Glenn Beck Compares Dead Teenagers to Hitler Youth
26th July 2011
(Don’t you just love the way they picked a photograph that makes it appear as if he’s wearing a red armband, just like — wait for it — the Nazi party members used to do? And this is the Telegraph, not your Usual Suspect. Pure class, the media.)
Glenn Beck has a problem, and I don’t see that it’s a problem he’ll be able to fix. However much he may have noticed this resemblance — and there is a resemblance, although (considering the ideologies involved) I’d have characterized it as ‘Young Pioneers’ rather than ‘Hitler Youth’ — and however reasonable it may be to mention this in private conversation, he ought to have known that to say it in public would be … unhelpful, let us say.
Now, if he had been a commentator on CNN or MSNBC positing a resemblance of a gathering of Young Republicans to Hitler Youth, nobody would have blinked an eye. But that’s the world we live in, and Beck has been in that world long enough to realize it, and to learn to deal with it. Sadly, he hasn’t.