January 23, 2009
Glenn Beck...meet Google
Glenn Beck: "I checked. We have never had a president sworn into office without a Bible."
Here are FACTS:
Franklin Pierce was the only president to use the word affirm rather than swear. Theodore Roosevelt did not use a Bible when taking the oath in 1901. Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, and Richard Nixon swore the oath on two Bibles. John Quincy Adams swore on a book of law.[3] Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in on a Roman Catholic missal on Air Force One. Washington kissed the Bible afterwards, as some later Presidents did, but modern Presidents have not—except for Harry Truman, who bent and kissed the Bible upon taking the oath for the first time, on April 12, 1945, as well as at his second inauguration.[4] Many times the President-elect's name is added after the "I"; for example, "I, George Washington, do . . ." Lyndon B. Johnson did not add his name when swearing his first oath of office; there is evidence that in all other inaugurations since Franklin Roosevelt's first, the name of the president was added to the oath. William R. King is the only president or vice president sworn into office on foreign soil. By special act of Congress, he was allowed to take his oath on March 24, 1853 in Cuba, where he had gone because of his poor health.[5] He died 25 days later. Sarah T. Hughes is the only woman to administer the oath of office (she was a U.S. District Court judge who swore Lyndon Johnson into office on Air Force One after the Kennedy assassination).
And here's another FACT:
Article 2 of the the United States Constitution prescribes that the President must take the oath "before he enter on the Execution of his Office".
The 20th Amendment, however, states that the terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
*The second being an AMENDMENT to the US Constitution, which excludes any mention of an oath or swearing in [ceremony], would logically supersede Article 2. Regardless, no president has ever forgone taking the oath of office. Unfortunately for Glenn Beck, nothing in the US Constitution makes any mention of The Bible. The word "Bible" is nowhere in the nation's founding document.
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Pretty soon the Reich wing liars are going to run out of money to slander him.they can't keep this up for 4 to 8 years.
You guys didn't have a problem for 8 years.
i'm sorry, anonymous, do we know each other. i don't think we've met. and here's why i say that - i was livid when glenn beck tried to change his image in 2006, and appeal to a new audience that had NO IDEA of the horrible things he would say when he started out on KLAA. glenn beck's name was not new to me in 2008. randi rhodes would play clips of his ignorant bile on her show in the early 2000s. i think it's a cop out to say "oh..i didn't hear you saying anything for 8 years." the fact is, there has been a consistent movement to get the likes of glenn beck off of the airwaves, and i can't believe that fox gave him a new format. he just completely floored the nation by making things up. he continues to say things with ZERO information to back them up. i don't care if you have a poster of glenn beck above your bed...more power to you, anonymous. BUT, you cannot deny the fact that he spent a significant segment of several episodes of his show talking about how every american president has been sworn in on the bible, and there is one way to recite the oath of office. the facts do not back that up. we need tighter regulation of what news stations are allowed to report. and even if it's an op-ed news magazine, if you state something as fact to back up your opinion, it should be checked. that goes for ALL SIDES. i don't care if it's jon stewart or bill o'reilly. we should question everything. this is just another example of using ZERO facts to back an argument. glenn beck has been the target of media watchdogs for many years (the past 8 included). look it up.
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