Glenn Beck's favorite Nazi

[Ed Barrow]

Glenn Beck's latest excursion to the farthest fringes of the old American right, which occurred on his radio show last Friday when he endorsed "The Red Network" by the late Nazi author and activist Elizabeth Dilling, revealed much about his own weird outlook. According to the Fox News star, Dilling's book, a racist and anti-Semitic tract published in 1935 as an "exposé of Communism," strongly resembles the patriotic service that he performs today.

It is of course true that Dilling, and every other Nazi, Silver Shirt, Bundist and fascist of that era, promoted their ideology as "patriotic," "Constitutionalist" and devoutly "Christian," much as Beck does. But if he would like to understand the dismal pedigree of his own work in detail, he can look up another old book: "Under Cover," by John Roy Carlson, published by E.P. Dutton in 1943. Carlson's gripping work was among the greatest efforts of wartime investigative journalism, which he reported while masquerading as a pro-Nazi publicist under the name George Paganelli. (Carlson itself was a pen name for Arthur Derounian.) A sensational bestseller, "Under Cover" was a featured selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, which touted it as "a Who's Who of demagogues, crackpots, patrioteering racketeers, and Axis agents."

What Carlson/Paganelli learned as he ingratiated himself with Dilling and her ilk was that they were indeed spreading hate and sowing defeatism directly on behalf of the German and Japanese propaganda ministries. The Germans used their own news services to promote Dilling's operation, known as the "Patriotic Research Bureau," along with the works of William Dudley Pelley, Charles Hudson and Gerald B. Winrod, the Kansan who became notorious as the "Jayhawk Nazi." In short, the self-proclaimed patriots were traitors.

As Media Matters suggested in reporting Beck's embarrassing blunder, he clearly didn't bother to find out anything about Dilling's extremely checkered history before babbling about her book on the air, or he would quickly have discovered that she always was (and remains) a favorite of Nazis and Nazi sympathizers, including David Duke and the late Willis Carto. Brandishing a copy of "The Red Network," Beck told his audience that he had read it overnight, finding proof within that Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy "was absolutely right! He may have used bad tactics or whatever , but he was absolutely right!"


http://www.salon.com/news/glenn_beck/index.html?story=/opinion/conason/2010/06/07/dilling

[Lithos]

1. Interesting

I am not surprised though...

L-

[eleny]

2. It gets worse and worse

[underpants]

4. The obvious explanation is that Beck has a one-man inside joke going on with his fans

I know he has a lot of airtime to fill but seriously he looks like he is just setting them up for an "A HA! I fooled you" moment.

there really isn't much else that is within the realm of consideration....other than madness

[eleny]

5. "madness"

[underpants]

3. ....or whatever

:eyes:

[Knight Hawk]

6. Something strange!

If you want to hear something that is a little strange ponder this,one of Hitler's top generals was a General Beck ,he actually was one of the few "good Germans"who conspired to overthrow Hitler.Also the leader of Czechoslovakia when Hitler overthrew it in 1937? was named Beck.

[MisterP]

7. lots of pre-1941 American fascists made themselves more Murkan by fomenting and

participating in the 1947-55 Red Scare; it started 1945-46 with Klan terrorism, who attacked the 1948 Progressive Party which was rattling and rolling and bringing African-Americans into politics until Truman coopted their platform and the Dixiecrats ran Strom Thurmond (Christ he's old), scaring many Progs to the Dems. Fascist Third Way founder Francis Parker Yockey wrote for McCarthy! Beck's beloved Cleon Skousen was expelled from the Birchers! "Respectable conservative" Bill Buckley went cross-burning with his dad!

another example is Jon Voight's Nazi uncle whose party was condemned for pro-Axis activities

I'm sick of one and a half parties full of Pappy O'Daniels and Blanche Lincolns and John Connallys and MBNA Joes and Netanyahu buttplugs and Rahm Emanuels and Scoop Jacksons! I'm sick of grassroots activity being suppressed or coopted into the Veal Pen! stop repeating lies from McCarthy and Lee Greenwood and Raygun and Ann Coulter as though they were liberal and liberatory, as though those were the only options! God damn it! if we can't turn a party around for good, and not just to give out some crumbs and hidden bailouts to keep us insurrectionaries down, then we'll walk out! we'll leave any personalist veal pens with our votes and money, and even if we lose we won't have to hear us 70-percenters blamed for ruining the Party's chances, or that we owe the Party, or that this Leader or that Leader isn't accomplishing what they promised because we didn't support His Highness enough, or that we have to wait patiently just a little bit more, or that the fact that we're out of home and job is our fault, or because Big Business wasn't pampered enough, or something of no consequence! God damn it!

[struggle4progress]

8. Stormfront adores her, too

[Enthusiast]

9. We only need listen to Beck's

own words to understand he is ideologically Nazi all the way. I guess this is why he continually muddies the water by shouting that Obama is an Nazi, Communist, fascist, socialist and America hater.

[burnsei sensei]

10. Mr. Beck, you have just made love

to a traitor.
Like attracts like. Enjoy.

[Tutankhamun]

11. We're going to hear a lot more "Joe McCarthy was right" bullshit

from the RW in the near future. The left needs to beat them to the punch and remind people that McCarthy died a sobbing, drunken, discredited, reviled disgrace for a reason.

We need to outright ridicule anyone who supports McCarthy. Claiming he was correct is simply a technique to pave the way for a resurgence of McCarthyism. The only real difference is that nobody will believe there's a communist under the bed, but "he's a terrorist" is the modern meme.

We've got a "raghead" in the White House. Remember, McCain ran against a "terrorist" and an "Arab/Muslin".

[Robbie88]

12. Why does this idiot still have a job? n/t

[JohnWxy]

13. recommended!