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"Thomas Jefferson created the Marines for the Islamic pirates that were happening."

Glenn Beck on Friday, January 29th, 2010 in his Fox News program Beck
claims Marines were created by Thomas Jefferson to combat Islamic pirates

On his Fox News program on Jan. 29, 2010, Glenn Beck was providing a history lesson on progressives in U.S. politics when he made the point that the difference between progressives and the Founding Fathers is that the founders thought the United States "should be Switzerland. We should stay out of everybody's business, be friends with everybody."

"I mean, if you're going to mess with us, we're going to pound you," Beck said. "Thomas Jefferson created the Marines for the Islamic pirates that were happening, right?"

for mine Beck was lucky to get a half true here ..
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/feb/03/glenn-beck/beck-claims-marines-were-created-thomas-jefferson-/

Note, Politifact made no mention of Beck's blaming Muslim extremists for the leatherneck tag as Beck did in your video of his keynote at CUFI 2013, so maybe that 'spice' has been added to his Barbary 1st foreign war fiction since.

In your video ..

.. Beck said (about 13:01) .. the leathernecks were there 'so Muslim extremists could not cut their heads off' .. it sounded a bit 'out of it' so i checked and it seems the 'so their necks could not be cut off' is just more Beck bullshit .. according to this anyway the leatherneck was in fact created to improve Marine posture on a horse .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leatherneck ..

Apparently Beck likes his Barbary pirate/leatherneck fiction (unless i'm missing something, and i'm wary as i can't find any other questioning that story) .. here it is in another of his keynote addresses .. at an NRA shindig, May 2013 ..
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/Decoder-Wire/2013/0507/Glenn-Beck-and-stagecraft-wizardry-Why-his-NRA-talk-trumped-all
..

Yup the who carries on about us STILL fighting the extremist Muslims is the same guy who says ..

“We’re all in the boat together,” he said. “We have to be beyond religion.”
http://news.hjnews.com/allaccess/article_362691dc-1135-11e3-a99a-0019bb2963f4.html

One other on the CUFI speech ..

Beck: America Was 'Established For The Establishment Of Israel'
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beck-america-was-established-establishment-israel