Beck's Latest Rant: Obama Like Hussein, Hitler

Host isn't suggesting Americorps plan makes him a fascist, but...

By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 28, 2009 9:23 AM CDT

(Newser) – Glenn Beck may have reached a new low last night when he implied President Obama’s plans to use AmeriCorps make him the equivalent of a fascist dictator, Gawker reports. One guest, Vets for Freedom vice chairman David Bellavia, fanned the flames by saying, “I’m not comparing my president to Saddam Hussein or Hitler,” then promptly compared Obama’s plans to Hussein’s creation of a group of loyalists in 1991.

“You said, ‘I’m not comparing,’ but you are,” Beck responded. “This is what Hitler did with the SS. He had his own people, he had the brownshirts. This is what Saddam Hussein—so, you are comparing that.” The Fox News host later insisted, “I’m not suggesting anything, I’m asking questions.” Beck's resigned conclusion: “This is what I've been warning for a very long time.”

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hwoodude

Sep 2, 2009 1:05 AM CDT

Amazing....all media hungry Glenn "Wreck" wants is attention, rating points, listeners...M O N E Y ! He gets this through his disjointed, hateful, rantings that delight the numerous right wing knuckle draggers that seem to inhabit America. Yes, we all have freedom of speech, as does "Wreck." In a way it's a "blessing" as its horribly obvious and public the hate and twisted "logic" "Wreck" and others daily spew out. American desperately needs to seek solutions to our many problems that unite not separate. President Obama....called a racist by the likes of the Pilsbury Dough Boy?, hate monger Glenn "Wreck?" Incredible!

odowd80

Sep 1, 2009 7:09 AM CDT

godawgs=PWNED by his own ideology

Doctor-Zaius

Sep 1, 2009 6:36 AM CDT

Nah, I just figured you hate the troops, America, Mom's apple pie and Chevrolet.

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Beck's Latest Rant: Obama Like Hussein, Hitler