Ah, yes, Republicans.
Feb. 16th, 2007 07:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingMorally and intellectually bankrupt position? Don't worry! You can just INVENT entirely fictitious policy statements from Abraham Lincoln and use *them* to support your position!
Actual source of the quote: A writer for The Moonie Times Magazine, which he *claims* was never intended as a direct quote and an editor put the quotation marks around it - but, of course, it's the opening of the first sentence of his article and immediately followed by ", that's what Abraham Lincoln said".
Since then, it's appeared repeatedly, mostly in The Moonie Times and in the mouths of Republicans desperately trying to defend the indefensible, always cited as Lincoln despite being both idiotic AND blatantly falsified.
Actual source of the quote: A writer for The Moonie Times Magazine, which he *claims* was never intended as a direct quote and an editor put the quotation marks around it - but, of course, it's the opening of the first sentence of his article and immediately followed by ", that's what Abraham Lincoln said".
Since then, it's appeared repeatedly, mostly in The Moonie Times and in the mouths of Republicans desperately trying to defend the indefensible, always cited as Lincoln despite being both idiotic AND blatantly falsified.