No, Glenn Beck Did Not Endorse or Say He Supports Hillary Clinton

Glenn Beck cannot stand Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton and said early on in the primary process that he doesn’t know that Trump would necessarily be better than Clinton.

Well, he appears to have evolved on that issue and said this over the past weekend:

It is not acceptable to ask a moral, dignified man to cast his vote to help elect an immoral man who is absent decency or dignity.

If the consequence of standing against Trump and for principles is indeed the election of Hillary Clinton, so be it. At least it is a moral, ethical choice.

If she is elected, the world does not end.

Now, just so we’re clear, he is referring to conservatives accepting a Clinton victory in the name of stopping Trump as a “moral, ethical choice.” Not the act of voting for her.

Here is how Breitbart chose to interpret that:

(This also happened the same day that Beck revealed he briefly considered voting for Clinton.)

And somehow a “Beck just said he’s with Hillary” meme took off:

In 2010, I watched Glenn Beck lead 100,000 people calling, vaguely, for a return to agrarian fundamentalism. Now he may be ready for Hillary

— sick transit, gloria (@samknight1) October 11, 2016

Dear Clinton campaign,
Please please please don't acknowledge the Glenn Beck endorsement.
Thank you.

— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) October 11, 2016

Glenn Beck endorsing Hillary is like opposite of when it came out that Harry Potter was actually a Slytherin.

— OhNoSheTwitnt (@OhNoSheTwitnt) October 11, 2016

Yeah, no.

Beck’s comments are not so much an endorsement as (maybe) an acceptance of Clinton as the lesser of two evils. Some conservatives have warmed up to the argument that while they would own the catastrophes of a President Trump, they could reform the party and be a united front against President Clinton.

What’s strangest about all this talk of Beck supposedly endorsing or supporting Clinton is that yesterday, in the video where Beck said he briefly considered voting for her, he actually revealed who he will be voting for…

…a third party candidate you probably haven’t heard of before.

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