Beck’s Holocaust comments prompt Fox News meeting

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Fox News host Glenn Beck is known for generating controversy on television and the radio. But some Jewish leaders recently felt Beck went too far, and they made their grievances known to Fox News chief executive Roger Ailes.
Simon Greer, chief executive of Jewish Funds for Justice, told The Upshot that when Greer approached them, Ailes and senior vice president Joel Cheatwood agreed that Beck crossed the line in comparing Greer's worldview to that of the Nazis and promised to speak with Beck about the matter.
Two days later, Greer said he received a handwritten letter from Beck.

The Upshot learned of the July 26 meeting and Fox's response to Beck's comments through an email Greer sent to key supporters and allies of his organization. Greer confirmed the authenticity of the email, which was passed along to The Upshot by a source.

Greer's organization has clashed with Beck before. In March, the JFJ launched a project to send haiku responses to Beck over his criticism of religious social-justice groups. So there was already bad blood before the controversial remarks were made a couple months later.

On the air, Beck has railed against various social-justice organizations, arguing that focusing on the greater good can hinder individual freedom. For Beck, that worldview creeps dangerously close to communism, socialism, or fascism. As a conservative libertarian, Beck routinely warns against government overreach.
So, given the history between the two sides, Greer's column for the Washington Post's "On Faith" section unsurprisingly ignited the debate once again. Political philosophy aside, Greer's lead sentence may have been enough to set the host off: "Mr. Beck, you are a con man and America is not buying it."
In the piece, Greer argued that "government is one way by which we care for our neighbors, and my tradition tells me to care for my neighbor as I care for myself."

"Government makes our country function," Greer wrote. "To put God first is to put humankind first, and to put humankind first is to put the common good first."
Beck disagreed.
"This leads to death camps," Beck said on May 28. "A Jew, of all people, should know that. This is exactly the kind of talk that led to the death camps in Germany — put humankind and the common good first." (Listen to the clip below, via liberal watchdog Media Matters).

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[sakabatou]

1. Someone give me a clue-by-four

[Enthusiast]

4. "clue-by-four"

:rofl:

[MadMaddie]

2. Beck has no shame.

[Make7]

3. "He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good."

Is that the kind of thinking that leads to death camps, Glenn?