Glenn Beck compares dead teenagers to Hitler youth.

**billynomates** · 07-25-2011, 10:56 PM

Norway shooting: Glenn Beck compares dead teenagers to Hitler youth
Glenn Beck, the leading Right-wing American broadcaster, has prompted outrage after comparing the teenage victims of the Utoya Island massacre to the Hitler Youth.
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."

The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, a Washington-based campaign group, said the remark by Beck, a free agent after being forced out of the Fox News channel earlier this year, was "absolutely disgusting"
Beck's controversial statements and conspiracy-filled rants have made him one of the most divisive figures in US politics and media in recent years

Before any Liberal posts this as if Beck echoes the 'Right's' sentiments I think everyone here would agree they this statement repugnant.

**Moab** · 07-26-2011, 03:25 PM

It never ceases to amaze me ... the likes of Glen Beck.

The murderer was much like the troubled youth who shot Gifford's and got his crazy ideas about the left from right winged nut-cakes like Beck here in America..

Meanwhile, Mazyar Keshvari, a spokesman for Norway's Progress Party — which is conservative but within the political mainstream — said that the suspect was a paying member of the party's youth wing from 1999 to 2004.

**skyguy2007** · 07-26-2011, 05:27 PM

His statement stirred the pot, it's all he wanted...rather simple.

**motherfunky** · 07-26-2011, 05:45 PM

To be fair it is a bit creepy to have a summer camp run by a Political Party, as well as being a little off topic Beck wasnt being very politically correct pointing it out.

His thinking is "incorrect". Had he attended the Party organised summer camp himself as a child im sure he wouldnt have made such an unacceptable error.

**Moab** · 07-27-2011, 11:30 AM

Excuse me there funky .. What's wrong with learning about your party and your political position and meeting with like minded individuals. They the "liberals" didn't pull the trigger and had the "shooter" belonged to a group of conservative campers they might have explained that "shooting" liberals isn't the way to win elections.