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 ::::The Washington Post had a pretty thorough analysis of the incident: ""Until he starts trading bons mots with Diane Sawyer, Beck remains best known for what surely is his most embarrassing moment. It happened in mid-November, when Beck invited the country's first Muslim congressman, newly elected Democrat Keith Ellison of Minnesota, on the show"" 
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 Three groups have written to ABC urging the network to keep Beck off ""GMA,"" the Associated Press reported yesterday. ""That blatant anti-Arab, anti-Muslim bias has been given credibility on a larger news show is something that concerns us,"" Arab American Institute spokeswoman Jennifer Kauffman told the AP. 

 When ""The Daily Show"" re-aired the clip of Beck's question to Ellison, host Jon Stewart followed up with this thought: ""Finally, a guy who says what people who aren't thinking are thinking.""  "