September 3, 2010

What Harper & Glenn Beck Have in Common

Paul Wells, Maclean's

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How was your week? Glenn Beck’s was pretty good, thanks. On Saturday he stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and faced a crowd conservatively estimated at one million people (but liberally estimated at 87,000). "Something that is beyond man is happening," Beck said. "America today begins to turn back to God."

Two days later, Beck launched an Internet news website, The Blaze. ("The flame of freedom is dwindling," he told a different crowd last week. "If you don’t want it to go out on our watch,...

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