Should Beck Be Suspended for His Comments About Soros 'Sending Jews to Death Camps'?
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2010/11/12 18:00:00
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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."
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."
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+39I watch Glenn Beck everyday. He quite clearly explains WHY Americans should be proud to be Americans. Scum like Soros are using the billions he has made off Americans to destroy America. The problem is that Americans do not realize how evil this man really is.
Stem cells copy the cells next to them.. In HIS case that would ONLY make him WORSE then he is now...
60 minutes.. they have NEVER exactly been accused of being a Right Wing Ideological propaganda center..
I keep saying to myself not to read this page so early because it ruins my day.
That says it all.
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If you watch the show at all, you would realize that he invites debate all the time. If fact he invites the Whitehouse daily to call him anytime his information is incorrect. As of today the phone has not rung one time. He also asked George S to come on the show to debate. Unfortunately, no takers there either.
Maybe you should call into his radio show or ask him for a guest appearance by you so you can have at it.
History has proven time and time again that Socialism does not work. I for one do not want to be a puppet on a Soros string.
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."