemy: global warming. . . . And you must silence all dissenting voices. That's what Hitler did."



Well worth the read. Sorry if it has been posted before.

[LeftishBrit]

1. So if England had only allied itself with Japan there would have been no WW2?

My head aches...

[RandomThoughts]

2. Interesting, thought.

What if you don't want power?

How do you get a beer around this place? And travel money and many experiences.


I got the mug already, even got a still. Not figured out how to go out and have a beer yet.

[marmar]

3. His Nazi ambitions couldn't be more apparent.....

Hell, look at his book cover:

[NoPasaran]

4. A little more grist for Beck's Calvinball version of history

The election of Woodrow Wilson was celebrated by many progressives who named their children in his honor. Two of the more famous namesakes are Woodrow Wilson Guthrie, the leftist folksinger, and the American President Ronald Wilson Reagan. Thus it follows that Hitler = Wilson = Obama = Guthrie = Reagan.

[leftstreet]

5. We need to shut this guy down before we're all speaking FoxNews n/t