Glenn Beck doesn’t like George Soros. And who would be surprised by that?

But the surprising thing (perhaps?) is the anti-Semitic rhetoric that Beck — who loves equating his political enemies with Nazis — used to denigrate Soros this week.

Here’s a fairly detailed description from the New York Times:

Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, took issue with Mr. Beck’s depiction of Mr. Soros as a “Jewish boy helping sending the Jews to the death camps,” calling it “offensive” and “horrific.”

On Tuesday on his Fox program, watched by about 2.8 million people, Mr. Beck said that during the Holocaust, the 14-year-old Mr. Soros “used to go around with this anti-Semite and deliver papers to the Jews and confiscate their property and then ship them off.”

Mr. Beck continued: “I am certainly not saying that George Soros enjoyed that, even had a choice. I mean, he’s 14 years old. He was surviving. So I’m not making a judgment. That’s between him and God.” He also said that “many people” would call Mr. Soros “an anti-Semite,” though “I will not.”

Fox, of course, stands by Glenn Beck’s comments; they are now great champions when it comes to expressing odious opinions, after all:

Joel Cheatwood, a senior vice president at Fox News, said in a statement Thursday afternoon that the “information regarding Mr. Soros’s experiences growing up were taken directly from his writings and from interviews given by him to the media, and no negative opinion was offered as to his actions as a child.”

I’m pretty sure I’m just preaching to the converted here, but turning on Fox News — even for a laugh at whatever inanity might be televised at that moment — ends up putting more money in the very deep pockets of people who make these sorts of racist and anti-Semitic comments with startling regularity.