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What Glenn Beck’s <em>Full Frontal</em> Interview Says About Samantha Bee

The right-wing firebrand, who has recanted much of his extreme rhetoric, said he saw a lot of himself in the TBS show host.
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Glenn Beck’s to political moderation has an almost suspiciously Dickensian quality to it. Here is a man once deemed too out-there for Fox News, who would bark right-wing conspiracy theories at his viewers every night, who now placidly preaches about the division he helped sow and says he’s very worried about the impending Trump administration. It’s an oddly dramatic turnaround. After all, Beck wrote in preaching empathy for the Black Lives Matter movement, while being credited at the bottom as the.

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