Norway responds to Glenn Beck when asked by a reporter

Beck said that the Labour party youth camp on the island, where 68 people were murdered, bore "disturbing" similarities to the Nazi party's notorious juvenile wing.

Beck, a multimillionaire darling of the Tea Party movement, said on his nationally-syndicated radio show: "There was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like, you know, the Hitler youth. I mean, who does a camp for kids that's all about politics? Disturbing."

Torbjørn Eriksen, a former press secretary to Jens Stoltenberg, Norway's prime minister, described the comment as "a new low" for the broadcaster, who has frequently been forced to apologise for offensive remarks.

"Young political activists have gathered at Utoya for over 60 years to learn about and be part of democracy, the very opposite of what the Hitler Youth was about," he told The Daily Telegraph. "Glenn Beck's comments are ignorant, incorrect and extremely hurtful."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/norway/8660986/Norway-shooting-Glenn-Beck-compares-dead-teenagers-to-Hitler-youth.html

Are they ever anything else?

Hateful, biased and not based on fact.

What a heinous thing to say about murder victims, and just think of their poor grieving survivors. Go to hell, you abominable idiot freak.

Who knew you could make millions feeding on ignorant rage?

Talk about scary...

Tampa Liberty School - a summer camp for kids aged 8-12 years old

The Tampa 912 Project is pleased to introduce the Tampa Liberty School. This part-time summer camp will meet from 9am to noon on July 11-15 at the Paideia School in Temple Terrace. Kids aged 8-12 years old will have fun while learning the principles of liberty, free markets, and limited government. They will also learn the values of personal responsibility, faith, courage, hard work, reverence and thrift.

http://www.meetup.com/tampa912/events/22130491/

...not

I'm pretty sure they could charge him for "inciting terrorism" and the US would have to comply with the extradition because its part of the "global war on terra".

I mean what fun is having a king if you can't have public shaming as corporal punishment.

http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1098113-Tea-Party-group-starts-summer-camp-in-tampa-florida


Think summer camp and most people tend to envision mobs of kids swimming in lakes, rowing canoes, or weaving friendship bracelets and singing campfire songs. But conservative activists in Florida have come up with a novel idea for a summer camp this year: Camp Tea Party. In what sounds eerily like indoctrination camp, a few Tampa kids will be spending part of their summer learning about the evils of European socialism and the Christian roots of the Constitution at the "Tampa Liberty School," a summer camp created by conservative activists from a Tampa 9/12 group. Their camp cheers will include such mottoes as "government can't force me to be charitable" and "I believe in God."

The camp is a hybrid of vacation Bible school and Glenn Beck. The organizers modeled the camp after one started in Kentucky last year that seems to have taken much of its curriculum straight from Beck's favorite writer, the late W. Cleon Skousen, author of some dubious and occasionally racist histories of the nation and the bestselling 5,000 Year Leap. In the Kentucky camp, kids learned, among other things, that the early American settlers starved to death because they were communists, a piece of Skousen dogma.

The camps are the brainchild of members of groups that sprung up a few years ago at the urging of Beck, who launched what he called the 9/12 project, symbolizing the day after the 9/11 attacks when the country put partisan differences aside and came together. Beck came up with nine principles and 12 values as the basis for the organization. The 9/12 groups have been associated with the tea party movement, but they also tend to have more religious undertones than their tea party compatriots. Many of their members are Mormons, like Beck and Skousen. Still, they are supportive of the tea party's new focus on the next generation.

The Florida activists are not alone in trying to foist their agenda on America's youth. Organizers of the Tea Party Patriots organization have recently urged activists to lobby public schools to teach the Constitution using materials created by a group Skousen founded. The Tampa Liberty School founders say they hope to expand their summer camp offering into local public schools as well, according to the St. Petersburg Times. "We've had classes for adults," Karen Jaroch, who chairs the Tampa 912 Project, told the paper. "Now we want to introduce a younger generation to economics and history, but in a fun way."

as 'a new low'.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/26/glenn-beck-norwegian-dead-hitler

Glenn Beck, the rightwing US broadcaster and Tea Party favourite, has compared those who were massacred on the Norwegian island of Utøya to the Nazi party's youth wing.

A campaign to pressure advertisers to boycott the pundit's daily slot had been gathering pace, while Beck was embroiled in battles erupting from his frequently aired conspiracy theories involving individuals ranging from the financier George Soros to Barack Obama.

However, his latest comments about the "disturbing" nature of political youth camps may come as a surprise to Beck's followers in the Tea Party movement.

The anti-tax, anti-immigration movement has been holding summer camps in states including Florida and Missouri where children have been taught a curriculum based on God, the US constitution and "the defence of economic liberty".

Hence the "multimillionaire" status of this despicable person.

Both Limbaugh and Beck will do this for publicity, they have this huge
need to have their name in the daily conversation, good, bad, or indifferent.

beck is a shit stain - if it weren't for his millions, he'd be nothing but the creepy old man drooling on a park bench...

:puke:

This isnt available in English yet. i'll translate.

http://www.dagbladet.no/2011/07/25/nyheter/utenriks/usa... /

US media is filled with material on the terrorist attacks in Norway. The conservative and controversial commentator Glenn Beck used his national radio show to compare the Labour Youth with Hitlers nazi youth, Hitlerjugend.

(You know the beck quotes)


- Political scientist and Labour Party member Frank Aarebrot is upset when he hears Becks statements.

- He is a fascist. Only a fascist would say something like that. The man is swine, Aarebrot says of the commentator who until recently had a very popular talkshow on the large newschannel Fox News, and is often seen to be an opinionmaker in conservative republican circles.

- Beck is a vulgar propagandist who is trying to surpass Joseph Goebbels, Aarebrot says.
- The AUF is a free and democratic youth organization like any other.

He thinks Bevks statements is a frightening example of how American voters are misled.

It is frightening that there are people who are doing these kinds of awful fairytale stories. The worst is that some will believe this is objective reporting.

The political scientist says the claims are so upsetting that the Norwegian embassy in Washington D.C. should send out a press release stating what kind of organization the AUF is.

- Even if it is not common practice,they should do it in this situation.


Posted by Lars77 on DU

Because we never will solve the Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity "putrid, festering shit-stain" on our public airways until we hold folks like Premiere Radio accountable.

CONTACT INFO FOR PREMIERE RADIO. These are the "ass-hats" that give Beck a forum to spew his bile. Addresses provided if we want to gather a few hundred folks at each office to block the entrances.

Premiere Radio Networks Offices

Main Office: 15260 Ventura Blvd. Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 (818) 377-5300

Atlanta: 1819 Peachtree Road Suite 635 Atlanta, GA 30309 (404) 870-5070
Boston: 20 Park Plaza Suite #220 Boston, MA 02116 (617) 213-7215
Charlotte: 801 Woodridge Center Dr., Charlotte, NC 28217 (704) 714-9444
Chicago: 875 N. Michigan Ave, Suite 1450, Chicago, IL 60611 (312) 266-3866
Dallas: 14001 N. Dallas Parkway, Suite 500 Dallas,TX 75240 (972) 239-6220
Detroit: 27675 Halsted Road, Farmington Hills, MI 48331 (248) 324-5444
New York: 1270 Avenue Of the Americas New York, NY 10020 (212) 445-3900

No surprise, I suppose.

This is just another little comment to that aim.

Just had to pass that one on.

My first reaction was to stomp it. But then I reminded myself that there are even lower life forms that have radio and TV empires. Better to show respect for that that's more respectable.

welcome to America where people's minds are poisoned by Beck's stupidity and bullshit on a daily basis. Good for Norway and not getting 9/11 fever and wayyyy over-reacting the way we did.

:hug: So so SORRY!!!

This oaf got on the air on a major "news" channel!?!

on so many different levels, it's difficult to know where to start. The bodies of these children are barely cold, and Beck is already trying to use them to score some kind of pathetic point.

Norway was invaded and occupied by actual Nazis. Years ago, when I was in Oslo, I visited the Norwegian Resistance Museum. It was the Norwegians who gave us the word "quisling" to describe a traitor willing to sell out his own people in the interests of a depraved ideology.

How about we start calling pathetic, heartless provocateurs "becks?"

He calls Beck a social critic devoid of social awareness and critical thinking. Link:http://www.youtube.com/user/theamazingatheist?blend=1&ob=4#p/u

...dumbfuck deserves to be smacked again by Lady Karma with a 2 x 4.

That's one of the big conservative papers in the UK.

At least on their editorial page. They've always been really good at reporting the news fairly.

But first I need to get some Maple Leafs for my bags and clothes.

America is just too stupid, racist and violent to want to be seen as one abroad.

Asshats like Beck foster this anti American view, yet he is never on the receiving end of the reactions to his swill!

Oh, and fuck you Lee Greenwood!

He does a good job of it too.

is to keep the country divided, that #fuckyouwashington thing was starting to pick up steam right before this happened. :yoiks:

Please don't judge our entire country because one, dry-drunk, sociopath with a microphone
spouts off his nonsense.

We are all appalled.

We all find Glenn Beck creepy and most of us are embarrassed that we share the same country!

We're so sorry!!

You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_N._Welch

I didn't think anything he could utter would make me cringe more than before. Hearing him speak those words made me literally sick to my stomach!

It's what he does. Up is down, black is white, etc., destruction of the truth.

I hope Norwegians and all the world join in ending Beck's era on the media. Next, Limbaugh.

It's nteresting - that none of the media called the Norway attack(s) a massacre of liberals. That's what it was.

yes they do, and all LOCAL bizs that sponsor his radio station, or university and pro sports teams that give community credibility to and bring in ad revenue, need to be SHAMED until they leave him-

i suspect some of the stations that play him broadcast university and pro sports

he needs to retire, like limbaugh and hannity

It is disgusting -- totally inaccurate and heartless and cruel. Total lack of empathy for dozens of children killed by a mass murderer.