Comments on: Glenn Beck’s The Blaze Begins Series on David Barton https://wthrockmorton.com/2012/07/25/glenn-becks-the-blaze-begins-series-on-david-barton/ A [retired] college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues Wed, 30 May 2018 18:23:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: Paul Zummo https://wthrockmorton.com/2012/07/25/glenn-becks-the-blaze-begins-series-on-david-barton/#comment-81695 Wed, 30 May 2018 18:23:01 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=11842#comment-81695 Hey, did you know that David Barton has read more historical documents than like anyone else in history. And there’s no need to listen to Dr. Throckmorton because he’s only a psychologist? These, and other fascinating “rebuttals” in part two today.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/david-barton-part-2-historian-responds-to-critics-claims-academics-extreme-hostility-toward-faith-obamas-alleged-king-george-iii-like-behavior/

Oh, and anyone who criticizes him does so because he threatens their “paradigm.” I guess that includes people like me who are quite possibly to Barton’s right. I guess I’m just a pinko communist after all.

]]> By: James Ferguson https://wthrockmorton.com/2012/07/25/glenn-becks-the-blaze-begins-series-on-david-barton/#comment-81698 Wed, 30 May 2018 18:23:01 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=11842#comment-81698 I suppose Barton is a “threat” to historians’ paradigm, at least as far as book sales go. I am amazed by how many persons buy his books, but then I imagine these titles are being bought in bulk to boost sales rankings, as I have heard has been the case with religious conservative literature. I don’t imagine too many religious conservatives actually read these books.

]]> By: Warren https://wthrockmorton.com/2012/07/25/glenn-becks-the-blaze-begins-series-on-david-barton/#comment-81692 Wed, 30 May 2018 18:23:01 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=11842#comment-81692 Paul – You learn the darndest things when Mr. Barton opines.

]]> By: James Ferguson https://wthrockmorton.com/2012/07/25/glenn-becks-the-blaze-begins-series-on-david-barton/#comment-81693 Wed, 30 May 2018 18:23:01 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=11842#comment-81693 This bulk-buying is pretty common now. Conservative groups buy 10s of 1000s of these books, offering them at fundraiser events, with the expressed aim of boosting sales ranks. This is why Beck, O’Reilly, Barton, and others are at the top of amazon and other sales charts. I well imagine most of these books go unread. Lots of blogs noting this phenomenon, but of course the conservative groups deny it,

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_12/027281.php

]]> By: Paul Zummo https://wthrockmorton.com/2012/07/25/glenn-becks-the-blaze-begins-series-on-david-barton/#comment-81694 Wed, 30 May 2018 18:23:01 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=11842#comment-81694 My favorite part of the article is where Hallowell writes that Prothero “claims” that Jefferson labeled the Virgin birth a fable or denied the divinity of Jesus. He uses the word “claims” as an implication that Prothero is just pulling these ideas out of thin air. I don’t think you can label these as “claims” when in fact Jefferson explicitly stated these things in his writings.

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