“I’m of German descent,” Beck says. “I really wanted to know if they didn’t know. It led me down a road of 'Who would I be in that situation?'”
Indeed.
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7:00 PM
Waffen-SS
There are a lot of cons on cable TV who I despise, but understand why they're put on television and are able to attract viewers. However, I just don't get why Glenn Beck was ever given his own show. What's his appeal, even to nazis?
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7:30 PM
I'm sorry marco, but those guys would have used him as toilet paper.
More likely...conscript, huddling in a dugout with the sound of Russian tanks approaching.
You know, it's not a very interesting question that Beck poses for himself. Most Germans were Nazis in that "situation". I'm sure we'd all like to think that we would've been stalwart martyrs for the Juden... but very few would've been that heroic. Most would've fallen in the goosestep line, soothing themselves with the Nazi propaganda about the twin terrors of communism and capitalism.
Beck pisses in his pants over Islamist terrorist enemies-- do we really think he would've been some sort of freethinking underground hero in Nazi Germany during wartime? Or would he have "served" his country against the backstabbing jews and the Soviet/American menaces?
What's Beck's appeal? I dunno. The GQ article tries to solve the puzzle. Fwiw, I will say I find Beck's wackaloonery to be more entertaining than several other conservative talking heads out there. His writers are not untalented.
You'd be a NAZI in that situation, Glenn.
Who says it's limited to "that situation"?
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2:20 AM
I liked this statement at the end of the GQ article:
Beck just wishes his critics would give him the benefit of the doubt. “If I read all that stuff about me that’s out there and didn’t know me or listen to my show, I’d hate me,” Beck says, standing in his kitchen’s doorway. “I’d think I was the most despicable person on the planet. My God, you can’t make mistakes in this country. I think my batting average is pretty good for thirty years. Can’t we say, ‘I’m sorry, I didn’t mean it that way’? ”
After the first 10 times, it starts to get monotonous, Glenn.
According to Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's "Hitler's Willing Executioners", Glenn woulda played some part, even in his indifference.
Just awful, horrific, and sad.
