Glenn Beck gives Rupert Murdoch something to smile about

"There was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like, you know, the Hitler Youth. I mean, who does a camp for kids that's all about politics? Disturbing."

-- Glenn Beck, on his radio show Monday

by Ken

When shocked word began to spread about Glenn Beck's latest sociopathic blitherings, I'm guessing that Rupert Murdoch cracked his first smile in weeks. I imagine him saying to one of his underlings something like: "Thank God the little shit isn't our problem anymore."

Jon Swaine reported in the Telegraph:

Torbjørn Eriksen, a former press secretary to Jens Stoltenberg, Norway's prime minister, described the comment as "a new low" for the broadcaster, who has frequently been forced to apologise for offensive remarks.

"Young political activists have gathered at Utoya for over 60 years to learn about and be part of democracy, the very opposite of what the Hitler Youth was about," he told The Daily Telegraph. "Glenn Beck's comments are ignorant, incorrect and extremely hurtful."

I suppose it's good to know that someone's keeping track of Glenn's "new lows," and if the job has to be entrusted to Norwegians, well, at least somebody's on the job. And it's not an easy one. After all, this is a man who tries his darnedest to outdo himself every time he gets near a microphone. He can't set a new low every time out, but it's not for want of trying.

This is a fascinating phenomenon, the Hate Hitler campaign the ultraloonified Right has been waging in recent years. I have to assume it's overcompensation for what must be as obvious to them as it is to anyone with any familiarity with the sociology of Hitler's National Socialism: that they are in virtually every respect -- ideological, political, organizational, strategic, and not least in matters of personal and group style (the total surrender to paranoia, hatred, and fear) -- indistinguishable from the original Nazis.

As usual, our Glenn is absolutely and utterly wrong about everything. It's the stunning accomplishment of the modern-day Loonified Right to live entire lives without ever grazing up against any thought that is remotely factual. So, just as he is 100 percent perniciously ignorant about the Norwegian Labor Party's youth camps, he really knows nothing about the Hitler-Jugend, or Hitler Youth. From Wikipedia:

The HJ were viewed as future "Aryan supermen" and were indoctrinated in anti-Semitism. One aim was to instill the motivation that would enable HJ members, as soldiers, to fight faithfully for the Third Reich. The HJ put more emphasis on physical and military training than on academic study. The Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen (NSRBL), the umbrella organization promoting and coordinating sport activities in Germany during the Nazi period, had the responsibility of overseeing the physical fitness development programs provided to the German youth.

Actually, the person who's running propaganda camps for kids is our Glenn. MSNBC reports:

Despite his harsh words, Beck actually has some involvement in political youth camps himself. His 9/12 Project -- which aims to unite Americans as much as they were on the day following the Sept. 11 attacks -- has been running camps for kids this summer. The Utah camp, for example, seeks to provide "heritage-based education for youth, with special focus on the Constitution and the Founding generation."

I doubt very much that our Glenn so much as knows anyone who knows anything about either the Constitution or the Founding generation -- apart from the propaganda delusions self-circulated among the self-created mental defectives of the Loonified Right, who get their "information" out of their posteriors. (I suspect too that fitness doesn't figure much in Glenno's indoctrination camps. Although it does seem to have mattered to the older survivalist wackos of the Loonified Right, the newer cohorts seem more devoted to slothful lard-tub corpulence like their role models, including Glenno.)

How proud Glenn must be, to be 100 percent counterfactual on all fronts once again! You'd figure the laws of probability dictate that occasionally something would ooze out of his maw which isn't egregious bulldoody. But his personal permanent War Against Truth seems to have enabled him to achieve the unachievable: being always wrong.

On the other hand, even in the extremity of their fanaticism the Nazis might have been wary of our Glenn. The Nazis prized few qualitiies more than loyalty, whereas our Glenn's history suggests that he eventually betrays everyone who's foolish enough to invest any trust in him. There's no evidence that he believes in anything apart from cynically opportunistic self-promotion.

THIS MAN SHOULD BE SELLING CRYSTAL BALLS
INSTEAD OF PROMOTING SLEAZY GOLD SCAMS

I love this concluding tidbit from the MSNBC report:

Beck also said he predicted something like this would happen. "I warned that this what was coming in Europe . . . Last fall I said Europe is going to go into financial trouble and it's also going to go into problems with radical Islam."

All the way back in the fall of 2010 the Great Glenno predicted that Europe was "going to go into financial trouble"? Whatta guy! The mind boggles! For his next trick, Glenno will predict the winners of last year's World Series, Super Bowl, Stanley Cup, and NBA championship. And probably get them wrong too.

NOW AS FOR THOSE PROBLEMS WITH RADICAL
ISLAM THAT EUROPE WAS GOING TO GO INTO . . .

Do you suppose it would help if somebody who’s skilled at communicating with logic-challenged five-year-olds were to sit down with Glenno and try ever so patiently to explain to him what happened in Norway? The horrors that happened there weren't caused by "radical Islam." They were caused, as far as we can tell, by a mental defective who lives in a world of delusion permeated by lies and delusions about "radical Islam." Someone, in other words, apparently very like Glenn Beck.

These are people who don't know anything about any aspect of Islam, radical or otherwise, but who use their idea of "radical Islam" as a playground for their raging paranoid sociopathology and psychosis. Which is not to say that there is no such thing as Islamic fanaticism. Just that the people who blither endlessly about it 24/7 are as categorically ignorant about it as they are of everything else, which is hardly surprising given that, again, everything they know about it comes out of their butts.

WAS RUPERT SMILING AGAIN AS GLENNO TRIED
TO TALK HIS WAY OUT OF HIS MONDAY MESS?

Here's how the New York Daily News's Nina Mandell reported it:

A day after shocking the world by likening the victims of the Norway massacre to the Hitler youth, Glenn Beck took to the airwaves to defend his right to use Hitler comparisons -- and argued that any impediment on his freedom to do so, or criticism of such remarks, portends the Nazification of America.

Beck made the comments on Monday because the victims were attending political camp, and on Tuesday he complained on his radio show about the reaction whenever he makes a similar analogy.

The remarks came when he was making another Nazi comparison by discussing the similarities between the reaction to President Obama's policies and the reaction to Adolf Hitler's.

"Anybody who pointed it out were ridiculed and marginalized and were later killed," he said.

That's when his co-host jumped in to try to soften Beck's comparison by saying "and the point here is not to say gas chambers in Kansas."

But Beck wasn't about to stop -- and took offense to being limited on his Hitler comparisons.

"Don't start," the conservative pundit roared. "Don't even. Don't!

"If we're living in a society where we can't say X in the same paragraph as Y and not be told we are comparing it . . . we are going to be a society of gas chambers," he yelled. "If you can't have a logical conversation . . . the question is, does this country bypass the mainstream media faster than it's destroyed. I'm betting yes. It's called GBTV. You want to have a real conversation? Let's have a real conversation. But you have to bypass the mainstream media . . . enough is enough."

So just to be clear, Glenno, there are or aren't gas chambers in Kansas, or wherever, for people who have unfavorable reactions to President Obama's policies? Since we do that sort of thing a lot here at DWT, we'd kind of like to know. Oh, and by the way, while Glenno and the rest of the Loonified Righties are busily pulling bogus Nazi analogies out of their behinds, have they considered not going bonkers anytime anyone points out that they are the unconflicted and uncompromising heirs of Hitlerism? Their total ignorance and delusionality is an explanation, but not really an excuse.

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