US cable television host slanders socialism

[Hannah Bell]

Glenn Beck is a reactionary know-nothing who hosts a commentary program on Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News Channel in the US. An unstable individual, with a history of odd jobs in radio, Beck landed on his feet only during the Bush years as one of the new wave of talk-show demagogues.

This proponent of “common sense,” whom the media chooses to portray as a “populist,” is fantastically compensated, taking in a reported $32 million from March 2009 to March 2010. This multimillionaire, unsurprisingly, is an enthusiastic spokesman for the American financial-corporate aristocracy and a venomous foe of anyone who dares to criticize it.

On June 3, as part of a defense of Israel’s massacre of humanitarian activists off the coast of Gaza, Beck cited comments made to reporters from the World Socialist Web Site at protests against the killings. This is only the most recent occasion on which Beck has referred to or cited the WSWS.

Beck made the comments the jumping-off point for an incoherent tirade alleging “a rich history… of socialism and anti-Semitism.” In the course of his comments, Beck accused Karl Marx of anti-Semitism, claimed that German nationalist ideologue Wilhelm Marr was “a radical socialist,” pointed to the full name of the Nazi Party (although he got it wrong) as proof that it was a socialist movement, etc., etc.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jun2010/beck-j10.shtml


So that's where the talking points are coming from.

Glen Beck Central.

[LBJDemocrat]

1. This is a very good article.

Everyone should read it.

[KharmaTrain]

2. So How Does Dreck Square...

...the fact that Israel's Labor party is also known as the "Socialist" party in that country...and also that the kibbutz system is set up along the lines of a communist collective. So Marx was an anti-semite? And he pulled that out of his ass I'm sure. Being an athiest doesn't make one anti-semetic. How about Trotsky? It's no use...those who want to distort history on both sides of the P/I issue will do so.