Glenn Beck began his radio broadcast career at Age 18 in Utah.  He then moved to Washington D.C. and later to New Haven where he enrolled at Yale in one class in theology. But Beck dropped that class, and that was the extent of his higher education.

However, while in New Haven Beck reportedly "self-educated" himself by reading books by Adolf Hitler, Billy Graham and Friedrich Nietzsche.  From New Haven, Beck moved to Phoenix where he outraged many when he called the wife of a rival radio talk show host and made fun of her miscarriage on the air.  He also mocked a Chinese-American caller at another station.

Beck was fired from several stations before he finally landed in Tampa where he began The Glenn Beck Show.  Beck made the jump to television when CNN picked up The Glenn Beck Show; but he proved too controversial for CNN and soon moved to Fox News Channel.

Somewhere along the way, Beck, looking for a way to boost his ratings, hit upon the idea of appealing to the right wing.  He carved out a fan base that absolutely believed every word his was saying, although he was really doing nothing but spouting the same radical right propaganda that had been rejected by the mainstream for years as "idiocy and libel."

"The self righteous, egotistical, narcissist would adopt his hero Cleon Skousen’s line of accusing liberals/Democrats/progressives of being secret communists in league with terrorists for the effort to take over the world and destroy Democracy. To that end, Beck has gone on a crusade to rewrite history, shamelessly and falsely comparing Democrat created programs to stuff the Nazis did. One of these programs being the health care bill and embryonic stem cell research. In March 2009, Beck said,"

“So here you have Barack Obama going in and spending the money on embryonic stem cell research. … Eugenics. In case you don’t know what Eugenics led us to: the Final Solution. A master race! A perfect person. … The stuff that we are facing is absolutely frightening.” 

Of course, that is ridiculous.  Stem-cell research is an effort to find cures for such debilitating diseases as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, actually beginning back in the '60's. Furthermore, noted Republican First Lady Nancy Reagan has openly supported stem-cell research because it shows promise in the cure or prevention of Alzheimer's, a disease from which former President Ronald Reagan suffered. 

In addition, eugenics DID NOT lead to the Final Solution.  The "final solution" was Hitler's plan to eliminate the Jewish race and had nothing to do with eugenics.

What Beck fails to realize is that not EVERYTHING the Nazis did was automatically evil. Universal health care is not evil, building roads and putting people back to work is not evil; what made the Nazis evil was their quest for world domination and their extermination of the Jews and other minority groups, including members of the press, the Intelligentsia, blacks, and homosexuals.

Beck has made several other attempts to rewrite history; for instance, his claim that Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act.  That is ridiculous.  The Civil Rights Act passed during the Johnson Administration, thanks to the Democrats and a few moderate Republicans whose arms Johnson twisted hard, calling in past political favors.

Beck has also tried to christianize America.  He and his buddy, David Barton (who was instrumental in rewriting Texas textbooks),  partnered up to try to prove that the Founding Fathers were dedicated Christians and that our country was built by them on Christian principles that were against separation of church and state.

Either, Beck is completely ignorant or he is lying through his teeth.

In fact, most of the Founding Fathers were Deists in the mode of the French who ushered in the "Age of Enlightenment."  A good many of The Founding Fathers were Freemasons who believed in a higher power but not necessarily a specific god. Furthermore,  they did not believe that Christ was a supernatural being.  Thomas Jefferson went so far as to write his own Bible and George Washington, who would go to church with Martha, would leave when communion began rather than participate.

And they ABSOLUTELY believed in separation of church and state.  

Beck has also claimed that racism had nothing to do with slavery.  Of course, it did. Most people in the South considered blacks to be an inferior race, and many still do. Beck, himself, seems to have a problem with blacks.  Most of his really vitriolic statements began after Obama was elected.  Just a couple of Beck's statements concerning Obama and the African-American community in general:

“This president I think has exposed himself over and over again as a guy who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture….I’m not saying he doesn’t like white people, I’m saying he has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist.” – on President Obama, sparking an advertiser exodus from his FOX News show, July 28, 2009

“The only Katrina victims we’re seeing on television are the scumbags.” – “The Glenn Beck Program,” Sept. 9, 2005

Beck has shown himself to be a racist over and over again. And his followers, heavily concentrated in the Bible Belt, eat it up.   He has also demonstrated that anything he does that appears benevolent is only to advance his own agenda, both politically and personally.   He derided the 9-11 victims, even though he established the 9-12 Foundation the day after the tragedy, supposedly to unite all Americans.  Instead, he has used it as a fund-raiser for the Tea Party (not ALL Americans, I can assure you) Beck proved he didn't really care anything about the 9-ll victims when he stated:

When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I’m just like, ‘Oh shut up’ I’m so sick of them because they’re always complaining.” – “The Glenn Beck Program,” Sept. 9, 2005

Beck has also demonstrated his hatred of liberals as evidenced by his obvious delight in the forest fires in California, a liberal-leaning state, claiming that many had it coming because they "hate America".

Beck opposed the Muslim community center that will be built 2 blocks away from Ground Zero of the World Trade Center. Beck incited hatred and violence against American Muslims leading to the vandalism of mosques and attacks on Arab-Americans. But Beck has demonstrated his hatred of Muslims before. In 2006, Beck interviewed Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim U.S. congressman, and had this to say,

“I have been nervous about this interview with you because what I feel like saying is, ‘Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies. … And I know you’re not. I’m not accusing you of being an enemy, but that’s the way I feel, and I think a lot of Americans will feel that way.”

And if you didn’t think it could get any darker than that, it does. Glenn Beck has called for outright violence against liberals telling his followers that they should “shoot them in the forehead”. At least three would be assassins have pointed to Glenn Becks show as the inspiration for their actions.

On July 18, 2010, Byron Williams was stopped by the California Highway Patrol and engaged in a shootout with law enforcement. He later said he was on his way to murder individuals at the Tides Foundation and ACLU and that Glenn Beck inspired him to do it.

In October 2010, Charles Wilson was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for threatening Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) with “violence” in phone calls to her office. The hate filled threats were in part inspired by Glenn Beck, according to Wilson’s cousin.

And finally, in December 2010, Gregory Lee Giusti was sentenced to a year and nine months in federal prison for threatening to destroy former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home if she voted in support of the health care reform law. Giusti had watched Glenn Beck burn Pelosi in effigy and became inspired.

Beck has a history of inciting violence against Democrats. He has even fantasized about shooting Michael Moore, and be-heading President Obama. The message Beck is clearly sending to his followers is that he wants them to kill liberals, plain and simple.