It seems Glenn Beck can't stay away from controversy. He is in the middle of it yet again, with his endorsement of a 65-year-old book that many say spews racist and anti-semitic venom.
"The Red Network: A 'Who's Who' and Handbook of Radicalism for Patriots" was written in 1936 by a woman named Elizabeth Dilling, who was well known for her anti-communist writings. But she was also a Nazi sympathizer and no friend to the Jews -- or blacks for that matter.
Here is a passage from her book where she writes about black people in America:
The colored people are a sincerely religious race. As long as they stayed in Africa un-Christianized, they remained, as did pagan white men, savages. Their pagan brothers in Africa today are savages, while in a comparatively few years, under the opportunities of the American government and the inspiration of Christianity, the American Negroes have acquired professions, property, banks, homes, and produced a rising class of refined, home loving people. This is far more remarkable than that many Negroes are still backward. The Reds play upon the Negroes' love of their own people and represent them as persecuted in order to inflame them against the very white people who have in reality given the colored race far greater opportunities than their fellow negroes would give them in Africa today. [Pages 35-36]
Here, Dilling chats about the Jewish role in Communism in her beloved Nazi Germany:
National movement for boycotting Germany, supposedly because of its anti-Jewish activities, organized by Samuel Untermyer of N.Y. City. No one who treasures American freedom wants fascism or Hitlerism for America, but it is only fair to note that Germany had 6,000,000 Communists bent on Red terrorist revolution and that Russian Jews had made themselves prominent in the Red movement, and that Naziism has directed its attacks more against conspiring, revolutionary Communist Jews, than against nationalist German Jews who aided Germany during the war; if it has discriminated against the innocent also, it has been with no such ferocity and loss of life as the planned and imminent Communist revolution would have wreaked upon the German population, had it been successful as in Russia. Those making altruistic appeals for human rights for Jews in Germany, should at the same time raise their voices urging boycott of atheist Russia in behalf of its persecuted Christians and millions of "liquidated" starved Ukrainians, in order to escape the suspicion that they are protesting for Communist rather than "human" rights. [Page 138]
Now here is Beck, on his radio show on June 4th, heaping praise on this book:
This is a book, The Red Network. This came in from 1936. People -- McCarthy was absolutely right. Now he may not -- he may have used bad tactics or whatever, but he was absolutely right. This is a book -- and I'm a getting a ton of these -- from people who were doing what we're doing now. We now are documenting who all of these people are. Well, there were Americans in the first 50 years of this nation that took this seriously, and they documented it. And this is from 1936, and in it, it talks about -- it's the who's who and handbook for radicalism for patriots. This is "Who are the communists in America?" The overwhelming number of communists -- labor unions. The other thing that they talked about was, in this book that I was reading last night, they said, you know, there's this teachers union thing, but you really want to know who the real radical communists are? The NEA. That's 1936. And they're talking about this new organization that is really nasty, that you really have to look out for. The NEA. But everything this book has talked about they have mainstreamed.
Since Beck mentioned the book, he says he's been inundated with emails from people calling him an anti-semite and a Nazi. On his show on Monday, Beck claimed he didn't know anything about Dilling's Nazi-loving ways, just her anti-communism views, with which he says he agrees.
because you must know the enemy in order to oppose him, not because I want those ideals translated into action.
"The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" doesn't glorify Nazism, it explains it, warns against the signs of its rise, and illustrates how easy it is to fall into error when individual rights are subverted in the name of order and the State.
We freedom advocates are very aware of the Judenrat, the Jewish leaders who helped the SS meet Nazi quotas for Jews going to the camps in hopes that they would be executed last. If condemning them as traitors is anti-Semitic, then PETA condemning KFC is anti-chicken.
The biggest news in cable news this year is the remarkable rise of Glenn Beck at Fox. His Friday night special drew huge numbers and leapfrogged his show above long-time #2 Sean Hannity. What was CNN thinking when the let this guy get away? As for the rest of the cable news pack, some were up a little, some were down a little. And Larry King continues to be CNN’s last man standing. When Lou Dobbs left, CNN's ratings dropped 39% in one year. So who does MSNBC have? Nobody except Keith Olbermann who has the contagious virus going around MSNBC called the "Maher Syndrome." Keith's commentary never included a smidgeon of intelligence but now it's even worse, he now sounds like a cross between Mel Gibson and Lawrence O'Donnell. As the syndrome progresses it will cause Keith to fall into the "Chris Matthews phase." This will lead him to believe that he is his own guest, in other words, he asks and answers every question.This will lead Larry to start spitting when he pronounces certain words, it’s similar to Sylvester the Cat's lisp. Sylvester's lisp of course was much worse but at least the people he talked to stayed dry. The next phase is the Dylan Rattigan phase and he will find himself starting to spend time in Hugh Hefner's grotto and believing the women when they tell him "you were great" or he will start believing the info coming out of MSNBC. The last stage of the syndrome is called the Bill Maher psycho phase. This phase will start with an eye "tremor" or eye itch, similar to the one that Inspector Dryfus had (Inspector Clouseau's enemy) in the Pink Panther movies . The angrier you get, the more it twitches. The more it twitches the angrier you get. And of course with this last phase, he will start believing the notes the Progressives have him reading.
The party's platform should have appealed strongly to blacks , intellectuals, and labor union members, but the support given them by the Communist Party was used against them by both major parties. The progressives maintained their right to accept support from any group. This was high-principled but politically fatal. Wallace received only 2.4 percent of the popular vote and carried no state. In 1950, the party opposed America's decision to fight in Korea. Wallace split with the party's leadership on the issue and resigned from the party. The Progressive Party disappeared after the 1952 election . Only time will tell if another progressive party will be formed.
Progressives destroyed the bottom rung of the ladder of economic success by corrupting a public school system in which half of the students never graduate and half of those wo do are fundamentally illiterate. Every major inner city in America from, Chicago, Detroit, Oakland, St. Louis, every school board and school district, every city council in those inner cities is 100% controlled bt the Democrat Party and progressives and has been for 100 years. Everything that is wrong with the inner cities of America that policy can affect Democrats and progressives are responsible for. They have their boot heels on the necks of poor black and hispanic children all across America and are crushing them every day.
The Democratic Party and Progressivism is the most powerful force obstructing opportunity for America's poor and minority. It oppresses them with their creation of the modern welfare state. Progressives engineered a welfare system that destroyed the inner city black family and created a vast "under-class" so mired in the culture of dependency and povert that they may never escpae.
Progressives are the most racist bunch of monsters in history . Margret Sanger is the champion of the progressives. She was such a nasty racist with her evil eugenics programs. Hitler modeled his eugenics programs on the American Progressive Eugenics Movement of the early 20th century. Her whole purpose for abortion was to rid society of what she called the less desirable minorities . Her legacy lives on in the racist fact that children of color are the victims of 2/3 of all the abortions committed since Roe v Wade. Black women , who make up only 12% of the population have had over 40% of the abortions ever committed. They are nearly 4 times more likely than their caucasion counterparts to get abortion, just as progressive darling Margret Sanger planned.
For decades now, the 'progressives' ( liberals or 'The Left') in our country have been propelled by two powerful influences: Saul Alinsky and Cloward and Piven. (Of course, Marx and Engels figure in, too, but why state the obvious?) In 1966, Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven authored an article in "The Nation " magazine that has been followed as closely as a blueprint by organizations such as ACORN and, dare I say, the Democrat Party (at least the present-day incarnation of the Democrat Party). Incredibly, we are seeing the fruits of that seditious strategy in the news everyday. And I say 'seditious' advisedly, because the end result will be the capitulation of our national sovereignty and way of life to those who seek to control us and rule over us.
Then, the final straw: The president of peace, just a few months after narrowly winning re- election , entered America into World War I. It was billed as the war to end all wars — because progressives thought they had the solution to world conflict — and brought us the League of Nations. Another failure. The reason is that America’s original Progressives were also its original, big- government liberals . Most people point to the New Deal era as the source of big government and the welfare state that we have today. While this is perfectly accurate, it is important to understand that the principles of the New Deal did not originate in the New Deal; rather, they came from the Progressives, who had dominated American politics and intellectual cultural a generation prior to the New Deal. We have no less an authority on this connection than Franklin Roosevelt himself. When FDR campaigned in 1932, he pointed to the Progressives – and in particular to Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson – as the source of his ideas about government. In terms of the personalities who made up the Progressive movement, some are familiar to us and others are less so. The movement was comprised of well known politicians like Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt; but it was also comprised of intellectuals and writers who are less well known but who have been very influential in America. There were folks like John Dewey, who was America’s public philosopher for much of the early 20th century. Even less well known was Herbert Croly, but Croly was highly influential, since he founded and was the first editor of The New Republic – which became the main organ of Progressive opinion in the United States, and is still one of the most important journals on the Left today. I should add here that Woodrow Wilson actually fell into both of these categories – he was both a well known politician and president, but also was, for decades prior to his entry into politics, a prominent intellectual (a college professor and president of Princeton) who wrote many books and influential articles.
J-Jammmer is correct, Glenn Beck was only assoiciating the books views on communism- you know- the socal structure closely associated with socialism?
American liberals are descendants of the early 20th-century Progressives, who in turn shared intellectual roots with fascists. Both fascists and liberals seek to use the state to solve the problems of modern society . Many fascists, including Mussolini (but not Hitler) started as socialists -- though almost none started as liberals, who stood for representative government and mild reformism. Moreover, fascism's combination of nationalism, statism, discipline and a promise to "transcend" class conflict was initially popular in many countries. Though fascism was always less popular in democracies such as the United States, some American intellectuals did flirt with its ideas. Fascist party programs contained active social welfare policies to be implemented through a corporatist state, so there were indeed overlaps with Progressives and with New Dealers. But so, too, were there overlaps with the world's Social Democrats and Christian Democrats, as well as with the British Conservative Party from Harold Macmillan in the 1930s to Prime Minister Ted Heath in the 1970s, and even with the Eisenhower and Nixon administrations. Many on the left today call themselves “progressive,” and they do so not just because it’s a nicer way of saying “liberal,” but also because they very much intend to revive the political principles of America’s original Progressives, from the Progressive Era of the 1880s through World War I. In response to repeated bank runs in the early 1900s, progressives created the Federal Reserve System. This flew right in the face of Thomas Jefferson, who argued that the "Bank of the United States is one of the most deadly hostility existing, against the principles and form of our Constitution. "It didn't take long to prove Jefferson right, as the worst financial disaster in U.S. history happened largely because of the Fed's continual contraction of the money supply before and during the Great Depression. Progressives redistributed the wealth by implementing a "progressive" income tax sold to America as something that would lower tariffs and be a tax on the wealthy. Woodrow Wilson led passage of the Revenue Act in 1913. The rates only lasted four years, then all Americans had their taxes jacked up and they haven't come down since. The bottom tax bracket hasn't paid single digit percentages in taxes in over 60 years. They introduced the first nanny state efforts in 1919 with Prohibition. They convinced the nation to ban a drink.
..to do with black people or Jews. Pointless complaining.
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
Mark Berman finally realizes Glenn Beck is a crazy person. Good for him..?
I have not read this book , but I feel it a little unfair to cherry pick statements from any source to give an audience an overall feel for someone's character. Ms. Dilling may well have also been a crazy person,but slandering her for being a Nazi sympathizer is a little harsh, considering the year was 1936 and hindsight is 20/20. Of course, that was the same year America took a stand against the Nazis by boycotting the Olympics..oh wait, we totally didn't. But then, Americans did take a stand against the insane eugenics movement that was inflaming Germany at that time. Oh no, wait..we participated in that movement for decades. Sorry..
Even her sentiment on Blacks isn't that radical for her day. Sure, we could all moralize the situation by saying things like " racism is never acceptable" but then, I don't think any of us were taught the heartwarming "White man is superior" philosophy all throughout grade school .
To take someone's standard viewpoint for the time, then superimpose it on today's society and call it radical without a single thought for context is about as useful as a cat flap in an elephant tent. There isn't a thing original or refreshing about it.
Speaking of which, in context, this is probably one of the least controversial things ever backed by Glenn Beck.
And if anyone knows anything about Charlie Chaplin he was someone that was against Hitler way before it was the American thing to do..and at parties he'd speak out while others would speak for him and what he did for Germany.
I think people fail to understand the context of many things and then use their NOW to show how people in the past were stupid That's like stating why didn't people know about the Earth going around the sun ? It's so obvious NOW that it does. Without even thinking of what technology they had then and what they lacked elsewhere to even get a good understanding of Space..that statement is stupid.
You can't judge people based on what you live like in America if they live in an African country. That's because their context of good and bad are different because they have a lower daily wage and appreciate different things. Same goes for times. What was appreciated 50 years is not appreciated today.
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
and just flip thru the pages and read bits here and there and then promote in in your show
bastard is what I call him. I only know about him because Jon Stewart parodies him from time to time.