Beck & O'Reilly: boot Vermont out of the union for electing "socialist" Sanders to Senate

On his November 14 CNN Headline News program, while referring to Ben & Jerry's, the Vermont-based ice cream maker, Beck said that "we should take the ice cream factory without the two fat guys, and we should vote them out of the union," adding: "I think you should have a renewal period on every state. I think the rest of the country should vote whether you're a state or not anymore."

Similarly, on the November 16 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly blasted former state District Court Judge Edward Cashman for purportedly giving light sentences to sex offenders and declared that one of the men Cashman sentenced was given three to 10 years in prison, but is "probably going to be out at three because it's Vermont, a state that's left the union." O'Reilly then stated that "Vermont is now a state that is San Francisco values, secular-progressive all day long. They elect a socialist -- as we just talked with [Fox News political analyst] Dick Morris -- as a senator: Bernie Sanders." O'Reilly concluded: "I'm not even eating their maple syrup anymore. That's how bad it is."

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