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POSTED BY: Niki2
UPDATED: Thursday, October 22, 2009 22:40
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:32 PM

Just for fun, and to show how insanely alternate-universe-bent the man is, here's just a few. Anyone who wants to contribute, provide further giggles:

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Beck: “We call them progressives now, but back in Samuel Adams’ day, they used to call them tyrants. A little later, I think they’re also called slave owners.”

At least a dozen of the “founding fathers”, at least 12 (maybe more) of the 56 signatories to the Constitution, owned slaves.

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Glenn Beck praises an obsolete provision of the U.S. Constitution that prohibited Congress from outlawing the slave trade before 1808 and capped taxes on the slave trade at $10 per slave. In his explanation of the provision, Beck does not mention slavery, saying instead that the provision means that the Founders apparently “felt like there was a value to being able to live here” and lamenting: “Not anymore. These days we can’t ask anything of immigrants — including that they abide by our laws.”

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He told his audience for several weeks running that he “could not disprove” the existence of concentration camps run by FEMA in which conservatives were to be rounded up.

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He accused Al Gore of creating a new “Hitler youth” by promoting environmental awareness among young people.


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Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:37 PM

Shhh! You'll upset him.



"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:40 PM

Awwww...I'm sowwy, wouldn't want to make the widdwe man cwy... Oh, but wait, he does that so well, doesn't he?

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