Last night, Glenn Beck kicked off his program by showing off a couple of historical artifacts that he has acquired, including a handwritten copy of a speech delivered by John Wilkes Booth and an early edition of “Mein Kampf” signed by Adolf Hitler … which he then tied to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s effort to ban the sale of sodas over sixteen ounces.

According to Beck, just as Booth and Hitler believed that they knew the proper solutions to the “crisis” they believed their nations faced, so too Bloomberg believes he is doing the right thing in trying solve the “crisis” of obesity.

“A lot of people have come in the past and said ‘there’s a crisis,'” Beck said, pointing to the Booth and Hitler documents, “We have to do something. We have to do something. That always leads you to bad places”: