http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/23/1395838/-Republicans-keep-making-up-quotes-from-Founding-Fathers?detail=email
"Take my guns and I'll totally throw a wicked fit, dude."
—George Washington or someone else, who knows? Pretty sure it was Washington
Steve Benen over at MSNBC has a little breakdown of some of the Republican/Tea Party's convenient Founding Fathers misquotes.
The first hint of trouble came about a month ago, when Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) told supporters that “Thomas Jefferson said it best” when the Founding Father said, “That government is best which governs least.”
Thomas Jefferson never said this. Walker fell for a fake quote.
Soon after, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told an audience, “Patrick Henry said this, Patrick Henry said the Constitution is about ‘restraining the government not the people.’” In reality, Patrick Henry said no such thing.
It's pointed out that the Tea Party fancies itself the intellectual heirs to our country's "Founding Fathers" and so quoting them is top of the list of things to do. However, whereas Steve Benen is diplomatic:
My suspicion is that these are honest mistakes. I rather doubt that any of these GOP presidential candidates are knowingly pushing bogus quotes and/or had anything to do with the original fabrication. It’s far more likely the candidates and their aides stumbled upon false information online and didn’t realize their mistake.
I am not. I do not believe the word "honest" should be used in this context. There is nothing "honest" about saying you have any intellectual leanings and then not doing even the tiniest bit of research into the big thought quotes you are using—especially in your incredibly original books.
The fact that these candidates want to believe the Founding Fathers said these things doesn't make them honest mistakes at all. This makes them intellectually dishonest mistakes. Attributing quotes to people incorrectly happens. It happens quite a bit. But, when you're sorta writing books, and then pointing to those books as the moral and intellectual foundation of your potential leadership credentials, you need to show a little more diligence.
we have come to recognize that republicans are just as if not more gullible than their base who they target with misinformation. sometimes i looks like they believe the lies and innuendo they spew they say and defend them with such conviction in a defensive manner which insinuates they know it's ED (elephant dung) and the anxiousness to have it considered as truth makes them take that aggressive defense posture before they get the last word out.
Fox has proven time and again a grain of salt of negativity is seen as a potential mountain of evidence even after repeated and thorough rebuking, they say things like "i have no proof" and continue on with their assumptions as if they are written in stone. they have numerous costly witch hunts that never come to fruition because it's their own contrivance you can make up a lie but you can't make up legitimate evidence to support something that is just a mind fart causing the extemporaneous invention of a companion lie and the beat goes on.
