Who has more admirers — the pope or Glenn Beck?

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When Glenn Beck heard that a poll reportedly showed he had more admirers than the pope, the conservative talk show host reacted with mock horror, saying the poll results were “a sign of the apocalypse.”

“It is so disturbing,” he said on his radio show. “It’s so wrong. … When somebody phoned me up [with the news], I said, ‘Shut the hell up!’ … None of it’s good news for the world.”

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