Beck theorizes government trying to “keep the masses opiated”: “No salt but heroin for everybody” Written by Media Matters Staff Published 01/13/10 10:49 AM EST From the January 13 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program: Video file Previously: Beck suggests U.S. on course to make same “mistake[s] that Germany made during Weimar Republic” Beck's economic forecast: “The Great Depression times 100” or hyperinflation like the Weimar Republic Beck says “the Germans” during Hitler's rise “were an awful lot like we are now”