“I know, I know, I'm going to be called a hatemonger for this, you know, conversation that we have, whatever, that's fine. They also called people like Benjamin Franklin a hatemonger. They said that he was crazy. I wonder if they've said that about me yet. Yeah, Benjamin Franklin was crazy, he was the first real abolitionist. Boy that man stood up every single time. And in our modern-day slavery, I will be happy to be called crazy right along with Benjamin Franklin.”

— Glenn Beck

Glenn Beck
Television
Fox News
2009-10-09
After ranting about how "illegal immigration is modern-day slavery," Beck compares himself to Ben Franklin
Media Matters for America
2009-10-09
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200910090056
2000s, 2009

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