A commenter on my blog insists that Glenn Beck is not a fearmonger. So, here are some quotes from Glenn Beck. While I'm sure he sometimes says very positive, nice things (about himself, Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes, and Jesus) being a fearmonger does not mean that you only gin up fear. It means that you do gin up fear.
And some of these are not fear mongering, they are just evidence of his messianic complex. He really seems to think he is God's prophet (or he thinks his viewers believe that).
You have three people in the White House that are in love with eugenics or whatever it is you would call it today. ... Please dear God, read history. Please dear God read the truth of what these people have said in their own words, and ask yourself this one question: Do you trust these people enough to give them control over who lives and who dies? Because that's what health care is when you have no other choice but to go to the state.
—Glenn Beck, comparing health care reform to Nazi eugenics
When you see the effects of what they're doing to the economy, remember these words: We will survive. No -- we'll do better than survive, we will thrive. As long as these people are not in control. They are taking you to a place to be slaughtered!
—Glenn Beck, on FOX News, Nov. 3, 2009
Every night I get down on my knees and pray that Dennis Kucinich will burst into flames.
—Glenn Beck, in 2003
I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today.
—Glenn Beck, on why people who lost their homes in forest fires in California had it coming, The Glenn Beck Program, Oct. 22, 2007
This president I think has exposed himself over and over again as a guy who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture....I'm not saying he doesn't like white people, I'm saying he has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist.
—Glenn Beck, on President Obama, sparking an advertiser exodus from his FOX News show, July 28, 2009
You got to have an enemy to fight. And when you have an enemy to fight, then you can unite the entire world behind you, and you seize power. That was Hitler's plan. His enemy: the Jew. Al Gore's enemy, the U.N.'s enemy: global warming. Then you get the scientists — eugenics. You get the scientists — global warming. Then you have to discredit the scientists who say, 'That's not right.' And you must silence all dissenting voices. That's what Hitler did.
—Glenn Beck, linking Al Gore's campaign against global warming to Hitler's campaign against the Jews, The Glenn Beck Program, April 30, 2007
Barack Obama ... chose to use his name Barack for a reason -- to identify, not with America -- you don't take the name Barack to identify with America. You take the name Barack to identify with what? Your heritage? The heritage, maybe, of your father in Kenya, who is a radical? Is -- really? Searching for something to give him any kind of meaning, just as he was searching later in life for religion.
—Glenn Beck, The Glenn Beck Program, Feb. 4, 2010
Al Gore's not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however. The goal is different. The goal is globalization...And you must silence all dissenting voices. That's what Hitler did. That's what Al Gore, the U.N., and everybody on the global warming bandwagon [are doing].
—Glenn Beck on his radio show, May 1, 2007
I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I'm wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it. ... No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out. Is this wrong?
—Glenn Beck, responding to the question 'What would people do for $50 million?', The Glenn Beck Program, May 17, 2005
Some may believe we're on the road to the Hitler youth.
—Glenn Beck, on teaching kids about climate change, Fox News's Glenn Beck show, Feb. 5, 2009
I am not saying that Barack Obama is a fascist. If I'm not mistaken, in the early days of Adolf Hitler, they were very happy to line up for help there as well. I mean, the companies were like, 'Hey, wait a minute. We can get, you know, we can get out of trouble here. They can help, et cetera, et cetera.'
—Glenn Beck, comparing government bailouts of auto companies to actions of German companies during the rise of Hitler, Fox News' Glenn Beck Show, April 1, 2009
This is fascism. This is what happens when you merge special interests, corporations, and the government. This is what happens. And if people like you don't take a stand...at some point, you know what poem keeps going through my mind is 'First they came for the Jews.' People, all of us are like, well, this news doesn't really affect me. Well, I'm not a bondholder. Well, I'm not in the banking industry. Well, I'm not a big CEO. Well, I'm not on Wall Street. Well, I'm not a car dealer. I'm not an autoworker. Gang, at some point they're going to come for you.
—Glenn Beck, on closures of auto dealerships under the bankruptcy deals of GM and Chrysler, The Glenn Beck Program, June 10, 2009
I have been nervous about this interview with you because what I feel like saying is, 'Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies. ... And I know you're not. I'm not accusing you of being an enemy, but that's the way I feel, and I think a lot of Americans will feel that way.
—Glenn Beck, interviewing Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim U.S. congressman, Glen Beck's show on CNN's Headline News, Nov. 14, 2006
I fear a Reichstag moment. God forbid, another 9/11. Something that will turn this machine on, and power will be seized and voices will be silenced.
—Glenn Beck, comparing actions by Washington elitists to the 1933 burning of Germany's parliament building in Berlin, which the Nazis blamed on communists and Hitler used as an excuse to suspend constitutional liberties and consolidate power, Newsmax interview, Sept. 29, 2009
So here you have Barack Obama going in and spending the money on embryonic stem cell research. ... Eugenics. In case you don't know what Eugenics led us to: the Final Solution. A master race! A perfect person. ... The stuff that we are facing is absolutely frightening.
—Glenn Beck on his radio show, March 9, 2009
God is giving a plan I think to me that is not really a plan. ... The problem is that I think the plan that the Lord would have us follow is hard for people to understand. ... Because of my track record with you who have been here for a long time. Because of my track record with you, I beg of you to help me get this message out, and I beg of you to pray for clarity on my part.
—Glenn Beck, The Glenn Beck Program, April 20, 2010
The plan that He would have me articulate, I think, to you, is get behind Me -- and I don't mean 'me,' I mean Him. Get behind Me. Stand behind Me.
—Glenn Beck, speaking on behalf of God on his radio program, April 20, 2010
Finally -- well, he wasn't the president. He was the chancellor, Hitler, decided that it was the only empathetic thing to do, is to put this child down and put him out of his suffering. It was the beginning of the T4, which led to genocide everywhere. It was the beginning of it. Empathy leads you to very bad decisions many times.
—Glenn Beck, on President Obama's statement that he would consider ''empathy'' in choosing a Supreme Court nominee, Fox News' Glenn Beck show, May 26, 2009
If you log onto this (Cars.gov) at your home, everything in your home is now theirs.
—Glenn Beck, arguing that the Cash for Clunkers program was nothing more than a secret government plot to gain access over your computer, July 2009
So, you decide. Fearmonger? Or Cultural Warrior?
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