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All ATX users should have received the email.

Please note, Glenn didn't take any credit for it. He wanted to give credit to his email reader, who didn't want to be named. The only person Glenn was congratulating was God himself. If you can prove this is fake, then we will talk. Typical small minded liberal, ad hominem attack, without any evidence to prove this a fraud. Are you foolish enough to think people don't do things like this? I have a friend who has spent 22 years working with suicidal people. Maybe it's a hoax, maybe it's not, but there have been many REAL incidents just like this. But God does allow miracles to happen.

I think the easiest way to eliminate 99% of tax-refund identity theft is to require taxpayers to input last year's AGI when they efile. That's the way efile started, remember? The IRS eventually eliminated that requirement because at that time, they were under pressure to increase efiling and were trying to make it as easy as possible for taxpayers. By now efiling has caught on and the IRS is ahead of its mandated goals. So let's take a step backward and ask filers to report last year's AGI. The identity thieves won't have that info and will be stopped in their tracks.

My God! Your hatred of conservatives is more extreme than I could have imagined. Sure, some guy is going to put himself in position to be locked up as a mental case, to help promote a show? Come on!

Judy, I'm going to lock this thread, but first just let me explain that what upset me so much was that I posted it primarily because of the message at the end, plus the fact that my friend agreed with me that Glenn's message to the disturbed individual was a great one to remember if you ever find yourself in the position of needing to talk to someone about to attempt suicide. To have her react not to the message, but just to the fact that Beck was involved, really did hit me hard in a bad way. I've lost someone I loved to suicide, so her suggesting it was just a stunt, with no basis, really upset me. Let's leave it at that.

I don't have any big hatred of the conservative talk shows or their hosts, but I have to admit that I had the same reaction that this story may be fabricated. Maybe it's to protect this person's identity, but because of the way this was written there's nothing in it that can be substantiated. To be totally fair to Mr. Beck, I'll go one step further and say that I would have had the same reaction no matter the source because I've seen too many instances of friends posting stories such as this one that get passed around on social media sites that are later found out to be totally false or fabricated. I shared a story 2 days ago that was a warning of a scam and within a few minutes one of my friends provided me with the facts that what I'd shared was not true at all.