Beck Attacks Smithsonian Video For Pointing Out That Jefferson Was A Slaveowner When He Wrote Declaration Written by Media Matters Staff Published 08/15/11 10:18 AM EDT From the August 15 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program: Video file Related: The Blaze: 'A Slave Holder Named Thomas Jefferson': Is Smithsonian's New 'Race' Exhibit Fair To Founding Father? Previously: Beck Defends Bachmann's Claim That Founders Were Against Slavery By Again Distorting Three-Fifths Clause Historian: Beck's Defense Of Three-Fifths Clause “Completely Wrong” Does Glenn Beck support the slave trade or is he just an “idiot”?