Conservative media mogul Glenn Beck on Saturday said that he is a “better man” because President Obama is in the White House.
“I will tell you that I’m a better man because he’s president today. I will tell you that I know more about American history because he’s president of the United States,” he said at the Value Voters Summit.
{mosads}“While I wish it hadn’t have happened” and he is not rooting for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to take up residence at the White House, Beck said “we are all stronger because of it… If we don’t let hatred corrupt what we have.”
Beck, looking professorial in a dark, stylish blazer and tie, gave a history lesson to the annual conservative conference in Washington.
He stalked the stage like a preacher as he rattled through stories and held up memorabilia from history, including a letter from former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and the microphone formerly used by Japanese radio broadcaster Tokyo Rose.
He appeared in front of his trademark blackboard, emblazoned with the word “hiSTORY.”
“We don’t see the word ‘story’ in the word history,” he explained.
“It’s becoming obscene the things we argue about now, and we’re arguing about them because we don’t know our own history,” Beck added.
At one point, he held up a clipping of fabric he claimed was from the bed sheet former President Abraham Lincoln lay in as he died.
Lincoln was killed, he said, because assassin John Wilkes Booth was full of “rage.”
“How many people in this county are being primed for days of rage?” he asked. “We must be the other people.”