Glenn Beck: Make sure you get ‘The Jefferson Lies!’

Glenn Beck had some blunt advice for his audience on the Blaze TV – don’t miss the new edition of “The Jefferson Lies.”

In fact, don’t just buy one copy.

“Make sure you get ‘The Jefferson Lies,’” Beck told his audience. “And quite frankly, if you already have a copy, I would give the other copy to my children or my grandchildren because I think it bears an incredible story.”

Beck observed the new edition of “The Jefferson Lies” is selling briskly and Amazon.com has already run out of stock. Beck urged his viewers not to let that stop them.

“Don’t worry,” he assured his audience. “There’s many more cases where they came from. If Amazon says [it’s] temporarily sold out, buy it anyway, the shipment is on the way.”

“The Jefferson Lies,” which is in stock at the WND Superstore, has been as high as No. 4 among all books listed at Amazon.com. And Beck thinks it will even hit the New York Times bestseller list.

Believe it or not, it wouldn’t be the first time.

“The Jefferson Lies” was a New York Times bestseller when it was first released.

However, after an unprecedented smear campaign, the book was pulled from the bookstore shelves.

Beck, a personal friend of David Barton, explained the personal impact the publisher’s decision had on the widely respected author and historian.

“My friend David Barton wrote this book,” Beck said. “David is the most optimistic guy I’ve ever met, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen my friend David so down as when he told me that his New York Times bestseller, which had been out for four weeks, had just been pulled because someone said he was a fraud.

“It was a witch hunt,” he said.

Beck energetically defended Barton and praised the new edition as a way of taking the fight to his critics. Beck also had some harsh words for Barton’s chief critic, psychology professor Warren Throckmorton, who led the campaign to ban the book.

“About three or four years ago, a guy who is a psychology professor, not a professor of history or anything else, decided he didn’t like this book,” Beck charged. “He didn’t like what was said in this book. He tried to take this book apart, and he was successful for a very short time.

“A lot of people that I respect were caught up in it. I spent some time on the phone with people saying, ‘What are you doing?’ You actually think this leftist psychology professor knows more about Thomas Jefferson than David Barton? Would you like to see the documents?”

Barton has championed the use of primary documents as the key to writing history, joking that history should be more than “one PhD talking to another PhD.” Beck personally verified Barton’s research and defended his findings.

“I asked David for all of his research, and I looked into all of his research, and I knew that he was right,” Beck said. “And I asked him to rewrite the book and take his critics on head on. To take all those things that his critics said he had no documentation on and actually print them in this book.”

The new edition of “The Jefferson Lies” contains a special expanded section where Barton directly addresses his critics, specifically rebutting them charge by charge.

“He will show you the evidence that everything you know or think you know about Thomas Jefferson is an out-and-out lie!” Beck enthused.

Beck also told his audience why he believes Barton’s effort is so important and why Jefferson is a personal hero of the talk-show host and television pioneer.

“An amazing, amazing man – not a bigot, open-minded, he was a slave owner, but tried to give his slaves away,” said Beck of Jefferson. “And he is the cornerstone of our nation. If you lose Thomas Jefferson in history, you lose the nation. Because you lose the Founding Fathers entirely, you lose what’s on Mt. Rushmore (except for Theodore Roosevelt), and you lose the Declaration of Independence.”

Beck also called Jefferson a hero for anyone who values knowledge and the search for truth.

“Thomas Jefferson gave one of the best quotes that I’ve ever read anywhere because it’s how I feel – ‘I cannot live in a world without books’,” Beck said. “He was a voracious reader, had a huge library, in fact when the Library of Congress burned down, he gave all of his books to the country and that’s the foundation of our Library of Congress.”

Beck described Jefferson as “the guy who loved books, the guy who loved the search for truth, the guy who changed my life.”

He quoted with approval Jefferson’s admonition to “fix reason firmly in her seat” and “question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.”

Then, in a comparison seemingly designed to enrage Barton’s critics, Beck described the withdrawal of “The Jefferson Lies” as driven by the same kind of fear Jefferson had condemned.

“A book that defended him [Jefferson], in blindfolded fear, was pulled off the shelves in America so nobody would read it,” charged Beck. “It’s back in a better, expanded version and it’s going to be a New York Times bestseller and I think it’s going to sell a lot more books this time. Give that book to your children and grandchildren or save it and tell the story about how it was taken apart – and then David went to work to take apart the critics.”

Beck told his audience defending Jefferson was akin to defending the founding ideals of the nation itself. And he told parents “The Jefferson Lies” is a way to teach them real history and the truth about America’s most enigmatic Founding Father.

“Really important!” cried Beck. “Your children should read this before they leave the house. They should know who Thomas Jefferson is.”

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