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Shocker! Bill O'Reilly's book on Lincoln's assassination full of factual errors.

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tsarstepan
 
Reply Mon 14 Nov, 2011 08:40 pm
Ford's Theatre, citing errors, refuses to carry Bill O'Reilly's 'Killing Lincoln'
Ford's Theatre refuses to sell Bill O’Reilly’s book, 'Killing Lincoln,' the book one historian charges with 'mistakes in names, places, and events.'

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“Killing Lincoln” contains numerous factual errors and no documentation or footnotes, according to a study conducted by Rae Emerson, the deputy superintendent of Ford’s Theatre National Historic Site who recommended the book not be sold at Ford’s Theatre.


For the entire article:
http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2011/1114/Ford-s-Theatre-citing-errors-refuses-to-carry-Bill-O-Reilly-s-Killing-Lincoln
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Lustig Andrei
 
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Reply Mon 14 Nov, 2011 09:12 pm
@tsarstepan,
Bill O'Reilly knows how to read and write???
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Mon 14 Nov, 2011 09:18 pm
@Lustig Andrei,
Go figure.... Surprised
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PUNKEY
 
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Reply Mon 14 Nov, 2011 09:24 pm
You really think HE wrote it?
BillRM
 
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Reply Mon 14 Nov, 2011 09:24 pm
@tsarstepan,
Large numbers of fact errors in such a book?

Does not most publishers turn over such books to fact checkers before sending them to the printers?

Did he self pub????
Lustig Andrei
 
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Reply Mon 14 Nov, 2011 09:25 pm
@PUNKEY,
If there are that many errors in it, yes.
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Ceili
 
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Reply Mon 14 Nov, 2011 09:28 pm
Ah who cares right? His career has been about spreading lies, but I'm sure the book is fair and balanced fiction.
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Mon 14 Nov, 2011 09:31 pm
@BillRM,
It's Bill O'Reilly for pete's sake. He sells a lot of books. He probably has a clause that prohibits the publisher from editing or fact checking his books.
Lustig Andrei
 
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Reply Mon 14 Nov, 2011 09:36 pm
@tsarstepan,
Yer right. People with inflated egos like O'Reilly's get upset if a careful editor deletes or inserts so much as a comma in their ms. Facts? We don't need no steenkin' facts. As you said, it's Bill O'Reilly for pete's sake.
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tsarstepan
 
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Reply Mon 14 Nov, 2011 09:36 pm
@Ceili,
I figure if I help prevent a single curious soul (someone who hasn't paid attention to politics, or hasn't taken a civics course, or read a newspaper, etc...) from picking up this book or any of Reilly's hatemongering propaganda books then I did my little part to help better democracy in America.
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BillRM
 
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Reply Mon 14 Nov, 2011 09:36 pm
@tsarstepan,
Quote:
He probably has a clause that prohibits the publisher from editing or fact checking his books.


No basic facts checking would benefit neither O'Reilly or his publisher.

As far as lack of footnotes this is just a popular book for the unwashed tea party masses so that would be no big deal.
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joefromchicago
 
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Reply Mon 14 Nov, 2011 10:16 pm
History has a well-known liberal bias.
Lustig Andrei
 
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Reply Tue 15 Nov, 2011 02:11 am
@joefromchicago,
You're deep tonight, Joe.
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snood
 
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Reply Tue 15 Nov, 2011 09:00 am
@joefromchicago,
joefromchicago wrote:

History has a well-known liberal bias.


Little known fact - that bias exists in encyclopedias and science texts, as well...
rosborne979
 
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Reply Tue 15 Nov, 2011 09:33 am
@tsarstepan,
tsarstepan wrote:
Shocker! Bill O'Reilly's book on Lincoln's assassination full of factual errors.
What a shock.
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farmerman
 
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Reply Tue 15 Nov, 2011 09:59 am
@snood,
AVogadros number is in cubits per fortnight
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Setanta
 
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Reply Tue 15 Nov, 2011 10:18 am
@snood,
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lul677LTgR1qjvxfho1_400.jpg

Saw that on Facebook . . .
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Green Witch
 
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Reply Tue 15 Nov, 2011 11:18 am
Did he try and pin the assassination on a black guy?
snood
 
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Reply Tue 15 Nov, 2011 11:23 am
@Green Witch,
Green Witch wrote:

Did he try and pin the assassination on a black guy?


ROTFLMBO!!!!!!
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BillRM
 
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Reply Tue 15 Nov, 2011 11:30 am
@Green Witch,
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Did he try and pin the assassination on a black guy?


A Muslim...............and a freemason most likely.

Hell according to one of us here Timothy Mcveigh were a tool of Iran!!!!!!

 

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