Do Your Research HuffPo: Washington Had Three Copies of Don Quixote

www.GlennBeck.com/ ^ | Feb 24, 2016 | Lori

[Yosemitest]

Unlike Glenn, the Huffington Post is evidently not a student of history — nor fond of research, for that matter.

Rather than publish with journalistic integrity, HuffPo decided to throw caution to the wind and publish an unsubstantiated hit piece

questioning the authenticity of a book Glenn owns and has taken along on the campaign trail.
The book in question is George Washington’s volume of Don Quixote.
The hit piece, titled “Mount Vernon Says It Owns George Washington’s Copy Of Don Quixote, Not Glenn Beck,” was published yesterday.

“The Huffington Post wrote a story, and it says,
you know, Glenn Beck’s people didn’t respond for comment.
Well, we weren’t given a chance to comment on a story.
They put a phone call in and then pushed print.
And they went to press on this story, as they called us.
We had no time to respond.
And it is the sloppiest journalism I have ever seen,” Glenn said Wednesday on The Glenn Beck Program.

So let’s fill in the blanks and do HuffPo’s work for them.

George Washington owned three copies of Don Quixote — two in English, one in Spanish.
The first English copy and the Spanish version are owned by Mount Vernon.
The second English copy is owned by Glenn.
That copy was given to Tobias Lear, George Washington’s personal secretary, who was at Washington’s bedside when he died.
He then gave it to his son, Benjamin Lincoln Lear.

“Mount Vernon will not deny that George Washington had three copies, and he gave one to Tobias Lear,” Glenn said.
“How do I know they won’t deny it?
Because there are records at Mount Vernon that show it.
He was a record keeper.”

The Don Quixote copy that Glenn now owns came from the Lear family through an auction in Maine.
It first went to the James D. Julia Auction House, a highly respected auction house,
and was bought by Bauman Books in New York.
Glenn purchased Lear’s copy of Don Quixote
(that was gifted to him by George Washington)
from Bauman Books in New York — and it’s all documented.

“Now, I don’t think you care at all about rare book dealers.
…But you know who does care? Me,” Glenn said.
“And here’s why:
Because people are now saying I’m dragging out a fake Washington book all around the country.
And now they’re starting to question the Washington compass, which also has documentation.”

When Glenn acquired Washington’s compass he was bidding against none other than Mount Vernon.
Their response upon losing it to another bidder:
“It doesn’t matter. Some day we’ll get it anyway.”

Both relics of Washington’s that Glenn has taken on the campaign trail — the copy of Don Quixote and the compass —
were acquired through the highest ethical standards and from the most reputable antiquities dealers.
And there’s documentation to prove it.

“If it’s fake, I’m going to file a gigantic lawsuit,” Glenn said.
“It will be a “uge” lawsuit.
It will be the most magnificent lawsuit you’ve ever seen.”

[chris37]

Did I say that?

No, you said that.

Please keep your words in your own mouth.

What is this an insane asylum now?

[Yosemitest]

"anybody who takes seriously anything HuffPo publishes
deserves the ignorance they get...."

WELL SAID !

[BigSkyVic]

LOL!!

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Earlier on FR:

Glenn Beck Admits He Misled Cruz Audiences About George Washington's 'Don Quixote'

[Yosemitest]

YOU HAVE ROTTON EGG ON YOUR FACE, HATER !

Rebecca Mansour wrote that LIE !

[SunkenCiv]

She did that, eh? Back in 05/24/2011? Really? She’s got ESP, eh?

http://dailycaller.com/2011/05/24/rebecca-mansours-direct-messages-the-full-text/

[Yosemitest]

Same writer, different article.
That was the only photo I could find of Rebecca Mansour.

[SunkenCiv]

[better link]

Glenn Beck has now admitted that he misled audiences at his campaign appearances for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) when he told them the copy of Don Quixote he held in his hand was the same copy that George Washington purchased on the day the Constitution was signed. Beck now admits that the copy he was displaying at Cruz rallies was actually printed in 1796 -- 9 years after the Constitution was signed.

Misled isn't accurate -- Beck said something that was not true.

[Yosemitest]

You're a LIAR !
You KNOW the article you LINKED is from a KNOW Glenn Beck HATER,
AND you KNOW that Glenn has DOCUMENTATION leading all the back to Tobias Lear's extended family.

SO ... that PROVES BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT ... that YOU ARE A LIAR !

[SunkenCiv]

Your posts prove that you've got your head up Glenn Beck's ass, and are an unhinged lying nutjob.

[Yosemitest]

Beck lives in your mind.
Glenn isn't the paper FACTS that are so EASILY VERIFIED.
Glenn didn't created the documentation book plate that says Benjamin Lincoln Lear.
Glenn didn't created the records at Mount Vernon that show that George Washington had three copies, and he gave one to Tobias Lear.
Glenn didn't create the documentation from James D. Julia Auction House, and Bauman Books in New York, that is "the provenance" of this particular copy of Don Quixote.

So, like I said before:

You're a LIAR !
You KNOW the article you LINKED is from a KNOWN Glenn Beck HATER,
AND you KNOW that Glenn has DOCUMENTATION leading all the back to Tobias Lear's extended family.

SO ... that PROVES BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT ... that YOU ARE A LIAR !

[untenured]

It doesn't seem to have come up so far on the thread, but I'm currently reading Don Quixote, and it is a wonderful book.

[Yosemitest]

I haven;t read it.
But Glenn's comment stirs my curiosity.

...
GLENN: ... The reason I brought the book out was
how was it George Washington — on the day they signed the Constitution,
what he said was, in his diary,
“Signed the Constitution today.
I pick up my copy of Don Quixote.”


So how — that book has always bothered me.
I look at it, and I’m like,
“Okay. What was he trying to say?
What was Don Quixote speaking to him about?
Why was this book so important?”


It really isn’t that.
Because to me that’s like somebody saying,
“I save the world today,
and I’m going to Barnes & Noble.”
What is that?
And so what it was, was
he finished the Constitution with purity,
with exactness.
He did exactly what he was supposed to do.
And as he said at the end of the Constitutional Convention,
the event is in the hand of God.

So he did exactly what he was supposed to do.
He knew that that a future generation would see the Constitution.
They would be faced with — he didn’t know what it would be,
but totalitarian, socialism, you know, or the status quo.
And people wouldn’t know which way to run.
And they — because they did the right thing, in his words,
they raised the standard to which
the wise and the honest would run to.
And so that allowed him to, when he finished say,
“Yeah. And I get to go read a good book.
I’ve heard these great things from this ambassador about this story.
I’ve got that book coming in.
I can sit under my tree on my farm and read.”


The point I’m trying to make with the book is:
When you do the right thing,
you can sleep at night.


And George Washington saw this time,
and he gave us the — he gave us where we should be going.
We shouldn’t be going to socialism.
We shouldn’t be going to a strongman.
We shouldn’t be looking for the status quo.
We should run to the Constitution.
Because it was done with exactness
and they could sleep at night,
and we’ll be able to sleep at night
because our answers are all contained there.
Our problems are because we didn’t adhere to the Constitution.
America, run to the Constitution.
The event is in the hand of God.

[SunkenCiv]

The source is irrelevant -- after being confronted with the FACTS, Beck himself admitted he had said something that WASN'T TRUE, now says the copy he has was printed NINE YEARS too late, WASN'T the copy that he had said it was. So HE LIED. And YOU LIE. And you're not even sophisticated about it, you're just an idiot.

[Yosemitest]

You can't recognize SARCASM from Glenn and his team.
You OBVIOUSLY don;t LISTEN or READ !

So, like I said before:

You're a LIAR !
You KNOW the article you LINKED is from a KNOWN Glenn Beck HATER,
AND you KNOW that Glenn has DOCUMENTATION leading all the back to Tobias Lear's extended family.

SO ... that PROVES BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT ... that YOU ARE A LIAR !