Saturday, November 12, 2011

Bill O'Lincoln

Apparently Bill O'Reilly has a book out about Lincoln, and people who know about Lincoln are asking it be put in the fantasy section and not the history section:
A reviewer for the official National Park Service bookstore at Ford’s Theatre has recommended that Bill O’Reilly’s bestselling new book about the Lincoln assassination not be sold at the historic site “because of the lack of documentation and the factual errors within the publication.”
On one hand this shit infuriates me - there are hundreds (if not thousands) of people who have dedicated their lives to studying the historical life of Abraham Lincoln; why on Earth someone would buy a book about Lincoln "written" by someone who gets paid a lot of money to go on tv and spout as much stupid shit as possible is beyond me.  On the other hand, if you're so fucking stupid you buy this book and think you're getting factual insight to Lincoln from someone who doesn't understand how the tides work, then I could give a shit if you're getting the facts straight.

Who the fuck is buying these books?

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