Beck Responds To “Media Myth” That He Started Obama “Socialist” Smear By Calling Obama A Socialist Written by Media Matters Staff Published 05/26/11 12:31 PM EDT From the May 26 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program: Video file Previously: Beck Suggests Obama Has “Big-Government, Socialist, Or -- Dare I Say It -- Thug-Like Tendencies” Beck's “America's First Christmas”: Santa Beck gives Obama a “socialist mop” Beck says Obama can be considered a socialist, because Marxism and progressivism are “the same thing” Beck pushes bogus “evidence of socialism” in Obama's policies