Anti-Defamation League Condemns Beck
The Huffington Post reports:
The Anti-Defamation League has condemned Glenn Beck for his recent attacks on liberal billionaire George Soros. In particular, the ADL condemned Beck's comments about Soros' actions and experiences during the Holocaust, saying that they were "offensive" and "horrific."
For years, Beck has portrayed Soros as the key figure at the center of a widespread web of powerful left-wing organizations and individuals seeking to fundamentally alter American society and the world. These accusations came to a head this week, when Beck devoted two straight days of programming to a series of episodes revolving around Soros entitled "The Puppet Master."
In one segment, which aired on Tuesday, Beck summarized some of his charges, saying that Soros was behind the economic crisis and wants to bring about "one-world government."
Before that summary, however, Beck talked about the experiences that Soros, who is Jewish and lived through the Holocaust, had during his childhood in Nazi-controlled Eastern Europe. He said that Soros had, essentially, collaborated with the Nazis:
"[When he was] 14 years old, he had to help the government confiscate the land of his fellow Jewish friends neighbors. He didn't grow up in a very Jewish household. His mother was a strong anti-Semite -- his words, not mine -- but when he had to go over and take the lands from the people...who were being sent to the gas chambers, I can't imagine what that would do to a teenager, anybody, an adult. Well, what did it do to George Soros? In an interview with Steve Kroft, Soros was asked if he felt guilt at all about taking the property from the Jews as a teenager. He responded, 'no.' He also said, 'I don't deny the Jews their right to a national existence, but I don't want to be a part of it.'"
