Glenn Beck admits lying at rally because he thought it would be a little easier in the speech

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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After being called on a white lie he told during his Restoring Honor rally, Glenn Beck admitted Thursday that he stretched the truth because he "thought it would be a little easier."

Beck had claimed that he held George Washington's handwritten first Inaugural Address in his hands at the National Archives, but a spokeswoman at the institution said he did no such thing. Keith Olbermann, Ed Schultz and others called him out for the fabrication.

Thursday on his radio show, Beck copped to the lie.

"I thought it would be a little easier in the speech," Beck said, than to go into the following elaborate explanation (via Mediaite):

Yesterday I went to the National Archives, and they opened up the vault, and they put on their gloves and then they put it on a tray. They wheeled it over and it's all in this hard plastic and you're sitting down at a table and you can't, because of Sandy Berger, I had a long conversation with him about this, you can't actually touch any of the documents, these are very very rare. So what they do, they have it in this plastic thing and they hold them right in front of you, you can't touch them but then you can say 'can you turn it over,' and then they turn it over for you and then you look at it. I thought it was a little clumsy to explain it that way.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/03/glenn-beck-admits-lying-i_n_704958.html

[alstephenson]

1. Liar.

[madmax]

2. Not surprised.

Every statement he utters is a lie. Screw him, he's just a douche bag.

[Gman]

3. And he laughs about it

[Amerigo Vespucci]

9. Laughter and snark...the same way he approached his sexual harassment "apology."

He's a sarcastic little worm. He's Sarah Palin with a penis.

[county worker]

4. He said he was going to let God be his speech writer.

So God's he liar!

[mfcorey1]

5. In his new life as a pentecostal preacher, he had to confess. But in his new role as God, he is

automatically forgiven by the people.

[TxVietVet]

30. A mormon pentacostal preacher if there is such a thing.

[Submariner]

6. "Restoring Honor" by "Lying?"

I guess that makes sense in the republican teabagger party world. It goes with their up is down, and black is white theory of reality.

Nice try Glenn, you pissant f'ing LIAR.

[davidinalameda]

7. this has to be one of the biggest fails that I've seen in a while

he held it-it was held in front of him

if this is the best criticism that people can come up with, then we're in real trouble

[V_Byl]

10. Seriously, huge fail.

Honestly, I'd say that Obama admitting he didn't know who 'Snooky' was on the view is actually a bigger deal.

Both petty - who gives a rip - I'd like to think there's a bigger picture out there.

[CLANG]

11. I think it's important to challenge his lies. He lies about everything.

If you don't think he should be challenged, then you're in real trouble!

[davidinalameda]

33. you're right

but when you use this type of stuff as an example, people think you're grasping at straws and ignore the more important ones

[CLANG]

42. In this case I don't feel less is more.

I think the media should hit him over the head with EVERY lie he tells, until it becomes apparent to all that he is just a nutcase.

[V_Byl]

39. ...as much as I hate listening to Beck...

if you listen to the clip, he wants "the left" to freak out and call him a liar over this little irrelevant BS, so when we point out something that is a serious issue he can recall how "the left" freaks out about everything.

Totally playing right into his BS game if you ask me.

[CLANG]

43. Not if you call him out on EVERY lie, you're not playing into his game.

[mrcheerful]

17. Not when you put into context of the speech Beck made about said document

GB.."I went to the archives where they keep all those important documents and asked to see G Washington's 1st speech. I then picked it up and held it with my own two hands sob sob sob, I was inspired" Yeah that sounds so much better then I went to the archives and they let me see the Washington document. By saying he held it in his hands is laying claim that he is special and more divine then the lowly peasants who can only look at any documents. Everything is about putting things into prospect, by not letting the great G beck touch, GB can't claim he is better then any other tourist that gets to the archives. But it isn't the only thing GB has done, this is just another example on how GB lies to be seen as special.

[davidinalameda]

35. did he press his nose up agains the glass

like the rest of the unwashed masses, me included

no matter how much we don't like him-he is special

very dangerous but still very special

[eleny]

25. Except that it made it appear that he was ever so special

And the crowd went ooh and aaah and he ate that up.

Sure it's all petty but Beck did it for a reason and it was one of his special moments like the geese flying overhead being sent my god.

What's necessary is to point out every stupid, petty lie he utters to make him realize that people are now watching him even more closely. There's just so many times that you can apologize and explain before it's something he'd have to do every damned day. Puts a crimp in Beck's act.

I hope it keeps him from getting his beauty sleep knowing that now he's in a little war of sorts with Olbermann. O'Reilly didn't fare very well getting into that. I'm liking how Keith yanks down Beck's pants night after night exposing his kinks n' wrinkles. And I'm sure that Beck hates it.

[Roy Rolling]

8. useless information

So to tell the truth is "too much useless information" as Beck says? Yeah, sometimes the truth is a little inconvenient and that is the difference between lying and telling the truth. That is the evil of power-hungry people: they think they get to decide what is the truth and what is a lie according to their own lack of morals. But it is simple: the truth is what actually happens and a lie is when you say something happened but it didn't---which is the whole strategy of Fox News.

[CLANG]

12. The truth truly is "useless" to him. It's inconvenient. Lies are much better at spreading propaganda

[herbm]

13. Lying has always been a conveniant alternative to the truth for Glen Beck.

[Dookiestix]

15. What a stunning display of the blind leading the stupid

Even his idiot sidekick wants to sound just like Beck with his Kermit voice. WTF??? These people are certifiable, and yet they continuously pat themselves on the back for "sounding" Sooo clever. As if everybody at Beck's idiot rally should have known that he couldn't really physically hold the document.

Glenn Beck: a self-professed rodeo clown who thinks that everybody who takes him seriously is an idiot. And yet look how many thousands of idiots showed up last Saturday.

[herbm]

44. I really think these guys think they got a finger on the pulse of the nation even though they only

circle jerk with a select few. Why hasn't the President and Congress taken off the gloves?

[madmom]

14. Lies make lots of things easier, does that mean it's okay to do them? n/t

[DefenseLawyer]

16. I have here in my hand a list of 205 known communists. n/t

[rasputin1952]

18. Hmmm..."I thought it was a little clumsy to explain it that way."...

Not as clumsy as trying to explain why you lied to the people that believe in your snake oil.

Ah, for good old Biblical Days, when hypocrites took some serious lightning...

[Hassin Bin Sober]

32. And not as clumsy as adding another lie to your explanation:

you're sitting down at a table and you can't, because of Sandy Berger, I had a long conversation with him about this, you can't actually touch any of the documents,

Really, Glenn? One could handle the 230 year old fragile historical documents BEFORE Sandy Burger? They told you that? It looks like anther call to the National Archives is warranted.

[Enrique]

19. Whoopi Goldberg told Beck to his face what he is

on TV, she called him a "lying sack of dog mess." And he admitted it.

[valerief]

20. Every damn thing he said was a lie anyway. nt

[1American]

21. Glenn Beck, the liar

Hee, hee, hee, it was just LITTLE lie....just like all the LITTLE lies he tells, but, hey, Jesus loves him more than all others, after all!

[Plucketeer]

22. Once again, they caught me.

It's not like we catch only little white lies, Glenn. EVERYTHING you say is said in the overall perpetration of a "lie". When you use factual points to construct a lie, using those facts does not make the end point less egregious! Friggin' idiot!

[JenniferJuniper]

23. Especially love the guy in the baseball cap's comment...

"We could have gone with the idea where we just flashed large disclaimers on the screen for every single sentence."

And Beck, "Once again, they caught me."

They are shamelessly laughing their asses off over the huge BS stunt they pulled off on their own fan base. And still the idiot followers can't see it.

[eleny]

27. Now that was a Lonseome Rhodes moment

[WhoIsNumberNone]

24. He makes like it no big deal that he "modified the truth"

He's engaging in reductio ad absursdum when he goes into all that detail about the process. He could have just said "George Washington's first inaugural address was held in front of me", but that wouldn't have had the same effect on his drooling followers would it? You don't get the same anointing from just seeing a "Holy Document" as you do from actually touching it, do you? It's like the difference between being able to say "I saw the Pope" and "I touched the Pope".

Nice try Glennie

FAIL!

[lumpy]

26. Beck said it that way because a little white lie was more

impressive. More dramatic; he thrives on drama. So did Hitler.

[penndragon69]

28. Adolf Htler lives.

And he's channeling glen beckenstein.

[eleny]

29. K&R

[handmade34]

31. the truth is difficult sometimes

but it is pretty important Mr. Beck. I am so sad that so many people listen and believe this man...

[tanyev]

34. Somebody needs to take Truth 101 at GBU.

Heck, they might even waive the admission fees for him.

[JDPriestly]

36. Glenn Beck thinks that lying and exaggerating is normal. He

no doubt cheated in school too. For him, it's just what he does.

So now we know based not just on the fact that he lied in his speech but that he views that lie as so unimportant, that Glenn Beck is quite comfortable with telling a lie. Let's see. He lied in his speech right in the mall, a place built to commemorate the greatest of our leaders and our national spirit. He lied to thousands of Americans standing in front of him. He lied about something that he did not need to lie about because his speech would have been just as graphic had he said he stood in the presence of the first inaugural speech.

Now the question is: Based on that evidence, is Glenn Beck a liar? I report. You decide.

[TxVietVet]

37. The conservanazi has no problems at all with lying.

That's part of their nature. The bigger the lie, the better. Over and over again. Just like Adolf Hitler taught them.

Personally, his religion has a problem with the truth so it's natural for him to lie.

[JBoy]

38. In that case, I had sex with Farrah Fawcett back in the 70s.

Technically, it was with my poster of Farrah Fawcett, but it's easier to just say it was with her.

[zeemike]

40. What you too?

That Fara is such a slut.

[mrcheerful]

41. Wow no Linda Lovelace gagging bragging damn I'm getting old