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August 11, 2009: Fox News Host Compares Media Coverage of ‘Tea Parties’ to Nazi Coverage of Anti-Nazi ‘Complainers’

2009-08-11

Fox News talk show host Glenn Beck compares the media’s portrayal of “tea party” participants to the Nazis’ portrayal of anti-Nazi “complainers.” Beck shows his viewers a poster from Nazi Germany depicting “complainers” about Nazi policies, saying, “This is a poster of what you see every day now in the news media making the complainers, the tea partygoers, look somehow rotten.” [Media Matters, 8/11/2009]