On the December 14 edition of his CNN Headline News program, discussing Iran's December 11 conference, a gathering of Holocaust deniers purportedly to “debate” the existence of the Holocaust, Glenn Beck said: "[W]hen I saw [former Ku Klux Klan leader] David Duke there, I thought, 'Gee, the only one that wasn't there was Jimmy Carter.' "

But in 1979, then-President Carter signed the executive order to establish the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. The order defined the Holocaust as “the systematic and State-sponsored extermination of six million Jews and some five million other peoples by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II.” During the conversation with Heritage Foundation senior fellow Peter Brookes, Beck added that “maybe [Iran President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad just didn't want to invite Jimmy Carter, because he was like, 'Oh, well, he'll discredit the whole conference. That guy's always wrong.' ”

As Media Matters for America has noted, Beck has previously referred to Carter as a “waste of skin.”

From the December 14 edition of CNN Headline News' Glenn Beck:

BROOKES: He had a speech earlier this week at a local university in Iran, and there were students who spoke up. They're very unhappy with the situation in Iran, and they were arrested and dragged away. I mean, there were people who would be put in jail; people would be beaten, I mean, all of this sort of stuff; and it's just the height of hypocrisy -- beyond disgrace -- it's the height of hypocrisy, as well.

BECK: So, I, actually -- when I saw David Duke there, I thought, “Gee, the only one that wasn't there was Jimmy Carter.”

But, maybe -- maybe, Ahmadinejad just didn't want to invite Jimmy Carter, because he was like, “Oh, well, he'll discredit the whole conference. That guy's always wrong.”