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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:

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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

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