Glenn Beck Admits Lying: 'I Thought It Would Be A Little Easier' (VIDEO)
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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):
Beheld would have worked as well as held.
Stupid for him to do this, I think this is the lying to himself he was talking about