Zactly! “Held” with his eyes? “Held” in his heart? “Held” in the white gloved hands of the person working in the archives with his hands placed under that person’s?
Sheesh. If the Mother Jones idiot thinks s/he hit gold, it was fool’s gold. LOL.
One actual definition of “held”: to have or keep in the mind; think or believe: We hold this belief. See dictionary.com
So Beck could have literally held those documents.
What, parsing too much? Not nearly as much as “57 states,” “depends on what the meaning of is is,” and “my muslim faith”!