Comments on: David Barton Again Uses Fake Abe Lincoln Quote on Education to Criticize Education https://wthrockmorton.com/2018/07/15/david-barton-again-uses-fake-abe-lincoln-quote-on-education-to-criticize-education/ A [retired] college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues Mon, 16 Jul 2018 09:37:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: bluetah https://wthrockmorton.com/2018/07/15/david-barton-again-uses-fake-abe-lincoln-quote-on-education-to-criticize-education/#comment-96859 Mon, 16 Jul 2018 09:37:09 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=32862#comment-96859 David Barton is intending to create another generation of conservative liars. Not only mendacious, Barton is an academic cheater- his methods are similar to the methods of the student who fabricates reference resource material to buttress his or her work in the research papers required of them. That is a great deal easier than actual scholarly endeavor as well as dishonest.
Me- I would rather be taught – or governed by a truthful liberal than a lying conservative. Seems that conservatives no longer even are content to twist the truth – but feel compelled to twist the lies they depend upon into a distorted parody of reality.

]]> By: thatotherjean https://wthrockmorton.com/2018/07/15/david-barton-again-uses-fake-abe-lincoln-quote-on-education-to-criticize-education/#comment-96858 Sun, 15 Jul 2018 18:08:31 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=32862#comment-96858 Sigh. Further evidence that David Barton continues to be a Liar for Jesus—as if we needed more.

]]> By: Ellie2 https://wthrockmorton.com/2018/07/15/david-barton-again-uses-fake-abe-lincoln-quote-on-education-to-criticize-education/#comment-96857 Sun, 15 Jul 2018 11:37:08 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=32862#comment-96857 I haven’t been over to Wallbuilders in years. Is he still saying things like, “I don’t have a source, but it’s something he probably would have said?” Not an exact quote, because it’s been a long time.

]]> By: Erp https://wthrockmorton.com/2018/07/15/david-barton-again-uses-fake-abe-lincoln-quote-on-education-to-criticize-education/#comment-96856 Sun, 15 Jul 2018 11:36:42 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=32862#comment-96856 In reply to seashell.

There are a lot of wrongly attributed quotes floating around out there though many pre-date the internet. There is also misdating of quotes (did the subject say this before or after a significant event) or misleading juxtaposition of quotes (I can remember one history professor showing how an author took two quotes from the subject and put them together but without mentioning in the text [it was in the references if you drilled down] that they were written 50 years apart) or misuse of ellipses.

]]> By: seashell https://wthrockmorton.com/2018/07/15/david-barton-again-uses-fake-abe-lincoln-quote-on-education-to-criticize-education/#comment-96854 Sun, 15 Jul 2018 04:09:01 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=32862#comment-96854 The thing about quotes on the internet is that you cannot confirm their validity. ~Abe Lincoln

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