Glenn Beck categorizes Occupy protesters as radicals, revolutionaries, communists, and Islamists, saying that had come together to destroy the country’s capitalist system. The controversial conservative commentator spoke with Kathie Lee Gifford on NBC’s “Today” show on Wednesday, Oct. 26. But the watered down remarks paled in comparison to the paranoid rant Beck made on his radio show, saying that the only thing that could control the movement would be a forceful crushing from “the top,” he added, “It will be the Night of Long Knives. It will be a purging of this country,” — a reference to the political murders carried out by the Nazis in Germany.
And like a classic paranoid, Beck uttered an even starker and darker warning directed at white capitalists and tea party devotees:
“Capitalists, if you think that you can play footsies with these people, you’re wrong. They will come for you and drag you into the streets and kill you…they’re Marxist radicals … these guys are worse than Robespierre from the French Revolution … they’ll kill everybody.”
Beck appeared on the “Today” show to promote his new book, The Snow Angel and in the course of the interview broke into tears about the abuse he suffered as a child, his mother’s suicide and growing up in an alcoholic household.
