Glenn Beck Endorses Racist Nazi Book
This story has been making the rounds…..
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.”
Pretty serious stuff. Here’s some more information on Elizabeth Dilling
The author of four political books, Dilling claimed that Marxism and “Jewry” were synonymous.[3] She believed that Francisco Franco was a brave Christian.[4] She claimed many prominent figures were Communist sympathizers, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Mahatma Gandhi, Franz Boas and Sigmund Freud.[5]
It’s easy to see why Beck would be attracted to her writings. She seems like she might have been an early prototype for the Birch Society.
Here’s the book that Beck is recommending to his readers: The Red network: a “who’s who” and handbook of radicalism for patriots By Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Dilling
Page 36……
….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 backwards. The Red 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 have given them in Africa today.
She speaks against race mixing on page 37, citing a dubious quote from Booker T Washington. Somehow I suspect may be bogus but it wouldn’t surprise me. A black man advocating race mixing in his era would likely be arrested or killed.
Beck and his audience would also love her anti-science attack on Einstein. She uses the same tactics used by today’s creationists and global warming skeptics by taking out of context quotes from reputable scientists and mixing them with quotes from complete quacks. On page 49 she adds her own unenlightened spin…..
While I am unable to understand the scientific value of the Relativity theory, I can understand the “relativity” of Einstein to his daughter who married a Russian and lived in Russia following her marriage. I can also see the “relativity” of the atheist book he endorses and the “Down with war, up with Revolution” pacifism of the War Resisters International, of which he is a leader, to the communist Congress at Moscow, which he attended (he appears in a photograph published by the Better America Federation),….. (etc)
She goes into great detail about secret connections of groups and people, all of which are plotting for socialism. Just like Acorn, Obama and Van Jones are today.
Winguts are reading this stuff, I suggest you do too.