Glenn Beck: McCain Would Have Been Worse Than Obama

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Tuesday, September 22, 2009; 6:41 PM

By Garance Franke-Ruta Katie Couric picked a traffic magnet for her inaugural installment of @katiecouric, a new weekly "Web show" from the CBS Evening News anchor. Fox News host Glenn Beck, whose ratings and profile have soared this year as he has pummeled the Obama administration and become a rabble-rousing protest organizer, once again demonstrated his flair for creating viral new media moments, if the widely reproduced advance video excerpt from the show is any indication. "John McCain would have been worse for the country than Barack Obama," Beck told Couric. He also said that he might have cast his vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton rather than McCain if he had been faced with a choice between the two. "I can't believe I'm saying this, I think I would have much preferred her as president and may have voted for her against John McCain," Beck said, explaining that in


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