Not so fast, Glenn … National Archives debunks Beck’s Washington document claim

September 1, 2010 · Posted in Glenn Beck, People 

He CAN tell a lie: Fox News and talk radio host Glenn Beck

Think Michelle Bachman’s claim that there were eleventy-billion people there (as opposed to 87,000) was the biggest whopper told about Glenn Beck’s August 28 book launch “restoring honor” march? Think again. Apparently, the biggest “big lie” came from the Beckster himself. Mother Jones reports …

During his much-ballyhooed “Restoring Honor” rally on Saturday, Glenn Beck told a whopper involving the founding father who was supposedly unable to tell a lie: George Washington.

Speechifying at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial, the controversial Fox News host highlighted the legacy of the nation’s first president to drive home his claim that encouraging honesty and integrity was a main aim of the event. Beck even told attendees that “the next George Washington” was “in this crowd. He may be 8 years old, but this is the moment. This is the moment that he dedicates his life, that he sees giants around him. And 25 years from now, he will come not to this stair, but to those stairs. And he can proclaim, ‘I have a new dream.’”

Beck also invoked Washington while describing the inspiring experience of visiting famous tourist destinations around the nation’s capital. “I have been going to Mt. Vernon,” he explained. Holding out his hands for emphasis, he declared with emotion, “I went to the National Archives, and I held the first inaugural address written in his own hand by George Washington.”

But did he, Mother? DID HE HOLD THAT PRECIOUS PARCHMENT IN HIS CHUBBY LITTLE FINGERS!!!???

Um … no. Read on.

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