{"id":4291,"date":"2011-01-10T12:25:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T17:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=4291"},"modified":"2011-01-10T12:25:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T17:25:34","slug":"the-tucson-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=4291","title":{"rendered":"The Tucson Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
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<a href="https://raceflowdevelopment.com/customer-service/"></a> On the other hand, those Glen Beck rants get taken a bit too seriously by some of his more deranged listeners, as Timothy Egan <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/09\/tombstone-politics\/?ref=opinion\" target=\"_blank\">informs<\/a> us:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
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<a href="https://forgive123.com/travel/">https://forgive123.com/travel/</a> But it was Beck who said &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/201003230062\" target=\"_blank\">the war is just beginning,<\/a>&#8221; after the health care bill was passed. And it was Beck who  re-introduced the paranoid and racist rants of a 1950s-era John Birch  Society supporter, W. Cleon Skousen, who said a one-world government  cabal was plotting a takeover.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
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