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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... Read full story »

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