Mike Huckabee’s 1998 Book Is Full Of Fake Quotes From America’s Founders
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/mike-huckabees-1998-book-is-full-of-fake-quotes-from-americaA number of the quotations, such as those from Washington and Jefferson, have been routinely debunked by libraries of the past presidents but still regularly find their way into books from conservative figures. Other quotes, debunked by prominent historians, seem to be used for the first time in the book.
The book was co-written with evangelical author George Grant in response to a mass shooting in Arkansas. The book links that shooting to the decline in America’s moral culture. The quotes, from figures such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Patrick Henry, are often used to reinforce Huckabee’s moral viewpoint.
Huckabee isn’t the first Republican presidential to attribute fake quotes to America’s founders. Ben Carson, Rand Paul, and former candidate Scott Walker have all done so.
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is twisted to advantage. Nothing is too ridiculous to sell to millions of eager purchasers who never let facts get in the way of ideology and are increasingly inclined to deny their real right-wing history and claim ours instead.
Our founding fathers were acting at God's direction and the Constitution is a religious document, America's conservatives freed the slaves and passed our civil rights laws over liberal opposition, Hitler was a liberal, and fascism is a liberal phenomenon.
(BTW, there is literally no such thing as liberal fascism, left-wing government structure yes, but liberalism is antithetical. Mussolini knew that when he said something extremely like, "Liberalism is the individual, fascism is the state." I mention this because protecting America from the liberal fascist threat is very big on the right.)
