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Glenn Beck Interview on GBTV and Whether He’ll Be ‘Bigger Than Oprah’

Former Fox News firebrand Glenn Beck is busy building a Winfrey-esque empire, he tells McKay Coppins.

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It’s minutes to airtime, and the set of Glenn Beck’s new online television network, GBTV, is a hive of harried producers and technicians. Directors shout into headsets, cameramen fiddle with equipment, and a young-looking stagehand carefully scrawls the words “MARXIST REVOLUTIONARIES HAVE UNITED GLOBALLY” on a custom-designed, three-sided chalkboard.

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