Glenn Beck draws criticism over latest Holocaust comments

[Swede]

Glenn Beck has railed many times against George Soros, a Hungarian-American financier and liberal philanthropist whom the conservative host dubs the "progressive puppet master."

But Beck ramped up his criticism this week on Fox News and his radio show, making comments about how Soros survived in Nazi-occupied Hungary that have provoked denunciations from Jewish organizations.


Beck said on the radio Wednesday that Soros—as a 13-year-old Jewish boy, living apart from his parents in order to avoid apprehension by the Nazis—"used to go around with this anti-Semite and deliver papers to the Jews and confiscate their property and then ship them off. … It was frightening. Here's a Jewish boy helping send the Jews to the death camps."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101112/bs_yblog_upshot/glenn-beck-draws-criticism-over-latest-holocaust-comments

[somone]

1. What a goddamn piece of garbage

Unbelievable

[monmouth]

2. There are numerous Jews in the media and I wish they would stand

up against this deplorable creep. He wants to go down this road? Let the Jews show him what a bumpy road that could be. I blame Rupert as much as Beck for allowing this disgusting spew to be aired.

[jaysunb]

3. An earlier post ask: How will Becks career end

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9546369

I'd say, when he crosses this bright line. If you don't believe it, ask Rick Sanchez.

Just saying....

[struggle4progress]

4. Glenn Beck's Remarks About Soros And the Holocaust 'Offensive And Over The Top'

New York, NY, November 11, 2010 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today criticized as "completely inappropriate and offensive" remarks by Glenn Beck on his radio and television programs, in which he inaccurately connected George Soros, who was then a young boy, to the actions of others in sending Jews to death camps during the Holocaust …

http://www.adl.org/PresRele/HolNa_52/5906_52.htm

[delightfulstar]

5. Hope he draws a fat fine, too...

And maybe even a pink slip and a one-way ticket to oblivion, if we're all lucky. He's crossed that kind of line too many times. He's such a total piece.

[struggle4progress]

6. Glenn Beck attack on George Soros outrages Jewish leaders

Thursday, November 11, 2010
by ron kampeas, jta

... On another occasion, the local Jewish council had ordered Soros to deliver letters to local lawyers. Soros' father, Tivadar, realized the letters were to Jewish lawyers and meant to expedite their deportation. He told his son to warn the targets to flee and ended the boy's work with the council ...

Simon Greer, the director of Jewish Funds for Justice, was one of several Jewish leaders who had confronted Beck after he said during the recent election season that terms like "social justice" lead to death camps ...

"No one who truly understands 'the sensitivity and sacred nature' of the Holocaust would deliberately and grotesquely mischaracterize the experience of a 13-year-old Jew in Nazi-occupied Hungary whose father hid him with a non-Jewish family to keep him alive," Greer said. "Many other Jews survived the attempted extermination of the Jewish people by changing their identities and hiding with Righteous Gentiles. With today's falsehoods, Beck has engaged in a form of Holocaust revisionism" ...

"Beck went beyond demonizing him; he cast him as the protagonist in an updated 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion,' " Michelle Goldberg wrote on the Daily Beast. "He described Soros as the most powerful man on earth, the creator of a 'shadow government' that manipulates regimes and currencies for its own enrichment. Obama is his 'puppet,' Beck says. Soros has even 'infiltrated the churches.' He foments social unrest and economic distress so he can bring down governments, all for his own financial gain" ...

http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/59834/glenn-beck-attack-on-george-soros-outrages-jewish-leaders/