On his radio show Friday, Glenn Beck heralded and promoted the work of Nazi sympathizer Elizabeth Dilling, who spoke at rallies hosted by the leading American Nazi group and praised Hitler. Today, Dilling is heralded by White Supremacists and White Aryans who revere her "fearless" work against Jewish people. As Media Matters' Simon Maloy noted, Beck had kind words for Dilling's 1934 anti-communist book, The Red Network, saying: "This is a book -- and I'm a getting a ton of these -- from people who were doing what we're doing now. We now are documenting who all of these people are. What he appears to be "doing now" is using a well known Nazi and fan of Hitler to help himself play the role of the new Joe McCarthy. Last week Beck dog whistled his support for the confederacy. This week he's back to Hitler and Nazis. To please to the entire GOP base however, next week he'll need to specifically pander to people who don't like Latinos.
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