Glenn Beck compares victims of Utoya shootings to Hitler youth

Controversial right-wing political commentator Glenn Beck has come under further criticism after likening the victims of last weeks Utoya shootings to "Hitler youth."

Speaking on his nationally syndicated radio talk show Monday, Beck called the shooter, Anders Behring Breivik, "as bad as Osama bin Laden" and a "madman." However, before attacking Brelvik, Beck went after the camp's attendees. "There was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like, you know, the Hitler youth. I mean, who does a camp for kids that's all about politics?" said Beck. "Disturbing." Torbjørn Eriksen, the press secretary to Jens Stoltenberg, the Prime Minister of Norway, is none too happy about Beck's remarks: "Young political activists have gathered at Utoya for over 60 years to learn about and be part of democracy, the very opposite of what the Hitler Youth was about," said Eriksen to the Daily Telegraph. "Glenn Beck's comments are ignorant, incorrect and extremely hurtful." While he finds the idea of kids attending a politically-charged camp "disturbing", this summer has seen the launch of several "Tea Party camps" by the 9/12 Project, started by Glenn Beck. In states like Colorado, Kentucky, and Florida, organizers from 9/12 Project chapters have put on camps for children as young as the first grade to teach programs "our Constitution, the Founding Fathers, and the values and principles that are the cornerstones of our nation." This is not the first time that Beck has come under fire for comments he's made on the air. In 2009 on the Fox & Friends morning show, Beck said that American President Barack Obama has "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture," and later adding that "this guy is, I believe, a racist." A year later, Beck said he regretted making the comment, saying he has a "big fat mouth." In February of this year, Beck said on his radio show "Reform Rabbis are generally political in nature. It's almost like radicalized Islam in a way where it's less about religion than it is about politics." After an outcry from the Jewish community and other conservatives, Beck apologized.