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Beck defends his attacks on Obama's father: “I hate to get third grade, but he started it”

Written by Media Matters Staff

Published 08/11/10 12:25 PM EDT

From the August 11 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:

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Previously:

Beck: Obama has “clearly been heavily influenced in his political ideology” by his father, Jeremiah Wright

Beck: Obama and his father's dreams “are not the dreams of my dad” or “Martin Luther King's father”

Beck: “Congratulations to the Obama family” for achieving dreams from his father of “Marxism”

Beck continues smearing Obama via his father's purported “dreams” of “old-style Soviet Marxism”

Glenn Beck: Don't judge anyone based on the “sins of the father”... except Obama

Beck dreams up new dreams from Obama's father

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