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Glenn Beck: Jews are 'constantly talking'

Fri Aug 26, 2011 10:18 AM EDT
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JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - AUGUST 24: (ISRAEL OUT) Conservative Christian radio & television evangelist Glenn Beck hosts a rally near the Western Wall, on August 24, 2011 in Jerusalem's Old City, Israel. The event, under the slogan 'Restoring Courage', was attended by hundreds of his evangelical Christian supporters, whilst many who oppose his right-wing views protested outside. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)

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— "I don't know how that society even functions," he tells his radio listeners on the heels of a trip to Israel.

On the heels of his "Restoring Courage" event in Israel, Glenn Beck had some things to say about Jewish people that could land him in hot water — again.

"I love the Israelis," he said. "I love the Jewish people. But they drive me out of my mind when they talk over each other. They're constantly talking! I don't know how that society even functions."

Beck went on to equate being around Jews in Israel to being with a family that had eight children.

"Eating dinner at their house was like having dinner in Israel," he said. "Everybody is just talking at the same time, you can't even think!"

Beck, who made the remarks on his radio show Thursday from South Africa, has said that "there is no one more pro-Israel or more pro-Jew than I am."

But he has angered Jewish groups before by using Nazi language and imagery, attacking Holocaust survivor George Soros and comparing Reform rabbis to radical Muslims.

When he announced his departure from Fox News earlier this year, the  social advocacy nonprofit group Jewish Funds for Justice celebrated and took credit for his exit. The organization had campaigned for a year for his ouster, circulating petitions and buying newspaper ads.

Several other Jewish groups had protested his show as well.

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The reason for some groups to engage in constant dialog seems to be related to living in high density areas. I have relatives that are from the City of New York and they constantly engage in chatter. Not so much meaningful conversation but endless discussions that go nowhere. It's as if there is a constant contest to talk more than the person next to you. Luckily, they are not the average New York types that lace every sentence with profanity. Beck is right, why would the truth about Jews and other city dwellers be a negative?

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