Will conservatives, liberals, moderates and everybody else finally wake up and agree that Glenn Beck is a dangerous idiot who really needs to just go away after his attacks on billionaire George Soros? The Fox News commentators 2 night sludge slinging should have been titled “Rupert Murdoch Presents: The 2010 Edition of The Protocols of The Elders of Zion” for the “puppet master” accusations leveled against Soros, and in my opinion, Beck should be run out of town for his repulsive suggestion that as a child, Soros sent fellow Jews to the death camps.
But don’t just take my word for it. Here’s a handy little roundup:
- Abe Foxman FINALLY takes Beck to task.
- At The Daily Beast, Michelle Goldberg’s take on the matter is a critical read.
- At Tablet, Marc Tracy surveys the situation, and the comments that follow him are worth reading.
- Steve Clemons at The Faster Times: “I learned a long time ago that when someone is so compulsively committed to tearing someone down, to bullying them, to spending every moment obsessed with them that it often exposes one’s own views of himself.”
- From The Jewish Week: “Fox news commentator Glenn Beck may have thought he had an easy target in the controversial financier George Soros – but he didn’t reckon with Jews who care about Holocaust remembrance and don’t take kindly to reckless charges being thrown into the political maelstrom.”