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[StephanieVanbryce]

...Cleon Skousen - the man glenn beck Idolizes & has modeled himself after .

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/16/beck_skousen

more on Skousen - Glenn Beck chases "far left radicals" in White House, but loves right-wing radicals himself
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/glenn-beck-chases-far-left-radicals

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We noticed this back when it first surfaced amid a raft of other Beck wingnuttia. This week, Alexander Zaitchik in Salon published a devastating rundown of perhaps the foundation of Beck's radicalism: His ardent adoption of the ideology espoused by W. Cleon Skousen, one of the most radical of the old "Church-Birch Connection" gang of LDS elders who spread Bircherirsm throughout Mormon-land. (I remember seeing The Naked Communist on the bookshelf of many of the Mormon homes I grew up around in southern Idaho, including several in my family.) Salty City Sinner noticed the Skousen connection back in March too.

Skousen, as Zaitchik explains, was so far out on the fringe he even made the Birchers nervous: