Progressive Democrat Issue 79: MEDIA ACTIVISM I: Glen Beck calls Al Gore a Nazi, calls Katrina victims "scumbags" and hates 9/11 families

From Media Matters and Daily Kos I bring you this latest disgusting right wing media BS.

Glen Beck, who broadcasts on CNN and Clear Channel, has really become one of the most disgusting right wing noise machines.

Some old crap from this guy comes from September 9th 2005:

…you know it took me about a year to start hating the 9-11 victims' families? Took me about a year.

Well, apparently he and Ann Coulter have something in common (see below): they both hate victims of terrorism.

Beck followed up that disgusting, callous crap with this:

when I saw these people [Katrina victims in New Orleans] and they had to shut down the Astrodome and lock it down, I thought: I didn't think I could hate victims faster than the 9-11 victims…And that's all we're hearing about, are the people in New Orleans. Those are the only ones we're seeing on television are the scumbags…

Typical Republican tactic: blame the victim. I think the REAL scumbag is Glen Beck and CNN gives this guy a show!

But more recently Beck used another disgusting tactic: compare someone you disagree with to Hitler no matter how inappropriate the comparison. To me this belittles the Holocaust.

On his CNN show, Glen Beck compared Al Gore to Hitler:

On the June 7 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio program, CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck became the latest critic to compare An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary film about former Vice President Al Gore's campaign to raise awareness of global warming, to the Nazis. Beck dismissed many of the conclusions drawn from the documentary, stating, "[W]hen you take a little bit of truth and then you mix it with untruth, or your theory, that's where you get people to believe. ... It's like Hitler. Hitler said a little bit of truth, and then he mixed in 'and it's the Jews' fault.' That's where things get a little troublesome, and that's exactly what's happening" in An Inconvenient Truth.

THIS IS WHO CNN PUTS ON THE AIR???

Complain to CNN. Complain vigorously that this guy who hates victims of terrorism and victims of government incompetence and who belittles the Holocaust is given a show on CNN.

You can complain HERE and HERE.

Also complain vigorously to the company that puts out his show:

Premiere Radio Networks, Inc.
15260 Ventura Blvd. 5th Floor
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
Main: (818)377-5300
Fax: (818)377-5333
Toll Free: (800)533-8686
Help get this scumbag off the air.

It also might be worth contacting the Anti-Defamation League since a.) belittling the Holocaust is something we all should be concerned with, and b.) if the ADL gets involved, CNN is going to get scared.