The Top 10 Everything of 2009

TIME charts the highs and lows of the past year in 50 wide-ranging lists

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7. Glenn Beck: Too Wacky Even for Colbert

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"The 9/12 project is not for families directly affected by 9/11, just people building their careers on it."

Stephen Colbert, on Glenn Beck's movement to return to the spirit of September 12, when "we were united as Americans, standing together to protect the greatest nation ever"

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