{"id":2317,"date":"2013-08-05T15:45:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T21:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/?p=2317"},"modified":"2013-08-05T15:45:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T21:45:51","slug":"professor-glenn-beck-teaches-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/2013\/08\/05\/professor-glenn-beck-teaches-history\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Professor&#8221; Glenn Beck teaches &#8220;history&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Glenn Beck recently hosted a three day seminar in Salt Lake City where he presented a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/i-am-your-moon-and-you-are-my-beasts-birth-glenn-becks-independence-day-extravaganza\">&#8220;man in the moon<\/a>&#8221; performance and a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2013\/07\/26\/miss-becks-50-million-museum-at-man-in-the-moon-heres-your-chance-to-catch-some-of-the-highlights\/\">museum<\/a>&#8221; featuring some of David Barton&#8217;s founding father &#8220;artifacts.&#8221; If you were a VIP, you could have received a <a href=\"mediamatters.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/06\/glenn-becks-expensive-traveling-circus\/194750\">special guided tour. <\/a>Here&#8217;s the crux of his message:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"stcpDiv\">That all of human history is just cycle-upon-cycle of Satan trying to wipe out God&#8217;s chosen people in order to ultimately destroy God:<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m always amazed at how, when people don&#8217;t comprehend (or even read) a proper history text, they create convoluted narratives to somehow make sense of something they haven&#8217;t taken time to understand. To make matters worse, people seem willing to believe anything&#8230; sans fact checking&#8230; especially if it&#8217;s clearly bad fiction. Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Understanding History With Professor Glenn Beck\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NhtLKawrovk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/understanding-history-professor-glenn-beck\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Glenn Beck recently hosted a three day seminar in Salt Lake City where he presented a &#8220;man in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-2317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting","tag-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}