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Beck romanticizes poverty depicted in photo from the Great Depression

Written by Media Matters Staff

Published 11/30/10 6:48 PM EST

From the November 30 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck:

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Previously:

Beck: “We have been sold a lie” that “the poor in America” are suffering

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Multimillionaire Beck wonders if people who “pay nothing” in income taxes should “serve in the military”

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