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Glenn Beck continued his pattern of finding proto-Hitlers everywhere he looks. President Obama is the next Hitler for wanting to give health care to those who don’t have it — because, as everyone knows, Hitler began his campaign to exterminate the Jews by giving them health insurance. Even empathy leads to Hitler. And this time, the winner is — spins the wheel — the Wall Street protesters.
Beck Finds Another Hitler
October 9, 2011 at 11:28 am 
Ed Brayton 
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I am firmly opposed to in initiating violence, but I just can’t help it, every time I see Glenn Beck’s face, one of my first thoughts is, “that face was made for punchin’.” The thought seems to be beyond my control.
I am firmly opposed to in initiating violence, but I just can’t help it, every time I see Glenn Beck’s face, one of my first thoughts is, “that face was made for punchin’.” The thought seems to be beyond my control.
You have more restraint than I do. I think he needs to be bankrupted and forced to shack up in Section 8 and live off dead end jobs, unemployment and welfare–while he can get it.
According to the Tea Party/wingnuts, Obama is one of the most talented people in all of history.
He is simultaneously:
1. The antichrist. This is shared with the RCC Pope.
2. A Kenyan born, Moslem, terrorist.
3. A reincarnation of Hitler.
4. Black, despite having a white mother.
5. A commie.
They are running out of time (and mythological attributes) to add to his personhood.
I suppose he could pick up something from the Norse or Greek mythologies. Hmmm, Obama is the second coming of Thor or Mercury.
Wow, that was a big load of stupid.
Even empathy leaders to Hitler.
Can’t parse that! Maybe “leaders” -> “leads”?
Well, y’know who else was always finding scapegoats when shit went wrong–that’s right–HITLERBEK!!
Dr. X:
Thank you, for being human; anyone who DOESN’T want to punch Bek in the face makes me question their sanity.
“Occupy Wall Street”? Pah! This is America! Everybody knows that real protesters wear tri-cornered hats and fight for the status quo!
Re Dr. X @ #1
Actually, I would suggest that punching Mr. Beck in the gonads would be more appropriate. One can do serious damage to one’s fist by punching another in the head region.
I’m torn between clicking “play” on the clip or not.
On the one hand I like to see Beck embarassing himself publicly but I cannot bear the stupid when I hear him speak.
Dr. X — I have that visceral reaction to Bill O’Reilly, but strangely not to Beck. Beck just makes me want to get a crowd of crappy-TV-show-style high school bullies to point and laugh at him.
Lewis Black had it right: Glenn Beck has Nazi Tourettes.
Glenn Beck has also demonized President Woodrow Wilson and then likes to point towards certain behaviors and claim they’re acting just like that fascist progressive Woodrow Wilson. I think this narrative was first popularized amongst the current group of American conservatives by Jonah Goldberg. Mr. Goldberg falsely claimed that American liberals and progressives are fascists in a recent book he wrote.
I smell an Onion story: Discovery of lost documents indicate that the one politician who was not ‘just like Hitler’ was Hitler.
While it long has been acceptable to refer to his life as Hitlerian, a political scientist, given access to Nazi records long thought destroyed at the close of World War II, says that a reassment of the former fuhrer’s life may be necessary.
“At first I couldn’t believe it,” said Björn Funsmeldts of the University of Helsinki. “But these documents show, without doubt, that hundreds of Germans during the 1930s and the entire U.S. Congress had more of Hitler’s traits than Hitler himself.
“It’s too early to reevaluate our entire judgment, but in some ways it appears that he got a bad rap. There’s a reason they say that the victors write the history books.”
In addition to his well-known love of dogs, the records show that the reviled fascist was very generous when children came around on Halloween. Despite the poor economic conditions of pre-war Germany, Hitler often dropped expensive Swiss chocolates in the bags of eager Aryan youths.
Dieter Scherer, who, like many German children, was near starvation in the early 1930s before Hitler came to power, fondly remembered donning his grandfather’s pickelhaube and knocking on the door of the future unquestionable dictator’s modest apartment building.
“He not only gave the best candy; he would take the Judens’ bags and distribute them to those of us with blond hair,” Scherer recalled. “Once he ruffled my hair and told me how one day I would march through the streets of Paris. I was so proud when my mother and father were able to vote for the National Socialists.”
Not everyone, however, is comfortable with the new revalations.
Arkady Chepelskii, a Russian soldier who spent the last four months of the war as a Germaon prisoner of war, said he was happy to hear of Hitler’s suicide. He also had bitter memories of having eight brothers, his father, three uncles and a great aunt die at the hand of the Nazis.
Funsmeldts, the political sciencint, said such reactions are to be expected.
“It’s history,” he said. “Everybody has his own opinion.”
Why is this man still relevant? How insane do you have to be to look at the Occupy Whatever protesters and think “yeah, Hitler!”? How insane do you have to be to listen to him and then say “yeah, he’s got a point”?
I’d laugh if I didn’t think a decent percentage of the far right believes Beck is hitting nails square on the head.
Re Michael Heath @ #12
Mr. Goldberg doesn’t bad mouth Harry Truman, possibly because his mother claims to have had an affair with him.
YankeeCynic beat me to it, but I have the video.
Now that’s odd. I kinda figured he didn’t cast a reflection…
Wow, hitlers seem to be getting really common these days, I thought they were practically extinct. At this stage we’ll have to replace the phrase “breeding like rabbits” with “breeding like hitlers”
This is the sort of thing that makes The Road to Serfdom a dangerous book in the wrong hands. Hayek warned us about the problems with too much central planning, but too many Right-wingers picked up his book, took it too literally, over-extended it, misinterpreted it… and now every well-meaning person who pursues expanded welfare programs (not the same thing as socialism) is secretly Hitler *face palm*
Did y’all here Herman Cain saying “To protest Wall Street and the bankers is basically saying you’re anti-capitalism,”
They say rabbits are among the most prodigious multipliers, but lately it seems like the jackasses are multiplying at alarming rates.
What the fuck? Beck, the protestors are protesting *Wall Street* bankers, not community banks. Goldman Sachs isn’t running ATMs. Morgan Stanley isn’t running ATMs. They’re not protesting “people being rich”, they’re protesting them gaining the riches off taxpayer funds. Beck complains about redistribution of wealth, but then ignores that the redistribution has been going to the wealthy. That’s what the Buffett rule is about, Glenn — the redistribution of wealth to the wealthiest.
Maybe Beck thinks The Boys from Brazil was a documentary and he is trying to identify the 94 Hilters that are out there.
nikkane says:
Please do not insult Equus asinus.
apropos
No, lostcause, it’s really not. I’m not the biggest fan of PZ, but he is never even remotely in the same realm of wrongness as Fox News and Glenn Beck. And I’m even a member of the group that’s supposedly so persecuted by him (Christians, not idiots – the latter is your designation, I would guess).
Who needs Godwin’s Law (or Poe’s Law, for that matter) when we have Glenn Beck?
Can’t resist:
http://www.theonion.com/video/victim-in-fatal-car-accident-tragically-not-glenn,14380/
well, to be fair, glenn didn’t just compare him to hitler. he also compared him to stalin, mao, chavez, castro, mussolini, and lenin.
apparently Obama has more identities than Shirley Maclaine.
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