The Auschwitz Promotional Tour

Jun 9th, 2011

"I'm going to take you to Auschwitz, live... you can sign up now at GBTV.com"

Well, I guess there really is no limit to what the Crying Man-Baby will do for a buck. What better way for Glenn Beck to hype up enthusiasm for his new subscription-only service, GBTV, than to bring his unique brand of rabid conspiracy theories to...

Auschwitz?!?! 

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the man who has called Holocaust survivor and Jewish-American George Soros a "spooky dude" and a "puppet master" plans to use the the memory of an exterminated people for media gain. The fact that it wasn't long ago everyone from ADL head Abraham Foxman to Michele Goldberg to Ron Chisud accused Beck of outright anti-Semitism seems to have escaped him altogether.

The full text of his remarks from 6/7/2011(via)
"BECK: I am going to take a tour, and I will announce who I am going on this tour with. But I think it is pretty stunning who's hopefully taking me on this tour. I have never wanted to go because I know the story. I - this is going to be a train wreck, an absolute train wreck. But I think it is important, it's an important part of the story of 8-24. I'm going to Poland in a few weeks and I'm going to take you to Auschwitz, live, as I am taken on a tour of Auschwitz, as I prepare mentally and prepare the story for 8-24. I don't even know what that's going to be like. I have no idea what that's going to be like.

But there are going to be things, live events, including 8-24, with behind the scenes access, documentaries that you won't see anywhere else, interviews and things with world leaders, right there as they happen. It's going to be quite a wild summer. And you can sign up now at GBTV.com."

On False Equivalence...

Jan 14th, 2011

As conservative writers from Malkin to Erickson have not only refused to address the merits of having a discussion on hateful rhetoric and weaponized language but have doubled down by accusing the Left of being "worse," it's notable how very easy it is to poke holes in their arguments of equivalence.

For the record, none of the defeated Democratic candidates in the last election marched their supporters into confrontations with Republican victors while their supporters shouted the word "JEW!"

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I figured that responses from the mainstream Right to this video on Lawrence O'Donnell's Last Word would have at least a trace of disavowal. I was wrong. Over at NRO, Jim Geraghty makes excuses for the racists. "We hear no threats on the tape," he writes. 


It's notable that one of the Popaditch supporters who was in the crowd is a white supremacist so extreme he has even been disavowed by Stormfront. Is it a stretch to suggest that there was something in Popaditch's rhetoric that this man found attractive?