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Ärende: Beck has really stepped in it this time.
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I looked up the author of Beck's latest book club pick, and found out
all the information below in a couple minutes.

So this says that either Glenn Beck is simply a total moron, or like the
rabble-rousing anti-communists who were pro-Nazi during the 30's and
40's, Beck is a Jew-hating Nazi sympathizer.

Glenn Beck's new book club pick: Nazi sympathizer who praised Hitler and
denounced the Allies

On his radio show today, Glenn Beck heralded and promoted the work of
Nazi sympathizer Elizabeth Dilling, who spoke at rallies hosted by the
leading American Nazi group and praised Hitler. Today, Dilling is
heralded by White Supremacists and White Aryans who revere her
"fearless" work against Jewish people.

As Media Matters' Simon Maloy noted, Beck had kind words for Dilling's
1934 anti-communist book, The Red Network, saying: "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." Maloy noted that Dilling
has a long history of rabid anti-Semitism, such as calling President
Eisenhower "Ike the Kike" and labeling President Kennedy's New Frontier
program the "Jew frontier."

Professor Glen Jeansonne and writer David Luhrssen note in the
encyclopedia Women and War that Dilling wasn't only anti-Semitic, but a
sympathizer and supporter of the Nazis and Hitler:

When World War II began in 1939, Dilling was part of the national
network of anti-Semitics, anti-Communists, and Nazi sympathizers such as
Father Charles Coughlin, Reverend Gerald L. K. Smith, Reverend Gerald
Winrod, and William Dudley Pelley. Material generated by Nazi
organizations in Germany to inspire race hated and exploit
dissatisfaction in the United States found its way into Dilling's
publications. She spoke at rallies hosted by the leading U.S. Nazi
organization, the German-American Bund, and had traveled to Germany,
pronouncing the country as flourishing under Hitler.

Dilling called for appeasing Germany; she blamed the war on Jews and
Communists and accused the Roosevelt administration of being controlled
by Jewish Communists. ... After Pearl Harbor, Dilling resisted wartime
rationing and denounced the Allies.

So Dilling "spoke at rallies hosted by the leading U.S. Nazi
organization, the German-American Bund." Who's the German-American Bund?
Let Glenn Beck, Elizabeth Dilling fan, tell you:

BECK: The Bund gathered socially and ran Nazi camps. The camps were
advertised as summer retreats where you could escape the city, celebrate
German heritage, dance, drink, at places like Camp Nordlund in New
Jersey and Camp Siegfried in Long Island. The camps hidden as pro-
German/pro- American were attended by adults and families.

On the outside, they looked like any other camp. But the children were
indoctrinated in the ideals of Nazism, breeding young Americans to
become full-fledged Nazis. They marched, performed drills in Nazi
uniforms. And they were taught about their racial superiority, their
potential as Aryan youth.

As media scrutiny of the Bund increase, so did anti-Nazi protests,
including other Americans who hated the Nazi image and Jewish-American
veterans. Instead of quieting down, Bund leader Fritz Kuhn decided to
hold the largest rally in their history, Madison Square Garden. These
American Nazis showed their true colors, beating a Jewish protester who
rushed the stage. Kuhn and other speeches were nothing more than anti-
Semitic rants wrapped in the American flag protected by the First
Amendment. [Glenn Beck, March 11]

British Professors Christopher Partridge and Ron Geaves wrote that
Dilling was a "pro-Nazi anti-Semite" who disseminated Protocols of the
Learned Elders of Zion. The ADL describes Protocols as "a classic in
paranoid, racist literature. Taken by the gullible as the confidential
minutes of a Jewish conclave convened in the last years of the
nineteenth century, it has been heralded by anti-Semites as proof that
Jews are plotting to take over the world."

Dilling's Nazi sympathies have made her a cult hero among Aryan groups
and White Nationalists/Supremacists. For instance, the group Women for
Aryan Unity features Dilling in a publication whose purpose is "to
honour Aryan Women past and Present." Women for Aryan Unity writes of
Dilling:

She visited the Soviet Union in 1931, where she found impoverished
people, diseased and ill dressed. She saw genocide. Barely clothed
children, begging. Half empty stores. The houses were dingy; roads were
cracked and badly kept. She saw state-run orphanages and abortion was
rampant. The women of the Soviet Union were suffering badly; the
government was raising harassment, grueling work, and their children.
What Elizabeth was witnessing was the aftermath of Communism. The Soviet
Jews had torn down Russian churches. But she was no pacifist - she
believed it was time to fight the infidels.

She decided then to acquire as much knowledge about Communism as she
can, and use it as her weapon to fight it. She spoke to large audiences,
and did extensive research on Communism and the Jew. She wrote excerpts
exposing the Communists in the U.S. The lady was not afraid, and worked
endlessly for years to expose the followers of Communism. She spoke on
the radio, and met with men such as Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh,
Charles Hudson, and others who helped support her cause.

[...]

Many positive words come to mind as a description for such an admirable
woman, but I believe the gentleman she met in the dining room of that
small Denver hotel used the best word. The gentleman was University of
Illinois Professor, Dr. Revilo Oliver, and it was there, paying no mind
to anyone else present, she mouthed her famous words at her friend, "Do
I see an anti-Semite?" The word he used to describe Mrs. Dilling?
Fearless. My sentiments exactly.

Infamous racist David Duke, meanwhile, excerpts Dilling's work on his
website and states that as a 16-year old, he "found a book called The
Jewish Religion: Its Influence Today by Elizabeth Dilling."
Stormfront.org, which describes itself as a "community of White
Nationalists," features numerous posts in its forum praising Dilling.
"The Official Website of The Knights Party, USA" lists Dilling as one of
its "Important Christian Women in History" and praises her for "Knowing
the Jewish roots of Communism."

Jeansonne and Luhrssen conclude their summary of Dilling by writing that
she "had long been dismissed as a crank before her death in 1966." And
now half-a-century after her death, Dilling has found a new audience
thanks to Glenn Beck.

http://tinyurl.com/2b3bbg2

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