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ABC News hearts Glenn Beck

June 10, 2009 10:28 am ET by Eric Boehlert

These puff pieces pretty much write themselves at this point. Although this effort from ABC's John Stossel is particularly puffy.

See, Beck's a funny guy, who holds Democrats and Republicans accountable. He's just like that guy from Network. He speaks up for the little guy. Yadda, yadda, yadda.

Yet here are some Beck-related phrases missing from the velvety-soft profile, "racist," "Hispanic chick lady," "Adolf Hitler," "Brown shirt stuff," "Goebbels."

BTW, if Beck's so insightful and entertaining why doesn't ABC ever have him on the air? ABC's Good Morning America hired him to be a regular commentator but virtually never had him on the show. What do ABC's GMA producers knows that John Stossel does not? (Well, besides all that....)

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    • Author by NiceguyEddie (June 10, 2009 10:53 am ET)
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      He's a bafoon. They dragged him out of the gutter a decade ago, hosed him off and sobered only to find out that he STILL doens't make any sense.
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    • Author by nerzog (June 10, 2009 10:54 am ET)
         
      I think this fuzzy-headed douchebag may, in some ways, be even more damaging to the National IQ than Rush Limbaugh. Underneath that aw-shucks everyman veneer is a Religious Nutbag with racist paranoid tendencies.

      You have to wonder how many unhinged militia cretins are taking in his nonsense and becoming even more paranoid than they already are.
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    • Author by mk3872 (June 10, 2009 10:56 am ET)
         
      All you need to know is that his was authored by John Stossel.

      He's looking at for his peeps here and Glenn Beck is #1 on his list of loves.
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