Glenn Beck’s Tea Party Youth Camp

Glenn Beck's Tea Party Youth Camp

Last week Glenn Beck hit a new low when he compared scores of murdered teenagers at a summer camp in Norway to the Hitler Youth:

Beck: “As the thing started to unfold, and then there was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like the Hitler Youth, or whatever. I mean, who does a camp for kids that’s all about politics?”

As it turns out, Beck does a camp for kids that’s all about politics. It’s part of his 912 Project. Sadly, this isn’t even the first time Beck has sunk to calling kids Nazis, and his bile was not reserved for foreigners either. On February 5, 2009, Beck said this about young Americans learning about the environment:

“Some may believe we’re on the road to the Hitler youth.”

When Beck isn’t calling kids Nazis, he’s calling them terrorists:

“There are a lot of universities that are as dangerous with the indoctrination of the children as terrorists are in Iran or North Korea.”

Higher education is one of Beck’s most frequent targets. That’s consistent with his mission to promote ignorance. He strongly advises his disciples to avoid accredited schooling, and on September 1, 2010, he took another swipe saying “We have been setting up reeducation camps. We call them universities.”

Despite his open hostility to young people, Beck has expressed an interest in exerting his influence on them. In fact, it is a priority that extends far beyond a trip to summer camp. In the waning days of his Fox News program, Beck told viewers that the reason he was leaving was because he wanted to “get to the youth.” He later told a live audience in Albany, New York that he intended to build a way to “deliver news directly to the youth of America.” This targeted focus on youth contrasts sharply with his typical viewer. Beck’s audience (along with the rest of Fox News and the Tea Party crowd) skews to an older demographic (the curmudgeon community) than the average of the nation at large.

What might have triggered this sudden interest in the juvenile set? It’s not as if kids were amongst his favorite people. He has a history of demeaning and insulting them. Earlier this year he ridiculed Girl Scouts who had launched a campaign to protect endangered orangutans. Beck’s response was to mock them saying “Keep killing the orangutans, the cookies are yummy.” He also belittled high school students in Tucson, Arizona for protesting the cancellation of Mexican-American studies classes. He portrayed young environmentalists promoting a rally as thugs. And he vilifies kids in general as “useful idiots” who are being “turned into…slaves.”

As an indication of the disrespect that Beck harbors for young folks, he repeatedly lambastes Al Gore for saying that “There are some things about our world that you know that older people don’t know.” Notwithstanding the manifest truth of that statement, Beck ridiculed the notion as an assault on parental authority, something Beck interprets more like parental tyranny.

Beck simply has no regard for the intelligence or insight of youth. He believes that kids are stupid, susceptible to manipulation, and best suited for staying mum and obeying orders. With such a derogatory attitude, Beck is unlikely to have much success appealing to the young demographic. And that’s a good thing considering that he thinks most of them are Nazis anyway.

Glenn Beck does not belong on the public airwaves. His appalling insult to the memory of the slaughtered kids in Norway should be sufficient to drive him off the air for good. Here is list of his radio stations across the country. Find the one nearest you and let them know that you will not listen to the station or patronize the advertisers until Beck is gone.

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5 thoughts on “Glenn Beck’s Tea Party Youth Camp

  1. Glenn Beck will have about as much appeal to young people as an old style tube tv with no remote. Not only will he ever be watched he will never be turned on and totally ignored. I don’t think young people are as gullible as he hopes they are.

  2. He believes that kids are stupid, susceptible to manipulation, and best suited for staying mum and obeying orders.

    I can’t figure out why he doesn’t like them, then – that sounds like his core demographic. 😉

  3. Does he not understand the inherent contradiction in his sentiments? Or is he just crazy?

  4. The strategy of contacting radio stations is a good one, but you also need to contact the advertisers on those stations and tell them that you will no longer buy their products unless they stop advertising on said station as long as it runs Beck.

    To a small advertiser like Joes Plumbing Supplies of Skokie 20 or 30 irate people contacting him to tell him to stop advertising will have a more significant effect than 20 or 30 people contacting Pepsi.

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