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Glenn Beck threatens to fire employees who save energy

Right-wing loudmouth Glenn Beck has issued a memo to his minions warning he’ll fire any of his employees who use energy-saving compact fluorescent light bulbs.

“I’m dead serious,” Beck told his TV audience. “I fire the person that starts to purchase fluorescent light bulbs, unless that is the only light bulb for a very specific reason, and I want to be CC’d on what that reason is.”

He then upped the climate-of-fear warning: “If anyone does anything in this company because of global warming, they’re fired.”

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