Glenn Beck Apologizes For Comparison

By Douglas V. Gibbs

I don't watch Glenn Beck, not because I don't like him, but simply because he is on while I am at work, or sleeping. My wife uses the DVR. So, when news about what he says gets to me, it is usually because somebody told me about it. Nonetheless, from what I understand, he is a very talented conservative talker.

Months back he made a "shoot in the head" comment, but from what I understand, it was taken out of context by liberals. In the comment, he was illustrating a point speaking from the point of view of the opposition, from what I have been told.

So be it.

However, Glenn Beck's latest scandal is not just a matter of being taken out of context. Apparently, he made a bad decision, and made a comparison that was not received too well by the Jewish Community.

Beck has since apologized for the comment, which compared Reform rabbis to radical Islam.

“There are the Orthodox rabbis and there are the Reform rabbis,” Beck said. “Reformed [sic] rabbis are generally political in nature. It’s almost like radicalized Islam in a way where it is just — radicalized Islam is less about religion than it is about politics.”

In his apology, Beck indicated that he did not mean that Reform Judaism and radical Islam were identical, just that Orthodox rabbis, like Islam, places politics before religion.

Beck has also been accused of comparing liberals to Hitler and the Nazis (well, they are both socialists. . . ), and also for implying George Soros was a Nazi collaborator (wasn't he?).

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Glenn Beck apologizes for comparing Reform Judaism to radical Islam; says it was a bad analogy - New York Daily News