Glenn Beck likens outrage against Tancredo to "re-education" policies of USSR

[marmar]

I guess Neo-Nazis have got to stick together, huh? :shrug:

From MediaMatters:

CNN's Beck likened outrage against Tancredo to "re-education" policies of Soviet Union
On the December 14 edition of his CNN Headline News program, Glenn Beck said remarks by Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) in a November 19 interview with right-wing website WorldNetDaily.com "liken Miami to a Third World country" have "touched off a wave of controversy" that allegedly resulted in "death threats" and the cancellation of a Tancredo speaking engagement in Florida. Beck reasoned that "you can disagree with Tancredo all you want. ... But threaten to assassinate someone because you don't like his point of view? That actually does sound something like you'd find in a Third World country." Then Beck drew a connection to "

olitical correctness," stating, "Political correctness has its roots in the old Soviet Union. ... f someone was caught saying something that was out of line with Lenin's thinking, according to Trotsky, they'd be taken away for re-education until they were politically correct. That's where it came from. And that's exactly what's happening today in America."

Beck has himself ruminated on the possibility of assassinating a public figure. As Media Matters for America has noted, on the May 17 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio program, Beck said he was "thinking about killing Michael Moore" and pondered whether "I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it," before concluding: "No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out -- is this wrong?"

Further, as Colorado Media Matters noted, when Tancredo was asked to justify his claim that Miami was "a Third World country," Tancredo falsely claimed that Miami is the "murder capital of the world." In fact, FBI Uniform Crime Reporting data show that of the 20 most populous cities in the United States, there are nine U.S. cities -- Baltimore, Detroit, Philadelphia, Memphis, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Phoenix, and Columbus, Ohio -- with a murder rate higher than Miami's:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200612190003

[rurallib]

1. i heard the other day that Beck considers himself a "comedian"

Can you imagine that? A comedian!

[marmar]

3. He's the only one laughing.

:(

[EstimatedProphet]

2. I liken Glenn Beck to an orc.

[atreides1]

7. Not really

He's more like one of those scrawny goblins in Moria, nothing but a "wanna be".

[muntrv]

4. In short, the conservatives can dish it out but can't take it.

[manic expression]

5. Glenn Beck is a f*cking idiot n/t

[Robbien]

6. Beck is happy whenever he makes people notice him

He keeps spewing hate hoping something he says will get him noticed.

[Canadian_NewDemocrat]

8. well, this is the guy...

...who compared universal healthcare to Nazism.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

9. Beck the Hack is always the first to freal out when

someone compares a republican to Hitler