Libertarian Reason magazine joins growing chorus condeming Beck's Soros attacks

Source: Media Matters

Beck's three-day attack on Jewish financier George Soros has been widely criticized by Jewish leaders, Holocaust survivors and, most recently, Commentary magazine which describes itself as "the flagship of neoconservatism." Critics have been particularly concerned with Beck's false smears related to Soros' actions as a 14-year-old Hungarian Jew during the Holocaust. Beck suggested that Soros was a Holocaust collaborator, even going so far as to suggest that Soros helped "send the Jews" to "death camps."

Libertarian Reason magazine joined the growing condemnation of Beck's false attacks in a November 12 post on its blog, Hit & Run. Reason's editor-in-chief Matt Welch decried Beck's attacks on George Soros as a "ridiculous misreading" which "sets back the cause of human understanding." Welch went on to criticize Beck's suggestion that Soros' "actions were worthy of regret" as a 14-year-old during the Holocaust, writing of such attacks, "I am constantly surprised by how quickly people are willing to toss decency and basic rationality out the window when discussing a gate figure from the other team."

Welch also said he was "inclined to agree" with "critics" who "are describing characterizations of Soros' wartime activities as factually incorrect," but noted "even if the descriptions were 100 percent accurate and proportional, I would find" Beck's comments "above appalling on a basic human level."

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I know that Reason is repugnant, but the bottom line is that Beck - to the right of the John Birch Society - must be exposed in every venue possible. He is even more disgusting than Limbaugh in one respect (and only one) - Beck is actively calling for killings, and he is obvious about it, if covert. His code words fool nobody.

If a person didn't know better (and most wouldn't) they'd have been scared and manipulated into hating Soros.

I picked up a copy of Reason a few weeks ago, just out of curiosity. Couldn't make my way through the garbage. Made me want to wretch.

That said, this is what their "movement" has wrought - hate, every man for himself, and hypocrisy (I'm all for small government except when large government benefits me). Disgusting.

Seriously, CNN fired Rick Sanchez for making moderately anti-Semitic comments about Jon Stewart. Does Glenn Beck get fired for his comments?

Oh wait, he works for Fox news. Of course not.

I think open blood sacrifices of babies would be allowed as long as his ratings didn't dip.

He'll attack anybody about anything if he thinks it may give him some advantage.

on the internets, it leads back to Beckks website.

It only remains to be seen when - and if - the propagators of the lies, will be found out.