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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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To: onyx
depends on what the meaning of “Held it” is?

Seriously though, this is really nit picking.

With everyone/groups making new alliances I think the entertainment factor pre Nov 2010 is going to be like a great display of Fireworks on the 4th of July. JMO

41 posted on 09/02/2010 10:54:50 PM PDT by Global2010
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To: Razz Barry
The very nice agent volunteered to show us the Situation Room (entrance would otherwise be very difficult to spot) and even gave me some special President Bush signature candy in a nice box. :)

The document Glenn 'held' is surely encased or or maybe he 'held' it with his eyes. I mean if this is what the nitpickers at the unseemly Mother Jones have, well, they can go to hell..lol.

42 posted on 09/02/2010 11:05:48 PM PDT by onyx (If you support Sarah and want on her Ping List, let me know!)
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To: The Looking Spoon

This illiterate idiot doesn’t understand the Founders’ words, let alone what Beck said.

Beck was holding the WORDS written by the Founders’ own hands. Not the piece of paper, but the WORDS. That’s what he said.

To be blunt, the paper itself has great historical value, but the words have far more value.

Those WORDS written by the Founders’ own hands can be held in ours. I could Google them right now. The paper? No. The words? Yes. Those very words they wrote.

If we don’t turn the tide, that won’t be possible faster than most can imagine. Faith in those words and the Word that inspired them is already enough for the obamanation’s administration to consider you a possible terrorist threat. Soon, possession of those words itself could be a crime unless we change course soon.

Fortunately, it looks like we are...


43 posted on 09/02/2010 11:10:08 PM PDT by piytar (Those who never learned that peace and freedom are rare will be taught by reality.)
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To: Global2010

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.


44 posted on 09/02/2010 11:11:00 PM PDT by onyx (If you support Sarah and want on her Ping List, let me know!)
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To: The Looking Spoon

Oooh, apparently he did claim to have held the document. Instead, it was brought out and he got to see it.

Wow. IMPEACH BECK! What, he isn’t President? And this “lie” pales in comparison to the lies obamanation spews daily? Who cares! Obama is on the “correct” side, so he cannot sin! Beck is eeeevvvviiilllllllll! He MUST be SILENCED! /hurl


45 posted on 09/02/2010 11:19:30 PM PDT by piytar (Those who never learned that peace and freedom are rare will be taught by reality.)
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To: onyx

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”!


46 posted on 09/02/2010 11:25:32 PM PDT by piytar (Those who never learned that peace and freedom are rare will be taught by reality.)
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To: piytar

Well, precisely. That’s the point I was trying to make in my comments #42 and #44.

“I held the cab.” (Not in my hand!)

I’m telling ya. Those people are out of their tiny, twisted minds.


47 posted on 09/02/2010 11:43:22 PM PDT by onyx (If you support Sarah and want on her Ping List, let me know!)
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To: dr_lew; onyx
In the Public Vaults, the permanent exhibit in the National Archives Experience, you can experience the feeling of going beyond the walls of the Rotunda into the stacks and vaults of the National Archives. Here you will encounter fascinating original records (including Abraham Lincoln's telegrams to his generals, audio recordings from the Oval Office) and new interactive exhibits that allow you to "touch" and explore some of the most interesting documents, photos and films we hold.

The Public Vaults display at any given time about 1,100 records-originals or facsimiles of documents, photographs, maps, drawings, film or audio clips, allowing you to see the raw materials of our American democracy. Documents range from important treaties and legislation dealing with grave matters of state to snippets of the fascinating stories of individual citizens such as letters to the President and citations for military bravery.

National Archives Interactive Exhibits Maybe it was this kind of "touch".

48 posted on 09/02/2010 11:57:32 PM PDT by Razz Barry (Round'em up, send'em home.)
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To: onyx
Sheesh. If the Mother Jones idiot thinks s/he hit gold, it was fool’s gold. LOL.

My thoughts exactly...I love this line!
49 posted on 09/03/2010 1:03:34 AM PDT by The Looking Spoon
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To: The Looking Spoon

see also...
Devvy’s Alerts:
Beck @ the lincoln memorial Rally...

http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/devvys-alerts-beck-restore-americas-honor-at-the-memorial-of-a-white-supremacist-by-devvy/


50 posted on 09/03/2010 4:13:39 AM PDT by gunnyg (WE ARE BEHIND "ENEMY WITHIN" LINES, SURROUNDED, Our 'Novembers' Are Gone,,,So Few Can "grok" It.)
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To: The Looking Spoon

Uh yeh, I think I recall the beck show he mentions—it was the same one where he badmouths The South, isn’t it?

He made a lotta points with that one, didn’t he.

Likewise, as on other shows, where he badmouths the truthers, birthers, FEMA Camps, is for VAT and nat’l sales tax, etc, etc.


51 posted on 09/03/2010 4:23:50 AM PDT by gunnyg (WE ARE BEHIND "ENEMY WITHIN" LINES, SURROUNDED, Our 'Novembers' Are Gone,,,So Few Can "grok" It.)
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To: gunnyg

Ah so, here it is...

http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/why-i-do-not-trust-glenn-beck-by-devvy-kidd/


52 posted on 09/03/2010 4:37:32 AM PDT by gunnyg (WE ARE BEHIND "ENEMY WITHIN" LINES, SURROUNDED, Our 'Novembers' Are Gone,,,So Few Can "grok" It.)
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To: The Looking Spoon

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

It’s not a question of how you posted it - it’s more like the idiocy of the whole article.

Thanks for posting it.


53 posted on 09/04/2010 6:16:13 AM PDT by SuzyQue (Remember to think.)
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To: onyx
I mean if this is what the nitpickers at the unseemly Mother Jones have, well, they can go to hell..lol.

The left doesn't want to go to hell. They want to create hell on earth, with them in charge.

54 posted on 09/04/2010 8:09:29 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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