"YOU LIE!"

Real honorable, Beck, lying to all those old white people:

During his much-ballyhooed "Restoring Honor" rally on Saturday, Glenn Beck told a whopper involving the founding father who was supposedly unable to tell a lie: George Washington.

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Beck also invoked Washington while describing the inspiring experience of visiting famous tourist destinations around the nation's capital. "I have been going to Mt. Vernon," he explained. Holding out his hands for emphasis, he declared with emotion, "I went to the National Archives, and I held the first inaugural address written in his own hand by George Washington."

It was an eyebrow-raising revelation and certainly an original image: Beck cradling the actual words of the first president. But would the persnickety gatekeepers of the nation's historical legacy at the National Archives allow some talk show bombthrower to put his mitts on a rare (and fragile) artifact? The answer, it turns out, is no way. Beck was not telling the truth.

Like everything else Beck says or does, the truth is just an obstacle in the way of a quick buck.

Comments

[EvilDrPuma]

Of course the folks at the NA wouldn't let Beck near the manuscript. He'd get Vix all over it.

[sukabi]

this is surprising??? His lips were moving after all.

[Carol]

It doesn't matter what the National Archives people say. If Beck said it then his people believe it. Anyone who contradicts Beck is just a 'libral' who hates the America.

[pansypoo]

beckkk should be pantsless by now.

[EvilDrPuma]

beckkk should be pantsless by now.

I'm kind of glad he isn't.

[montag]

When Beck read 1984, he thought it was an instruction manual.

[Teddy Partridge]

The Beckys don't really care about the truth, they just want comforting stories. They know THEY'll never touch the First Inaugural, and they probably know Beck didn't either. But, like everything else in their world -- Obama's a Muslin, Kenyan, Socialist, illegitimate Preznit -- it comforts them, as all the lies around them do.

[pansypoo]

was there an actual 1st inaugural?

[montag]

was there an actual 1st inaugural?

Yes, delivered on April 30, 1789, before a joint session of Congress, in the Senate chambers.

[JimmyDean'sFuckedUpThirdCousinOnceRemovedClyde]

What Beck meant to say was, " I held it in my own two hands near that first Inaugural Address written by Washington himself"----as if he could even find it, or if he could, as if one hand wasn't far more than needed.

[pansypoo]

i wonder if it's in my presidential papers books.