Should Beck Be Suspended for His Comments About Soros 'Sending Jews to Death Camps'?

Glenn Beck does not like George Soros. We can be sure of that.

The radio host has done a slew of programs on the liberal billionaire, but lately has turned up the rhetoric. In a special three-part series this week Beck called Soros a "puppet master." But that's not the worst of it.

Soros is a Hungarian Jew who lived in Hungary during the Nazi occupation. He has been upfront about surviving deportation and eluding concentration camps. Decades after the war ended, he made his fortune in investments. He has heavily funded liberal causes, including the legalization of marijuana and health care reform.

Beck, in a recent radio program, focused on Soros' childhood in Hungary during the war. A Christian bureaucrat watched over Soros in order to protect him from the Nazis and deportation. When Soros was 14 he had to bring notices to Jewish families and report them to Hungary officials. The messages basically meant that the families were going to be deported, which Soros warned them about.

But Beck said there was something more nefarious going on:

"George Soros’s father asked a Christian in Hungary to adopt his son, make him his godson. And George Soros used to go around with this anti-Semite and deliver papers to the Jews, and confiscate their property, and then ship them off. And George Soros was part of it. He would help confiscate the stuff. It was frightening. Here’s a Jewish boy helping send the Jews to the death camps.

"I am certainly not saying George Soros enjoyed that, even had a choice -- I mean, he’s 14 years old. He was surviving. So I’m not making a judgment, that’s between him and God."

Abe Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League and a Holocaust survivor said Beck's statements were "completely
inappropriate, offensive and over the top."

Beck responded by saying he was "more supportive of Israel and the Jews than George Soros is."



And Fox News has his back.



Joel Cheatwood, senior vice president at Fox News, told The New York Times that the "information regarding Mr. Soros's experiences growing up were taken directly from his writings and from interviews given by him to the media, and no negative opinion was offered as to his actions as a child."