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Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor "Whopper"
The Looking Spoon ^ | 9-2-10 | Jared H. McAndersen

Posted on 09/02/2010 8:07:17 PM PDT by The Looking Spoon

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....his fib stands in stark contrast to the point of the rally, which was all about restoring the principles of courage and honor that the nation was founded upon. In fact, one of Beck’s only prescriptions for fixing the country was to "tell the truth."

via Mother Jones

This is it you guys! Like good ratings to the teflon MSNBC is made of the laughably low estimate on attendance for Restoring Honor wont stick, so lets pick out a few syllables about holding a sacred document that may not have actually happened to discredit the entire rally.

Restoring Honor was about...well, restoring honor. It wasn't a polemic, it wasn't in any way political. It was an affirmation of the values that made this country great in the first place. There's no way you can attempt to discredit that without looking like some lame liberal hall monitor.

How do we know he's lying anyway? According to the Mother Jones story (and I emphasize "story") someone would be in very deep doo doo stimulus if it was ever admitted that he touched a forbidden fruit of our history. So is Beck lying or is Susan Cooper, the spokesperson for the National Archives, covering someones rear?

You know what? I actually don't freakin' care! If Beck didn't tell the truth...so what? How does that tarnish the basic goodness what Restoring Honor set out to accomplish or its message?

RIDDLE ME THIS LIBERALS... If Bill Clinton, of all people, advised married couples against committing of adultery would such an admonishment be incorrect because of its source?

It was a three hour event and the only time Beck was put on a pedestal was when the people being honored thanked him for having the event. So is this REALLY the best you got libs?

But he should know what he is talking about, because NOW progressives think nothing he says is credible

:-(

Like this latest grasp at straws would affect liberals' opinion of the rally if the words weren't uttered? Furthermore, they carry water for a vice president who thinks TV was Franklin Roosevelts opiate to the masses in 1929 WHEN HE WAS PRESIDENT....THREE YEARS BEFORE HE WAS ELECTED.

Then they have a president who once said we have 57 states! I don't know, maybe it was in jest, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt when Beck gets it.

What message are they trying to convey anyway? Its cool if you're a liberal idiot and be elected leader of the free world, just don't be a conservative pundit that gets verbally carried away from time to time.


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TOPICS: Humor; Politics
KEYWORDS: glennbeck; motherjones; restoringhonor
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1 posted on 09/02/2010 8:07:21 PM PDT by The Looking Spoon
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To: The Looking Spoon

I have no idea what this is about.


2 posted on 09/02/2010 8:10:20 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck.)
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To: Eagles6

“I have no idea what this is about.”

Dittos to that.


3 posted on 09/02/2010 8:11:19 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Parley Baer

Double dittos.


4 posted on 09/02/2010 8:14:22 PM PDT by SuzyQue (Remember to think.)
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To: The Looking Spoon

Wow! He didn’t hold the actual fragile parchment in his hands?

Just discredits EVERYTHING he said.

You people need better ammo, really. What color is the sky in your world?


5 posted on 09/02/2010 8:19:17 PM PDT by mplsconservative (I stand with Israel.)
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To: Parley Baer; Eagles6; SuzyQue

Beck:

“I went to the National Archives, and I held the first inaugural address written in his own hand by George Washington.”

- - - - -

The woman at the National Archives (who wasn’t there, said ‘nobody but staff, handles the documents.’

Well, when I was at the WH, nobody gets into the Situation Room either, but the SS agent let us in, and I got to sit in President Bush’s chair!


6 posted on 09/02/2010 8:19:47 PM PDT by onyx (If you support Sarah and want on her Ping List, let me know!)
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To: Eagles6

Glad you said that. I thought I was losing it.


7 posted on 09/02/2010 8:19:53 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: The Looking Spoon

Hey if that broad in Hawaii wants us to believe she’s held the original Obama birth certificate, then I’ll also believe Glenn Beck held Washington’s original documents.


8 posted on 09/02/2010 8:20:13 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: The Looking Spoon

DUH????


9 posted on 09/02/2010 8:20:25 PM PDT by dalebert (true hillbilly)
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To: Eagles6
Wednesday night on MSNBC, Keith Olbermann helped expose a lie Glenn Beck told during his "Restoring Honor" rally this weekend,

"He's a great moment from the Beck Rapture, total crapture," Olbermann said introducing a clip in which Beck claimed to have visited the National Archives and held George Washington's handwritten first inaugural address in his hands.

"Little could Father Cough-Glenn over here know, but there are actually people at the National Archives to call him on his lies," Olbermann said.

According to the National Archives, Beck did visit and was shown Washington's inaugural address, but did not hold it.

"Those kinds of treasures are only handled by specially trained Archival staff," a spokeswoman said.

10 posted on 09/02/2010 8:20:25 PM PDT by hercuroc
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To: Eagles6
I have no idea what this is about.

It's about one of those guys in English 101 who insists
that, because he believes he is smart, proceeds to prove
he is not.

Remember him? He was the guy who was always leaning over
to everyone on all sides of him and whispering about the
stupidity of the professor or instructor.

Always getting bad grades in English because the professor
quit trying to understand the garbage he wrote.
11 posted on 09/02/2010 8:20:54 PM PDT by righttackle44 (I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine.)
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To: The Looking Spoon

Could he have been using a figure of speech—not literally meaning that he held it in his hands? My bet is yes.


12 posted on 09/02/2010 8:29:35 PM PDT by HwyChile
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To: righttackle44

You just described Barry Obama


13 posted on 09/02/2010 8:33:19 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: The Looking Spoon
Beck cradling the actual words of the first president.

Let me get this right. I am reading the actual words on this thread, but not cradling them in my hands?

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?

Help me here. I can't find it. Where did Beck say he had the actual document from the Archives?

Oh, wait, it's Mother Jones.

Sorry, I just wasted bandwidth.

5.56mm

14 posted on 09/02/2010 8:33:54 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Parley Baer

I don’t understand it either, but I thought it was late and I’m tired. Glad to know I’m in good company. :-)


15 posted on 09/02/2010 8:34:44 PM PDT by Humal
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To: Parley Baer

Mega dittos IBTZ ?


16 posted on 09/02/2010 8:34:59 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom REMEMBER FREE REPUBLIC IN YOUR WILL. I DID)
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To: HwyChile
Correct. Museum stores also sell replica copies of important historical documents. There reputable places which sell them online such as this.

By this idiot's standards, the Gideon Society would all be liars too for handing out New Testaments which they claim were written by the apostles of Jesus Christ.

17 posted on 09/02/2010 8:39:50 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: The Looking Spoon
You know what? I actually don't freakin' care! If Beck didn't tell the truth...so what? How does that tarnish the basic goodness what Restoring Honor set out to accomplish or its message?

"Kill the messenger". The left is so screwed up they find fault with anything good. They are so deep into evil they can't believe anyone is good.

18 posted on 09/02/2010 8:42:32 PM PDT by Razz Barry (Round'em up, send'em home.)
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To: HwyChile

Perhaps he “beheld” the speech with his eyes, that’s if a speech can be held or beheld 200 years after it was given. He could have held the draft of the speech I suppose. Which makes me wonder did Lincoln lie a Gettysburg when he said “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, . . .


19 posted on 09/02/2010 8:44:31 PM PDT by ALPAPilot
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To: al baby; Eagles6; Parley Baer; SuzyQue; Kirkwood; righttackle44; Humal; All

It comes across much better at the original URL...sorry its confusing here.

The paragraph in bold was from the Mother Jones article I was was linking to that criticized Beck saying he held Washington’s inaugural address...everything below that was me commenting on the matter.

Like I said...its more clear at the original post because I can box out the quotes and separate them from the commentary.

Sorry righttackle44, I’m not trying to be the smartest man in the room. Just sharing a post I wrote and working with what I have. :-)


20 posted on 09/02/2010 8:45:00 PM PDT by The Looking Spoon
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