Jul 25, 2011

Glenn Beck compares Norwegian victims to 'Hitler Youth'

By Michael Winter, USA TODAY
Updated 13m ago

Radio personality Glenn Beck is taking flak for comparing the young Norwegian shootings victims and their friends to "Hitler youth."

"As the thing started to unfold and there was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like the Hitler Youth. Who does a camp for kids that's all about politics? Disturbing," Beck said on his program this morning.

Listen to it here. http://www.glennbeck.com/content/show/2011-07-25/

Glenn Beck speaking July 11 at the Knesset to members of the Israeli parliament.
CAPTIONBy GaliI Tibbon, AFP/Getty ImagesThe camp, on Utoya Island off Oslo, is sponsored by the liberal social-democratic Labor Party, the senior partner running Norway's government. The Hitler Youth was a paramilitary organization of Germany's Nazi Party during World War II.

A former press secretary to Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg called Beck's comment "a new low" for the former Fox News star, London's Daily Telegraph reports.

"Young political activists have gathered at Utoya for over 60 years to learn about and be part of democracy, the very opposite of what the Hitler Youth was about," he told the newspaper. "Glenn Beck's comments are ignorant, incorrect and extremely hurtful."

In Washington, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence called the comparison "absolutely disgusting," the Telegraph writes.

Mediaite writes, "While Beck's Hitler Youth comment is shocking (sure, he's never been a fan of left-wing groups "indoctrinating"children but, come on, a bunch of teenagers were just murdered), his other comments were just as interesting." More on that here.

See On Deadline's earlier post on the court appearance by the shooting suspect, Anders Behring Breivik, a right-wing extremist who says he wanted to start a revolution to "save Europe" from multiculturalism.

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