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Beck: Progressives Are Like Slave Owners

Plus, Fox News host is now traveling with an armed guard

By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 21, 2009 7:11 AM CDT

(Newser) – Glenn Beck’s latest metaphor: Progressives are like slave owners. He came up with this one last night while bemoaning the thousands of people in Detroit who lined up to apply for, as he called it, “free government money that we don’t know where it came from,” Gawker reports. He led off his report by explaining that progressives, who are “chipping away at your individual freedoms,” used to be called tyrants.

“A little later I think they were also called slave owners,” he continued. “People that encourage you to become more dependent on them.” In related news, Beck has taken to traveling with an armed guard. Fellow guests at a preview of the Broadway musical Memphis tell the New York Post that Beck’s bodyguard, concealing a gun under his jacket, accompanied the Fox News host even to the men’s room.

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Radio talk show host Glenn Beck gestures to the crowd at the Rally for America event at Marshall University Stadium May 24, 2003 in Huntington, West Virginia. (Getty Images)

In this March 12, 2003 file photo, conservative radio and television personality Glenn Beck is shown doing his radio show in Bala Cynwyd, Pa. (AP Photo/Mike Mergen, file)

In this March 12, 2003 file photo, syndicated radio host Glenn Beck is seen after recording promotional announcements for an upcoming "Rally for America" in Bala Cynwyd, Pa. (AP Photo/Mike Mergen, file)

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OWLWOMANXXXX

Oct 22, 2009 12:54 PM CDT

the world would be better off if we just ignored the likes of Beck and limbaugh

Corona_Kinq

Oct 21, 2009 12:58 PM CDT

I remember when you used to post decent conservative arguments on this site paul, wtf happened?

myvoice

Oct 21, 2009 12:57 PM CDT

I can argue this Citriass.... Beck is Mormon right? and he has the gall to talk about progressives and relating them to slave owners? Well Mormons are (in their belief, ) racists. Black are cursed to Mormons because they didn't take sides between Lucifer and Jesus in the "preexistence". Hence justifying their belief that black people should not be allowed (until recently) in their religion Beck=Mormon=racist!

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Beck: Progressives Are Like Slave Owners