www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/09/1237633/-Conservative-non-historian-David-Barton-keeps-on-keeping-on
"All this came to a head about a year ago with a David Barton book on Thomas Jefferson that was so riddled with errors and half-truths that, after a humiliating lambasting by dozen of actual historians—prominently including Christian scholars—it was pulled from publication. It was that bad.
You would think that having your central premises repeatedly debunked as erroneous or fabricated would put a damper on your credibility and perhaps make people like Sen. Ted Cruz less likely to endorse your crackpot notions. You would think that, if you still supposed that anyone involved actually gave a damn about the difference between truth and fraud, but the key to Barton's success is that he tells the crowd what they want to hear."
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