RSSUniversity University Professor Takes On Glenn Beck…And Loses
Carl Andrews | January 24, 2010
You’ll have to read a bit of the article before reaching the part where I point out the glaring fact that Clemson University professor Steven Marks has no idea of what the hell he is talking about.
Viewers tuning into MSNBC at 5 p.m. on Friday would have seen Chris Matthews riffing on President Barack Obama’s speech in Ohio, while CNN’s “The Situation Room” led with the earthquake in Haiti.
But Fox News wasn’t focusing on the day’s news. Instead, host Glenn Beck ran through the atrocities of Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara — “the true unseen history of Marxism, progressivism and communism” as Beck described it — with some implied lessons for today.
Over the past year, Beck has used images from Nazi rallies or the Soviet Union when stoking fears of creeping socialism in the United States. And he’s often placed historical figures into the far-out theories he diagrams on his chalkboard. But in Friday’s hourlong documentary, titled “The Revolutionary Holocaust: Live Free … or Die,” Beck doubled down on the use of imagery pulled from the 20th century’s totalitarian past to make a point about citizens needing to be wary of government overreach in the present.
Beck, in teasing the documentary Thursday, claimed that “progressives” don’t want the public to know about this history and that it’s “not being taught in classrooms in America.”
Not everyone who watched his history lesson was convinced — especially some professional historians.
Clemson University professor Steven Marks, author of “How Russia Shaped the Modern World,” said that while Beck doesn’t explicitly tie the left-wing totalitarian regimes of the past to contemporary liberals, that’s what “he’s hinting at here.”
“No one in their right mind is going to defend Stalin or Mao or Che Guevara,” Marks said. “The implication is that this is what’s going to happen if Democrats get their way. This is just a complete lie.”
(Hey professor Marks, ever hear of a Democrat named Anita Dunn? Yes, THAT Anita Dunn, the White House communications director who said that Mao Tse Tung is one of her favorite political philosophers? Do the folks at Clemson actually pay you not to pay attention?)
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Or how about the FCC guy Obama appointed who not only loves Chavez but has referred to Che, Mao and others of this ilk as people we should emulate. Or the Ex-Jobs Czar, and a number of others inside this administration who have been caught on the news. What about all the aids who have been going down to Cuba and coming back praising Castro as a visionary and great leader who is misunderstood and fought for a great cause that we should support his ideas and programs. The list goes on and on.