Beck's Soros smear is "totally off limits and over the top."

[DearAbby]

Anti-Defamation League Director Abe Foxman: Beck's Soros smear is "totally off limits and over the top."

November 11, 2010 11:31 am ET by Media Matters staff

Glenn Beck's two-part attack on George Soros has been steeped in anti-semitic imagery and stereotypes. But smearing Soros on his radio show, Beck went so far as to suggest that Soros helped "send the Jews" to "death camps" during the Holocaust.

In a November 11 Jewish Week article, prominent Jewish leaders and Holocaust survivors condemned Beck's use of the Holocaust to attack Soros:

The ADL's Abe Foxman is also a child survivor who lived only because his parents turned him over to his Catholic nanny.

"Look, I spit on Jews when I was six years old," Foxman told me. "Does that make me an anti-Semite?"

The issue of the Shoah "is so sensitive that I'm not even sure Holocaust survivors themselves are willing to make such judgments," Foxman went on "For a political commentator or entertainer to have the audacity to say, there's a Jewish boy sending Jews to death camps, that's horrific. It's totally off limits and over the top."

Beck's comments "were either out of total ignorance or total insensitivity," he said.

Elan Steinberg, vice president of the The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants, called the Beck accusations "monstrous; you don't make such accusations without proof, and I have seen no such proof."

Beck's charges, he said, "go to the heart of the instrumentalization and trivialization of the Holocaust."

More:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201011110003

[valerief]

1. Beck plays with his poop. He belongs in a hospital, not on teevee. nt

[LeftinOH]

2. Soros was born in August, 1930; he turned 15 a few months after WWII ended in Europe.

Therefore- Beck is still a dumbass.

[OHdem10]

3. I wish all Democratic Netroots Websites could get together and

put out an to tun everywhere refuting this trash.

[Kalyke]

4. What did everyone think would happen when showed up dressed like this?

[tishaLA]

5. "instrumentalization and trivialization of the Holocaust" is Beck and the TPers ...

in a nutshell.

[Jester Messiah]

6. Here's hoping Soros sues him for everything he's got. [nt]

[ladjf]

7. A "smear" from Beck is a compliment. nt

[WingDinger]

10. Except you become the moral equivalent of an abortion doctor, and they're nuts!

[ladjf]

11. There is no connect between Becks comments and reality. nt

[WingDinger]

14. There have been murders, and unknown numbers of attempts or plans.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

12. Huh? Abortion doctors are nuts? Please elaborate.

[gratuitous]

8. Beck has Soros confused with the Bush family

Understandable, given Beck's usual state of confusion regarding reality, but it's actually the Bush family who helped send Jews and others to death camps in Nazi Germany, and profited quite handsomely from their dealings with the Nazis.

[MatthewStLouis]

9. He's just mad there are a few people with money who don't support the corporate republicans.

I actually had the misfortune to see a couple minutes of his rant; kinda like a car wreck. He is so incredibly smarmy. Why would anybody like this guy?

[Scurrilous]

13. K & R

:thumbsup: