POP AN EMAIL TO YOUR REP ! They are making up Lincoln Quotes

[Perky]

Someone should go to the floor and Demand Don Young's words be taken down!!! How dare he besmirch another republican!!!! Now he is apparently refusing to "revise his comments"

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/16/young-lincoln/

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2007/02/16/publiceye/entry2485563.shtml


Shameless NeoCons making up Lincoln quotes.

On Tuesday, Frank Gaffney, Jr., writing in the Washington Times, quoted Abraham Lincoln saying “Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged.” Yesterday, Rep. Don Young, speaking about the president’s plan for a troop “surge” in Iraq, cited the quote on the House floor. “He had the same problem this President has, with an unpopular war,” Young said of Lincoln. “The same problem with people trying to redirect the commander in chief."

As it turns out, however, the quote is phony. Brooks Jackson at FactCheck.org reported that the quote showed up last August and quickly spread over the Internet. “Republican candidate Diana Irey used the 'quote' recently in her campaign against Democratic Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, and it has appeared thousands of times on the Internet, in newspaper articles and letters to the editor, and in Republican speeches,” Jackson noted.

The real author of the line, Michael Waller, says that an editor at Insight magazine – the same magazine at the center of the Barack Obama madrassah scandal, which is owned by the Washington Times – mistakenly put quotes around his words. The Times has not issued a correction.

[Blue_In_AK]

1. Oh, how I wish the DCCC had given some money

to underfunded Diane Benson so we could have kicked this buffoon out of office. Words cannot express how much I hate this idiot.

[roguevalley]

10. I know, Blue honey. He is beyond humiliating. I sent him a note

suggesting that if he was going to do republican humiliation to us, he should choose something less awful than plaigerism. I suggested something less awful like sleeping with his mother, doing meth with minors or stealing something. I wonder if I'm going to be on the no-fly list. You should read what I send Lisa every week. :evilgrin:

[Blue_In_AK]

11. That's great, RV. I love your note.

[oldtime dfl_er]

2. Recommended!!

and kicked!:kick:

[Graybeard]

3. They just make stuff up...

...the Swiftboaters showed the way. Just make the crap up, throw it out there and the MSM will lap it up and puke it out again.

[Perky]

5. MSM called them on it

CBS and E&P both are laughting at the WashTimes, Gaffeny and the guy who maide up the quote originally.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

9. Ain't that the truth.

At first it was "it has the fingerprints of Al Qaeda" when Rice was trying to make the Iraq/Al Qaeda connection. The same statement was made just recently, substituting Iran for Al Qaeda: "it has the fingerprints of Iran" in the RW attempt to make an Iraq/Iran connection. (don't have a link for the quote, but I heard it on MSM).

[Perky]

4. Washington Times Puills commentary from website

http://washingtontimes.com/commentary/

Scroll down to the the commentary on 2/13

All that is left is bullet...



Funny as Hell

Still no retraction/corretion though.

[Perky]

6. K&R PLEEAAAASSSEEEE

This is a great way to make the NEOCON's look stupid.

[JackintheGreen]

7. Well, as Lincoln said after Antietam

"Fuck the truth."

[onehandle]

8. "Reagan won the Cold War." ---Abraham Lincoln

Must be true. It's on the Internets.