From: Cliff on 30 Apr 2010 08:58 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chip-berlet/fox-news-hoax-exploits-ho_b_557457.html "Fox News Hoax Exploits Holocaust Link to Mask Racism in Tea Parties" [ The story surfaces nationally with a surreal Glenn Beck segment and two ludicrous Fox News discussions highlighting the false claim that Brandeis University was hosting an international conference linking the Tea Party movement to Nazis in Europe. The conference, which took place yesterday, revealed the entire propaganda campaign was a hoax, but not before anguished Holocaust survivors, conservative Jews in the Tea Party movement, and others had deluged Brandeis University with complaints. Now it seems that the story emerged as part of a Fox News campaign to defend the diverse and complicated Tea Party movement from evidence that its supporters include a significant contingent of White people who harbor racial resentment against Blacks and Latinos/Latinas. For the original Brandeis story on Fox News reporters relied on the claims of a single local Boston Tea Party advocate and conservative talk radio shock jock, Michael Graham, for its information. So Fox News featured the offensive hoax based on biased hearsay, unsubstantiated supposition, and a misreading of the conference program by a person who is a Tea Party supporter The Glenn Beck segment drifted farther away from facts and logic. Glenn Beck segment: 3:20 Brandeis conference denounced 6:00 Beck tell viewers to contact Brandeis As Media Matters for America observed, apparently the most significant aspect of the story for Beck was that the University was named after Jewish scholar and Supreme Court justice, the late Louis D. Brandeis. The group said that for Beck, the "Brandeis University symposium on political extremism is suspect because Louis Brandeis was in Wilson's cabinet," quipped Media Matter's link to that portion of Beck's tirade which skirted on the thin ice of classic antisemitic conspiracy claims about manipulation of politics by powerful elite Jews. ...... ]
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