Beck's Dangerous Campaign by Kati Marton

[Swede]

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Glenn Beck’s anti-George Soros tirade sounds very familiar to me. The Hungarian far right has been leveling those same charges for years, darkly hinting at the financier’s “omnipotence,” his ties to a global conspiracy, and his penchant for bringing down governments (soon our own!). In Hungary, everyone knows these are code words for anti-Semitism. To hear them repeated on our own airwaves in prime time is something else.

The trouble with George Soros is that, quite frankly, he doesn’t give a damn. Whether the slime is thrown from his former country or from Fox News, he rarely rises to the haters’ bait. Soros has experienced poison from demagogues more skilled (and more heavily armed) than Beck. In a life that has encompassed the most violent hatemongering of the 20th century—from fascism to communism—he flicks off this latest spray and keeps going.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-11-13/glenn-becks-attacks-on-george-soros/?cid=topic:featured1

[COLGATE4]

1. Starting with 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion', this type of vicious

antisemitism isn't (unfortunately) anything new. Beck is merely the latest American practicioner of it - a true heir to Father Coughlin or Henry Ford.

[Swede]

2. I liked this quote by the author.

"My Hungarian grandparents did not survive the Nazis, and my parents were jailed by the communists. I can still hear my father saying, “It always starts with words. Words matter.”"

[Scurrilous]

3. K & R

:thumbsup: