ANOTHER LIE BY BECK

(h/t Raw Story)

At his theo-fascist rally, Beck told the crowd that "I held the first inaugural address written in his own hand by George Washington." but according to a National Archives spokesperson Susan Cooper, Beck never held the actual document:

But Archives spokeswoman Susan Cooper insists that Beck didn't lay a finger on any precious documents, much less George Washington’s inaugural address. That would be a major violation of policy. "Those kinds of treasures are only handled by specially trained archival staff," she explains. Cooper acknowledges that someone at the archives did show the document to Beck, but that was the extent of it. Regarding Beck's claim that he held the document, Cooper says that seeing such documents for the first time can be a very emotional experience. "I'm certain it was a figure of speech," she says.