Fox News Anti-Muslim, Pro-Christian on Norway Shooting?

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Under Fire For "Hitler Youth" Comparison, Glenn Beck Vaguely Claims "Something" Has Been Taken "Out Of Context" To "Destroy" Him

by Kevin Zieber/Media Matters

Glenn Beck charged on his radio show Wednesday that the mainstream media is trying to destroy him by taking "something" that he said "out of context":

Beck refused to specify just what comments were being misrepresented, but he has been under abarrage of criticism this week after he compared a youth camp in Norway where scores of young people were massacred to the "Hitler youth." In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Torbjørn Eriksen, former Press Secretary to Norway's prime minister, called the comment "a new low" and said, "Glenn Beck's comments are ignorant, incorrect and extremely hurtful."

It would be disingenuous to say that those comments included some kind of mitigating context:

BECK: So, Saturday, I was following the news of the shooting in Norway and the explosion in Norway, which happened, what, on Friday?

GRAY: Yeah. The explosion was - and then we left the air, and then he went to the camp.

BECK: Yeah. Well, when we heard the explosion everybody was willing to say, it's Muslim extremists; it's Muslim extremists. I don't think we made a comment on it, because we didn't know other than there was a bombing that happened. And 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? Disturbing.

But anyway, so there's this political camp, and some crazy man goes and starts shooting kids. I get up Saturday morning, and I write to Scott Baker at The Blaze and I said, I haven't seen this yet anywhere, and I can tell you exactly what's going on. Somebody just needs to follow the story. And what is going on is exactly what I said would happen. I warned that this would happen last fall.

Koch-Funded Tea Party Heavyweight Tim Phillips Spoke at Norweigan Killer's Political Party Event

From Alternet

Anders Behring Breivik, detained in the deadly Oslo bombing and shooting that has left 92 dead, has links to Norway's anti-government political group the Progress Party, according to the LA Times:

On social media forums, he claimed to be a disgruntled former member of Norway's anti-tax, small-government Progress Party, according to the Norwegian Nettavisen news service. His postings reflected strong anti-Islamic views and a deep skepticism about the mixing of different international cultures.

As if turns out, Tim Phillips, President of the Tea Party group Americans for Prosperity, spoke at a Progress Party event in 2010. According to an article published in the Norweigen paper Aftenposten on April 24th, 2010:

Phillips was invited by the Progress Party leadership to talk about grassroots organizing. But he talked mostly about how his organization is fighting for a weaker central government and lower taxes, to health reform and climate change.

Moreover, he spoke regularly Democrats in the U.S. as the "left side".

Read about Phillips' appearance here. 

Beck: Youth camp attacked in Norway ‘like the Hitler Youth’

 By David Edwards/Raw Story

Conservative radio host Glenn Beck said Monday that a Labour Party youth camp that was attack in Norway Friday “sounds a little like the Hitler Youth.”

“Saturday I was following the news of the shooting in Norway and the explosion in Norway, which happened what on Friday,” Beck recalled. “When we heard the explosion everybody was willing to say, it’s Muslim extremists, it’s Muslim extremists. I don’t think we made a comment on it because we didn’t know other than a bombing had happened, and as the thing started to unfold and there was a shooting a political camp, which sounds a little like the Hitler Youth or you know whatever. Who does a camp for kids that’s all about politics? Disturbing. But, anyway, so there’s this political camp and so crazy man goes and starts shooting kids.”

Politicususa noted that Beck’s 9/12 Project held its own political camp for kids this summer.

Listen to this audio from The Glenn Beck Program, uploaded by Media Matters July 25, 2011