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Beck: The New York Times Ripped Me Off

Last year, Glenn Beck promised to put on a show that was going to save the 4th of July(link is external) and change the way it was celebrated forever(link is external). What we ended up getting was some maudlin stage show(link is external) in which Beck talked to himself made up as the Man In The Moon:

Months later, The New York Times Magazine wrote an entirely unrelated article about Hillary Clinton's probable run for the presidency entitled "Planet Hillary(link is external)" and featuring this cover:

So now, of course, Beck is accusing(link is external) the Times of having ripped him off.

"I'm telling you," he said, "it is a direct rip-off of the Man In The Moon. I mean, it's incredible":

Do you know who else ripped Beck off? Georges Méliès(link is external) ... a hundred and eleven years before Beck's own extravaganza.