Glenn Beck promotes book rife with anti-Semitism and racism

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

The same FOX that called for Helen Thomas' firing will continue to pay this bigot millions to promote actual Nazi literature:

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Glenn Beck promoted The Red Network: A "Who's Who" and Handbook of Radicalism for Patriots, stating that the book is "from people who were doing what we're doing now. We now are documenting who all of these people are." However, the book's author, Elizabeth Dilling, was a virulent anti-Semite, and The Red Network itself contains numerous passages that espouse anti-Semitism and racism.

Beck praises The Red Network

On the June 4 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program, Beck said:

BECK: This is a book, The Red Network. This came in from 1936. People -- McCarthy was absolutely right. Now he may not -- he may have used bad tactics or whatever, but he was absolutely right. 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. And this is from 1936, and in it, it talks about -- it's the who's who and handbook for radicalism for patriots. This is "Who are the communists in America?" The overwhelming number of communists -- labor unions. The other thing that they talked about was, in this book that I was reading last night, they said, you know, there's this teachers union thing, but you really want to know who the real radical communists are? The NEA. That's 1936. And they're talking about this new organization that is really nasty, that you really have to look out for. The NEA. But everything this book has talked about they have mainstreamed.

The Red Network is rife with racism, anti-Semitism, and religious bigotry

"Un-Christianized" "colored people" are "savages" who owe success to Christian whites. As part of a chapter alleging communist and socialist infiltration of religious institutions, Dilling wrote:

The colored people are a sincerely religious race. As long as they stayed in Africa un-Christianized, they remained, as did pagan white men, savages. Their pagan brothers in Africa today are savages, while in a comparatively few years, under the opportunities of the American government and the inspiration of Christianity, the American Negroes have acquired professions, property, banks, homes, and produced a rising class of refined, home loving people. This is far more remarkable than that many Negroes are still backward. The Reds play upon the Negroes' love of their own people and represent them as persecuted in order to inflame them against the very white people who have in reality given the colored race far greater opportunities than their fellow negroes would give them in Africa today.

http://mediamatters.org/research/201006070053

[LeftyMom]

1. Oh, I was guessing you meant the Book of Mormon.

:shrug:

[salvorhardin]

2. "Well, there were Americans in the first 50 years of this nation..."

Beck apparently also thinks the nation was founded somewhere around 1886.

Today he pretended to not even know the book's title despite having praised it and held it up to the camera:

BECK: But I'm also getting some amazing mail from the left that now says I'm a Nazi anti-Semite because I quoted a book on Friday -- it was the Red Book, or something like that. It was a who's who, who's in the communist party in 1935. Apparently, I don't know, apparently written by a Nazi sympathizer here in America. Part of the, I'm sure -- I don't know because I didn't look it up -- but I'm sure part of the Father Coughlin, social justice crowd, because this is the choice that progressives give you -- you're either a Nazi or a communist. No, I'm neither. But now -- so now I'm kind of stuck between the place where the left says that I'm a Nazi sympathizer and a Jew lover. So I guess the left can have it all, that I'm a Jew-loving Nazi sympathizer. It's a really interesting place that I don't know if anybody's ever been.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201006070018

[Chulanowa]

3. Father Coughlin and "Social Justice" in the same sentence

never thought i'd see the day.

[salvorhardin]

4. Yeah that whole statement was boneheaded and just plain wrong

There was nothing remotely resembling social justice in Father Coughlin's message of hate. I dare say Beck and Coughlin would have gotten along famously.

[Chulanowa]

5. I think Beck knows that

Seriously, he's not stupid. He tosses out these names, these subjects, these books; he obviously knows what he's talking about.

He's counting on his audience to do a little research. See, they already think they know what social justice is, but "Father Coughlin" is probably a mystery. So they look him up, and what they come away with is that people who advocate social justice are fascists and antisemites.

After all, beck said so.

[no limit]

8. "this is the choice that progressives give you -- you're either a Nazi or a communist"

Does this guy have no sense of irony?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. Let's send him a bunch of flowers.

[UTUSN]

7. K&R big #5 n/t

[starroute]

9. What NEA does he think he's talking about?

The National Endowment for the Arts was created in 1965, so it can't be that.

I would guess that the book was really referring to the NRA -- the National Recovery Administration -- which was struck down by the Supreme Court in 1935.

But I suppose this means Beck is now preparing to attack the NEA as a hotbed of communism.

[Catshrink]

11. National Education Association.

Hey, I belong to a radial commie organization. (Of course the fact that rank and file union members are pissed and disgusted with union leadership escapes him.)

[starroute]

12. Wow, I wouldn't have expected it, but you're absolutely correct

I always figured the NEA was a strictly professional organization. But by googling around a little, I managed to come up with a wackdoodle page headed "AMERICA's TEACHER UNIONS: Molding Our Children into World Citizens for the New World Order (http://www.knology.net/~bilrum/neaaft.htm) which claims:

"For a long time, the NEA did operate as a professional group, publishing information helpful to classroom teachers, trying to improve the quality of teachers and of teaching in public schools. But by the mid-1930s, the NEA - like its rival, the AFT - was militant and Marxist. The NEA became the foremost leader of the drive that was begun by John Dewey educationists in the American Federation of Teachers - the drive to create 'an educational program for a socialist America,' which would be governed by an elite of professional educator-politicians."

Unbelieveble.

[ernie1241]

10. Glenn Beck Recommends Elizabeth Dilling book

Additional information concerning Elizabeth Dilling, whose book Glenn Beck recommends:

1. Dilling acknowledged that UK conspiracy author, Nesta Webster, assisted Dilling with her book, The Red Network.

In 1926, Nesta authored a pamphlet for the British Fascisti entitled "The Need For Fascism in Great Britain" and she gave lectures under the auspices of the British Fascisti.

In 1933, Nesta wrote an article published in the 4/13/33 issue of The Patriot in which she dismissed British press accounts of Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany and she defended Hitler's policies. Nesta made the following observations:

"That Hitler is doing the best thing for Germany seems at present undeniable...For it must not be forgotten that in Germany, as everywhere else in the East of Europe, the Communists being predominantly Jewish, suppressing Communism necessarily involves taking action against a number of Jews...Let us recognize then his achievements hitherto."

2. The FBI HQ file on Elizabeth Dilling contains a FBI Chicago field office summary report on ED which states that in 1938, ED visited Germany and attended Nuremberg Conference of Nazi Party. In July 1939 she went to Germany again returning to the U.S. on 9/9/39. A friend of ED told FBI Chicago that ED said her trip to Germany was paid for by Nazi government. After returning from Germany, ED was pro-Nazi government and anti-England and anti-Jewish.

3. In a 10/9/41 speech in Nashville TN, ED said:

“There is more dictatorship in the U.S. under the New Deal than in Nazi Germany. I would rather have the Nazis here than the Russians or the British.”