Beck Likens Food Stamps To “Cakes And Circuses” Used In Ancient Rome To “Control The People” Written by Media Matters Staff Published 06/07/11 5:40 PM EDT From the June 7 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck: Video file Previously: Historians Dismantle Beck's Roman History Lesson Beck: “Obama is Octavian ... the last guy of the Republic before it went into an empire” -- “this is what's happening to us” Beck: “We are being pushed into an empire” like Rome