Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell went on the Wallbuilders radio show with David Barton and Rick Green and they made quite possibly the dumbest argument imaginable on the subject of the many Republican plans to pass out presidential electoral votes by congressional district.
David Barton delivered a delightfully whacky explanation of his position that it would be unconstitutional to allow same-sex marriage. It’s the same argument Alan Keyes likes to make, that since the Declaration of Independence mention’s a creator, anything that their God allegedly disapproves of can’t be made legal. And he throws in some more specific idiocy along the way:
It seems that there is no end to what Cindy Jacobs’ prayers can accomplish. They can create a bottomless spaghetti bowl, they can stop hurricanes and earthquakes, they can magically fix David Barton’s balding tires and they can even shut down terror cells. The FBI should get on the phone immediately (and never mind the fact that there isn’t a shred of evidence for any of this).
I was on my friend Jeremiah Bannister’s Paleoradio show this week talking about Gary North being in charge of developing the Ron Paul Curriculum, to be used primarily by homeschoolers, and he brought up a very interesting question? How are they going to treat the question of America’s founding and Christianity?
Warren Throckmorton quotes from a book called The Covenant: America’s Sacred and Immutable Connection to Ancient Israel by Timothy Ballard. That book has a strong endorsement from our old pal David Barton and it makes some truly loopy claims. Like that Americans are descended from the lost tribes of Israel, through Joseph:
Dennis Prager’s latest Worldnutdaily column, though written by a Jew, could easily have been written by a fundamentalist Christian like David Barton. It’s full of the same kind of ahistorical nonsense that Barton spews regularly. He begins with this bit of chauvinism:
Last weekend, David Barton was at Fellowship Reformed Church in Hudsonville, Michigan, about an hour from where I live. Unfortunately, I couldn’t make it down there, but Right Wing Watch has some of the transcript of Barton telling the same old lies. Like his claim that the Constitution contains “direct quotations” from the Bible.
Unconstrained lunatic Cindy Jacobs has already told us that her prayers can stop terrorist acts, hurricanes and an empty spaghetti bowl, but now she’s claiming to have saved David Barton’s life through prayer. She says God told her to pray that Barton’s wheels wouldn’t fall off when he was on a trip, because Satan was trying to destroy him. But she prayed and he lived.
David Barton’s book The Jefferson Lies may be the most appropriately titled book ever written, as it was packed full of lies. And he continues to add new ones to the list. Warren Throckmorton catches yet another one, and as usual it’s Barton taking one tiny little nugget of truth, ignoring everything else and both distorting and exaggerating its meaning. On his radio show, he said that Jefferson would have approved of conceal carry being allowed on college campuses because he included gun instruction at the University of Virginia:
There’s an old line about people who lie habitually to the effect that they would rather cross the street to tell a lie than stand still and tell the truth. This applies quite well to David Barton, who I doubt could write a grocery list without somehow distorting things. Right Wing Watch quotes from a recent talk he gave at a church, talking about the Supreme Court’s ruling in Abington Township v Schempp:
Dispatches From the Culture Wars
Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In