During his first post-Restoring-Honor-rally show last Monday, Glenn Beck demonstrated the "contempt" of The Huffington Post by showing his audience some of the photos included in a HuffPost slide show titled "Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor Rally: The Most Ridiculous Messages," which showed some of the messages on the clothing and buttons worn by rally attendees.
Beck, of course, in showing how "contemptible" HuffPost is, didn't show the slide show photos of the people in their "Got Tea?" and other Tea Party t-shirts, or the "Give me Liber-TEA," "I Love My Gun," and "Obama's Worst Nightmare" buttons. After all, Beck had insisted that this was not going to be a Tea Party rally, and had asked the attendees to leave their Tea Party and anti-Obama signs at home. And, following the instructions of their leader, they did. They just displayed their Tea Party messages on their persons instead. So, Beck carefully selected a few photos of people merely looking suitably patriotic in their red, white, and blue and rally-themed "Restoring Honor" attire, and then questioned how anyone could possibly think these people were ridiculous.
But the photo that caught my attention was one of the back of someone's t-shirt, which Beck showed twice, saying, "This is a quote from George Washington -- ridiculous."
Well, Mr. Beck, I would never call a quote from George Washington ridiculous, but I will call the one on that t-shirt what it is -- a fake! Your new pal David Barton should be able to tell you all about that, since even he himself tells his followers not to use this quote. Of course, good old David didn't say anything when John Hagee used this same fake quote on your show a while back, although he was also one of your guests that day, and sitting only a few feet from Hagee. So, you might just want to go to your pal David's own website, where he has his list of "Unconfirmed Quotations" -- a list of quotes that he himself tells his website readers to "refrain from using ... until such time that an original primary source may be found." This George Washington quote is #2 on the list.
Here's that clip of John Hagee using this fake quote on your show, Mr. Beck:
Now, your pal David will probably say that when he put out his list of taboo quotes over a decade ago, it was merely because he had decided, being such a diligent scholar, to raise the academic standards of his work. But nobody actually buys that. Plain and simple, he got called out by some real historians on some of the bogus quotes that he had used in his 1988 book The Myth of Separation, largely because of Rush Limbaugh's repeated use of one of these bogus quotes. So, he put out his little list of quotes he wasn't going to use anymore, fine-tuned many of the other lies from his 1988 book, and put out a new book, Original Intent, that didn't contain those particular quotes. (His new book still contained plenty of misquotes -- just not those particular ones.)
Of course, Mr. Beck, despite what he says on his website, you should know that your pal David doesn't really want his followers and minions to stop using the quotes on his list, as evidenced not only by his silence when John Hagee used one of these quotes on your show, but by the fact that six of these quotes were included in the National Council On Bible Curriculum in Public Schools curriculum, a curriculum whose advisory board includes ... um ... David Barton.
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I swear, CNN, MSNBC, ABC. or someone should create a show that comes on two hours after his ends titled, "Beck's Lies". The show would have a panel of people like you, Media Matters, Stop Beck and others and would call out each of Beck's and/or guests lies. It would be awesome!!!
Anyway, thank you again for all the articles you write and information you share!! I look forward to reading many more!!
Peace and Take Care!
PS: I have been watching his show everyday for a year and before anyone wants to argue that what he does isn't lying, it is. The definition of the word LIE is: a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; something intended or serving to convey a false impression.
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"You are my creator, but I am your master—obey!" -The Monster, Ch. 20
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When will rigid ideology, religious zealotry and anti-intellectualism play itself out? Can history tell us anything?
"Glenn Beck is to America what mold is to bread"
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>>But let me give you the words of George Washington, "It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible."
1. Had wooden teeth.
2. Slept everywhere.
3. Would have hated Glenn Beck.
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never know when you'll need the "truth" and they are obviously saving it for a rainy day
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Washington and Jefferson were vestrymen in the Anglican church, but lots of wealthy landowners in Virginia were vestrymen, not because of religious devotion, but because the vestry was their local government before separation from England. Even the Episcopalian Bishop in Virginia (who's name I cant recall) wrote that Jefferson was just a vestryman because he wanted to be a man of influence. I don't even speculate about what their real religious views were. Jefferson actually wrote that he was a sect unto himself, so I don't know how anyone today thinks that they can say for sure what he believed when he himself couldn't even define what he believed. Jefferson, of course, vigilantly kept religion out of government, and Washington just made a lot of deistic-type comments.
Madison, whose religious views are a complete mystery, wouldn't even answer correspondence from any religious groups or leaders while he was president.
Monroe was not religious at all, and may actually have been the least religious of all our early presidents, but nobody has paid much attention to him in the church/state debate.