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Glenn Beck: youth camp attacked in Norway sounds "like the Hitler Youth"

The US shock jock says it is "disturbing" that Utoya youth camp, where 68 were murdered, was focused on politics.

Never one to shy away from controversial remarks, US right-wing pundit Glenn Back has caused an outcry with comments on his Premiere Radio Networks' show, The Glenn Beck Program.

Discussing the massacre in Norway, he says:

As the thing started to unfold, and then there was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like, you know, the Hitler Youth or whatever -- I mean, who does a camp for kids that's all about politics? Disturbing. But anyway, so there's this political camp, and some crazy man goes and starts shooting kids.

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74 comments

AndyPW's picture

Beck would make a good comedian if it were not that so many people believe what he says.
He says he is explaining a complex theory that falls down if you get any part of it wrong, and proceeds to make multiple schoolboy errors, e.g. Wilders is Danish rather than Dutch, Blair and Brown have said multiculturalism has failed when it was Cameron.
He is also using the easy excuse that Breivik was a madman, rather than looking at what drove him. What drove him was the same blinkered recycled rhetoric that Beck then comes out with. Beck is part of the problem and if he and his like continue to spout such atrocious nonsense, then they will be the cause of another Breivik.

JUSTICE FOR CYPRUS's picture

The man is a right-wing loony - clearly incapable of voicing a coherent argument. As someone else has said - part of the problem. Please don't give him air and Web space again.

Did's picture

Some examples of the razor sharp political and cultural analysis we're obviously so sadly lacking in Europe (from Glenn Beck's own show, Rick and Lauriesprivateeducation)...

''Last Fall I predicted that Europe would experience some financial difficulties.''

As long ago as that?

''Multiculturalism is killing Europe'' and ''European cities are being overrun.''

I know, we just can't move for Muslim extremists over here can we?

''Fascism and communism, that's your right and left right there.''

See how he uses his towering intellect to keep things nice and easy for us to understand.

But he's not all bad...

''There are a lot of decent Muslims.''

Thanks for your approval Glenn.

Tom's picture

I would say I'm shocked by these comments, but it is Glenn Beck who said them. He is utter scum.

Alex MacDonald's picture

Glenn Beck probably thought Anders Behring Breivik was too much of a moderate...

Aimee's picture

A disgusting, repugnant fool with a loud speaker. I really don't think he has got any idea what he is saying.

Alison's picture

Surely his real objection is that the camp didn't focus on right wing politics?

Harald Strømme's picture

What a total embarrasment Glenn Beck is for America. A career based on staggering stupidity combined with a bottomless lack of sensitivity and compassion. These young people represented the finest symbol of democracy, gathering because they wanted to create a better world. To compare them to Hitler-youth after the were shot by an islamofob (with fundamentalist views close to Becks own) is an insult beyond comprehension. Shame on you.

Anthony's picture

GB: "Who dies a camp for kids that's all about politics?..."

Presumably he would disapprove of Jesus Camp as well - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RNfL6IVWCE

Daniel's picture

Complete fucking bastard! He will go apeshit the moment anyone even remotely compares him to hitler but he's quite happy to compare murdered children to the Hitler Youth! Twat.

WilliamW's picture

After reading this insensitive comment (and many more) it's safe to say that Glenn Beck is scum.

A diplomatic "fuck you" from Norway.

Hoopz's picture

Stop giving him the attention he so clearly craves. He is irrelevant.

Thomas Hansen's picture

Now would be a good time to use the Government Pension Fund to buy Clear Channel Communications. And replace their management.

Or send a polite email to Mr Casey of that company: TomCaseyCFO@clearchannel.com.

Robin's picture

Woa.. Has he never heard of the Tea Party- that wonderful organisation which runs a summer camp for 8 to 12 year olds to teach the value of "God, the constitution, and how to defend their economic liberty"?

Reason #18 Why I will never move to America.

Telegraph article here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-election/8582654/Tea-Party-...

Steve's picture

Anyone who thinks that Beck is valuable commentator is nothing more than a:
Star Spangled Idiot.
Freedom of speech, fine.
Now he can take a long walk off a short, Norwegian pier with a dum dum in his underdeveloped brain.
Hope this doesn't offend anyone. Fair and balanced, I think.
My thoughts are with our friends from Norway.

Aidan's picture

He wouldn't be saying that if it were his kids being shot.

Beck is lower than low.

Erin's picture

Just sickening.

Henning's picture

Robin: Also, I have a feeling that the Tea Party "teaches" the 8-12(!) year olds about "the truth", while the Norwegian Labour Party camp (aged 15-25 or something) consists of discussions and exchanging ideas. They're not "forcing" "the truth" on some kids too young to follow politics or news.

ZJZJZJZJZJZJ's picture

you really are a total fkn idiot Glen. Go and sit down and have a little think about what you said. Until you know better, keep your big mouth shut.

Weston's picture

The American Legion does a youth camp that's all about politics. It's called Boys State. Young men attend to learn about the function of government, how elections work, and the benefits of national service. Very educational.

But hey, at least he isn't discriminating against Islam. *eyeroll*

Mac's picture

Dispicable even by Beck's standards! Hateful, imbecilic, ignorant, spiteful fuckin oxygen thief!

Terje Akerhaug's picture

May you never come to Norway.

Angelique Dudek's picture

Glenn Beck is the Slobodan Milosevic of American hate-speech radio.

And that's not an exaggeration.

Tor Sverre Lund's picture

Insignificant poopy-head ... /ignore

Oxnar's picture

Research his religion, that will tell you a lot.

Angelique Dudek's picture

Not really, not when you consider that he's on one of the biggest private broadcasting networks in the USA and can be heard in the radio market of almost every American city and town. And every American city has at least one Anders.

Yngve Eide's picture

Shame on you Glenn Beck.

Olam Gadol's picture

When u arrive in Jerusalem, Beck, it will be the beginning of the end for your religious/political journey. People there will not put up with your bush league bull shit.

Angelique Dudek's picture

You have to understand, Glenn Beck is a former "morning zoo" shock jock, who stooped to no low to claw his way to the top.

He even phoned the wife of the program director of a competing station - on the air - just days after she had a miscarriage, to ask her if it was true. When she said that it was true, he joked that her husband couldn't even have children properly.

He has no morality and no scruples.

John's picture

What did Beck do in 1990 again?

K. M.'s picture

Geert Wilders is Dutch. How many time's have you talked to him again??

T's picture

I cannot say that I'm in any way surprised by Becks comments. He is and has been throughout his whole carreer a total heartless a-hole and incredibly unworthy person to get media attention. I knew, yes KNEW, the "kids" at that camp and know for a fact that they were there on free will and not in any way "placed" or forced there by their parents and their parents views of the world (as for example "Camp Jesus" or "Tea Party"). Their ages were between 13-30 and the only ones under the age of 13 was there with parents or alike and only for the day. Their days were filled with laughter, debates of everything between nailpolish to nuclear weapons, camp fires, sports, love, friendship and yes, politics. Each and every one of them were ambitious, dedicated, open minded, joyfull and so much more. Now close to 90 of them are murded. And Beck calls it "Hitler Youth"? I dont even want to say what I think of this man or the man behind the murders. They arent worth it. And no, i am not comparing them. But to beck; Next time, make sure you KNOW what you voice-up-to/speak/talk about before you open that stupidious mouth of yours and say anything else. From my whole heart; May you be forgotten and never heard of again.

P.C.'s picture

The best way to deal with the kind of "people" like this guy is to just ignore them.

His single brain cell is most likely overtaxed enough by trying to match his socks each morning, so simple concepts like 'facts' likely evade him entirely.

Must be utterly boring to live in a small world like that.

Keir's picture

I teach history just a few miles from Dachau KZ Memorial site. Many of my students have family members who were in the Hitlerjugend. If I said ANYTHING like this, I would be immediately fired. As a teacher, every class is scrutinized and I risk everything if anything I say is misconstrued, always a danger when there are ESLs. How can this man continue to propagate his hateful ignorance without any fear of negative consequences? Why are people in America who are given the platform to influence and incite the masses not expected to hold relevant qualifications and follow the same professional conduct as us plebs?
www.tracesofevil.com

swatantra nandanwar's picture

The man is an absolute disgrace. Trouble is you cannot ignore them, but have to continually challenge them and their beliefs.

thomas's picture

Why am I NOT surprised that Beck would come to the defense of that neonazi terrorist in Norway?

PH's picture

Beck is upset simply because his political identity is exactly the same one as Breiviks. Right-wing, islamophobic, considers all liberals communists and is so unaware of that youths in Europe actually engage in politics, and that camps other than the US "Glenn Becks Happy Camp at the Creationist Museum" exists.

Rhesust's picture

If he ever came to Norway... What a stupid, cynical, hate-mongering piece of shit. When I come to think of it, shit is worth more than that piece of nothing. And nothing is much better than the space he takes up.

Starsky's picture

Fox news sacked him - for being a fuckwit.If Fox news had to get rid of him that says it all.

hugh markey's picture

Glenn Ford well into middle-age put his money where his mouth was and joined in the Vietnam conflict. Lost a son in the same hopeless carnage.
Glenn Beck just motors on with that mouth of his. He's keeping the Home Front safe for the US salariat and the lumpen proletariat who have sent abroad a body double in their place. Superheros one and all.
The Young Republicans hopefully do not have summer camps. Still, they're cowering behind the military power of their own state in addition to the military resources of allies. Coatholders - not pacifists.

Fighting Talk

Lo's picture

Ashamed to come from the same country as this man

N's picture

This pathetic excuse of a man makes me utterly disgusted. Christian-consevative hate-monger who doesn't know the truth about anything beyond the tip of his nose.

Marian's picture

America has Youth Government orient camps, too. I am American, and my Junior year in high school (11th grade), I went to a camp called Girls State (there is also a separate boys state, because here in the USA, we can watch a psychopath kill a baby on television, but sexuality, nudity and combining genders at a camp are taboo).

This was a camp all about the U.S. government. We heard various officials and politicians speak, we ran for office, we performed functions of the government.

I am rather surprised Glenn Beck would say that as an American, but again, I also think he is a front runner for laws regarding the mentally challenged.

So, I guess I am a part of Hitler Youth because I went to a U.S. Government camp?

Dwight's picture

Yet again this freaking guy continues to astonish me with the most ignorant, incomprehensible, apprenticed, benighted, birdbrained, blind to, cretinous, dense, green*, illiterate, imbecilic, in the dark, inexperienced, innocent, insensible, mindless, misinformed, moronic, naive, nescient, oblivious, obtuse, shallow, thick, unconscious, unconversant, uncultivated, uncultured, uneducated, unenlightened, uninformed, uninitiated, unintellectual, unknowledgeable, unlearned, unlettered, unmindful, unread, unschooled, unsuspecting, untaught, untrained, unwitting, witless comments I have ever heard. Even for you Glenn Beck this is a new low. I hope that this outrages even your most loyal of supporters enough that those that you answer to find you and strip you of your ability to speak where others can hear you. You are not objective, subjective, opinionated, controversial or even relevent. You are and will always be blind... oh yeah... pardon the comparison.

p j wall's picture

This statement in its self is shocking, until you realise it was self publicist scum known as Glen Beck!!, this guy along with other scum like Bill o Reilly, Russ Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity, all of whom are in the same stable or connected to MURDOCHS toxic channel FOX NEWS along with their motto (dont laugh) "fair and balanced", they spew hatred and venom every single day, with the same old bigoted pundits spewing the same old right wing bile, this is what would of eventually happened to SKY NEWS had murdochs deal not been scuppered!!, some say the likes of Kay Burley, Jeff Randall, Jon Craig, and of course the big baby himself, ADAM BOULTON have already crossed that divide with their clear BIAS, Glen beck is obsessed with the word "NAZI" and "HITLER" he uses these phrases all the time when he's slagging someone or something off!!, the guy is a total bumpkin along with all the other right wing talk radio nut jobs!!, we even have a little tub of lard version of our own the obnoxious Jon Gaunt who also recently got sacked from TALK SPORT for calling a guest a "NAZI", weird that!!!.

kingkp's picture

fascinating excerpt. It gives a real insight into just how ignorant and self-obssessed the americans are. The bit about europe replacing their kings with fascists and or communists, but nothing in between , was exquisite. Does it ever dawn on these people , that the majority of their hallowed founding fathers were bigoted slave owners? The bit about stoning people was funny too...but then that's far more barbaric than frying an innocent man in an electric chair I guess.

Niclas's picture

Fuck you.

Lauriesprivateeducation's picture

Hate?

Yes we can see it in the comments on this site. Ahh the stupid window licking lefties replying to mildly offensive and rather silly comments by the successful Mr Beck.

That's why he is worth millions and you are social workers.

JustBob's picture

These "Hitler Youths" should throw a few cans of Zyklon B through Beck's windows...

Lox's picture

Beck is a pompous, self-aggrandising clown. Lauriesprivateeducation, his nonsense might have been mildly offensive and rather silly to you, but it's very offensive in it's stupidity, crass insensitivity and boneheaded sectarianism to anyone with a brain. This has nothing to do with envy on anyone's part.

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