TagsTagsHere's David Barton, blatantly lying about the founding fathers and Thomas Jefferson again. Barton is not a historian -- he's a religious propagandist who engages in wholesale historical distortion. This kind of stuff sells big to the religious right. Comedy Central Video For a thorough debunking of Barton's lies, here's a lengthy ...
Jon Stewart, David Barton, Dishonesty, Thomas Jefferson, Founding Fathers, Religious Right, Fantasyland
Right Wing Watch has a post about the source of Michele Bachmann's odd views of American history: religious right theocrat and pseudo-historian David Barton. For decades the religious right has been indoctrinating an entire generation with a fantasy version of US history, and Barton is one of the main proponents ...
Michele Bachmann, Republican Party, Right Wing, Far Right, Loon, Founding Fathers, Revisionism, David Barton
This is absolutely bizarre. Why won't Michele Bachmann simply say she misspoke, when she claimed the founding fathers "worked tirelessly" to end slavery? Instead Bachmann is doubling down on her false statement and refusing to admit she was wrong -- and not only that, now she's claiming that John Quincy Adams, ...
Michele Bachmann, Republican Party, Right Wing, Far Right, Loon, Founding Fathers, Revisionism