Glenn Beck Reverses His Reversal

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🗓️ 24 May 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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In November 2016, Bob spoke to Blaze bloviator Glenn Beck to hear about his opposition to Donald Trump. This weekend, Beck proudly donned on MAGA hat. Bob explains.

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0:00.0	Back in November of 2016, Glenn Beck, ex-CNN, X-Fox News Channel, current Bellows in chief at the website
0:11.6	The Blaze, was on a comprehensive PR tour, begging the media to accept him as a changed man.
0:18.7	He visited the camps of the enemy, Rolling Stone, Vice, Charlie Rose, MSNBC,
0:25.7	the New York Times to pronounce himself chastened and Donald Trump a historic threat. He was contrite,
0:33.5	introspective, empathetic. After a decade of vitriol incitement and literal demonization,
0:40.4	he was Beck peddling at 60 miles an hour. I'm reinforcing and I'm retooling for the future,
0:48.7	as everybody, every business should be, knowing that if you don't retool every three, four years,
0:54.0	you're going to be out of
0:54.5	business.
0:55.1	But last Saturday, Beck said this.
0:59.2	You know what?
0:59.8	I've had enough.
1:01.3	I'll vote for him in 2020.
1:04.3	Gladly, I'll vote for him in 2020.
1:08.9	Why the 180?
1:18.6	Beck says it's a reaction to the media's reaction to something Donald Trump said last Friday in a speech about immigrants. We have people coming into the country, are trying to come in. We're stopping a lot of them.
1:22.6	But we're taking people out of the country. You wouldn't believe how bad these people are.
1:29.0	These aren't people.
1:31.2	These are animals.
1:37.0	What got Beck's backup, he says, is that the media took Trump out of context.
1:42.8	He was talking about MS-13, the gang, not about all immigrants. And on Saturday, Beck was so triggered.
1:47.6	And I saw yesterday how the press was all reporting the same damn story that Donald Trump was calling
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