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Saturday, June 05, 2010

"People Who Were Doing What We're Doing Now"

Media Matters
On his radio show today [yesterday, June 4], 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… 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." … Dilling has a long history of rabid anti-Semitism, such as calling President Eisenhower "Ike the K[**]e" and labeling President Kennedy's New Frontier program the "Jew frontier."

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