Glenn Beck Compares Ron Paul To Osama Bin Laden

Glenn Beck has taken his GBTV operation to Texas, but just because he isn’t near his friend Bill O’Reilly doesn’t mean he will neglect to visit the Factor. O’Reilly returned to Fox News tonight to discuss Monday’s debate and give every candidate reviews, and Rep. Ron Paul got by far the worst of it as Beck shushed the candidate and told him he sounded like Osama Bin Laden.

“Ron Paul needs to shhhhhh on foreign policy,” Beck suggested, “You sound a little like Osama Bin Laden at times,” he told O’Reilly. “It’s not America’s fault, and I don’t think Ron Paul gets that,” he noted, to which O’Reilly added, “and he never will.”

They then moved on to other candidates– Beck going on about Newt Gingrich being both the “the best at a debate” and a “big government progressive,” chiding him for quoting Andrew Jackson during the debate. “This guy has quoted and loved every President I think is despicable!” he concluded, though added that Gingrich was “right on the Middle East.” As for the frontrunner, “Mitt Romney scares me because I don’t think he sees the Fed as a problem.”

Ultimately, Beck concluded that he had a “gut feeling Mitt Romney is going to be the nominee,” but that he would vote for a shoe over President Barack Obama (in true Beck form, he brandished a shoe at O’Reilly while making this point).

The segment via Fox News below:

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