thinkprogress.org — Today on his CNN Headline News show, Glenn Beck went on a rant against former President Franklin D. Roosevelt, blaming him for making the Great Depression "go on and on and on for a decade." He then said, "I love my grandfather, but I just want to slap himself across the face for liking FDR. I think that was one evil son of a bitch."
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origamironinJan 17, 2008
You can opt-out. Move to Nigeria.
billybillyboyJan 17, 2008
please stop comparing the united states to small, homogeneous (ethnically and politically)european countries. the analogy simply does not work.
venom8599Jan 18, 2008
It might be immoral (I don't think so, but whatever..) but it's not illegal--even today--for the government to do so. Go ahead and start exporting encryption technology to the Chinese, or anything to anyone in Cuba and see how that goes in the long run.
kindpastorJan 18, 2008
It's inspiring to see so many fellow Roosevelt-haters on Digg. Boycott Dimes!//I keed. I keeed. Just scratch "X's" over his face so the guy at the 7/11 gives you a funny look when you get a slurpee.//I keeed I keeeed again!
wtfpwned98Jan 19, 2008
Wow, all of these people arguing with more ideology than history on their side. Up until the revisionists started in on FDR a couple of years ago, everyone knew that he did a lot more good than harm to our economy, which was deeply troubled at the time. Some more regulation could have prevented that, BTW. Now, go ahead Ronbots, digg me down.
daveyt5Jan 19, 2008
Uhh no. Fascism supported private enterprise and hated the Comunists. The only reason Stalin allied with the Nazi's was because he wasn't strong enough to fight them (at the time) and had nothing to do with ideology. look it up
borramakotJun 13, 2008
I would say that the lasting damage was more to the Constitution than to the economy. The economy can and will recover from anything, given breathing space and enough time. FDR's massive breach of the constitution set precedents that continue to this day.
nsresponderJan 2, 2009
"until WW2. Which COINCIDENTALLY was when we got out of the depression."Nope. The depression didn't end until 1946, when all the wartime economic controls were lifted. War production isn't wealth: you can't eat bullets.-jcr
nsresponderJan 3, 2009
"The population during that period of time would have lynched them."Bulls**t. White ranchers in Montana met the FBI with their shotguns, and told them in no uncertain terms that they wouldn't tolerate the government imprisoning their Japanese-American neighbors. Despite some of the most virulent racist propaganda we've ever seen in this country, there were plenty of people ready and willing to do right by their neighbors.-jcr
nsresponderJan 3, 2009
"FDR was actually ALMOST as bad as Bush, in my opinion."I conclude from this that you have no sense of proportion. Bush has imprisoned hundreds of people without trial. FDR did it to over a hundred THOUSAND people.-jcr
nsresponderJan 3, 2009
" the guy who saved this country from people starving in the streets "Who would that be? FDR ordered vast quantities of food destroyed to keep the prices up. Big help for the hungry and poor during the depression. -jcr
nsresponderJan 3, 2009
I don't know if it will ever be "fashionable", but these days, thanks to the internet, mass communication isn't one-way anymore.-jcr
jicimaMar 9, 2009
He's right FDR is probably burning in hell right now.
iconoclastyellApr 24, 2009
It was FDR dying that got the United States out of the depression. War does not create prosperity, it destroys things and kills people. It may have created full employment but during the war things were in such short supply they were rationed. It was Harry Truman's policies that were less hostile to free markets that finally brought the depressed times to an end.
iconoclastyellApr 24, 2009
President Calvin Coolidge , who led the country into one of its best times ever , once said of Hoover " for six years that man has given me unsolicited advice—all of it bad.". The truth is FDR was Hoover on steroids. FDR continued and expanded Hoovers ham fisted meddling in the economy, prolonging the depression until he did us all a favor and died. This country is now moving towards dictatorship under Obama and both Hoover and FDR are responsible in no small part for making this evil possible.