Bill O’Reilly’s Abraham Lincoln book banned at assassination site

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

Ford’s Theatre, in Washington DC, the site where John Wilkes Booth shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln, is refusing to sell, Fox anchor, Bill O’Reilly’s book “Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever.” They claim the book is completely wrong.

Ford’s officials and other historians have panned the book according to the Washington Post. They said the book was “sloppy with the facts and slim on documentation”. The experts said the book, which O’Reilly penned with Martin Dugard, also lacks footnotes and contains factual inaccuracies

For example the book says that Lincoln held meetings in the Oval Office, in the White House. This room didn’t exist for another 44 years. The review by Deputy Superintendent of Ford’s Theatre, Rae Emerson, also says the portrayal of Mary Surratt, an assassination conspirator, is fantastical.

The Post review states “‘Killing Lincoln’ also resurrects an old canard debunked long ago by serious historians: that Secretary of War Edwin Stanton was involved in the plot to kill Lincoln, in the hope that he might ascend to the presidency. There is no credible evidence to support such an assertion, nor do O’Reilly and Dugard provide any.”

http://www.irishcentral.com/ent/Bill-OReillys-Abraham-Lincoln-book-banned-at-assassination-site-133800853.html



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[tsuki]

1. One of the most researched periods of time in US history, and the lazy

pinheads cannot get their fact straight. And look at the book cover. O'Reilly's name is twice as big as the title.

[Tsiyu]

2. How lame

Laughing my head off here.

What a TOOL!

[lbrtbell]

3. As if we needed further proof

Billo The Clown has always been loose with facts.

Exhibit A:
http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/11/14/does-this-look-like-a-panda-to-you-bill-o-reilly-thinks-so.aspx

[sharp_stick]

4. The dumb bastard probably used Conservapedia

as his sole source of research.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

6. "He's looking out for the folks." You know those folks without any basic historical knowledge. The

"patriots" who make up shit as they go.

[LeftinOH]

5. What could he possibly add to the Lincoln assassination story? Making shit up, that's what. n/t

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

7. That John Wilkes Booth was part of the secular

left? :shrug:

[madamesilverspurs]

8. Kind of surprising

that old Bill didn't assert that Lincoln was actually massacred by GIs at Malmedy. . .

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

9. You're saying that's not what happened??!! Pinhead!!! nt

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

10. The dumbing down continues

A guy who admits he doesn't care about facts or reasearch should not be permitted to write a history book.

[JohnnyRingo]

12. Exactly the term I was looking for.

The party of "proud but dumb" is working overtime to bring the rest of the country down to their level. O'Reilly should be called to task for his participation.

On edit:
It's sadly incredible this book is #2 on the best seller list.
I mean "incredible" in the true meaning.

[redqueen]

14. I'm shocked not to see a dagger.

Then again, maybe the stores just aren't reporting the bulk sales. I hope that's it. The alternative is too depressing.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

15. This is a new cash cow for the Rethug talking heads

Not only do they get paid for their useless, bigoted opinions, they can rewrite history for the simpleton teabaggers who don't trust historians or egghead profs.

I suspect Michelle Malkin will soon be writing books about DNA.

[Old and In the Way]

11. Let me guess the thesis.

A liberal shot Lincoln because he wanted to cut taxes on the producers. Amirite?

[progressoid]

13. I'd like to laugh but that greedy old pervert is making buckets of money from this book

And making the half-wits that buy is even more stupidous.

That's kind of depressing.

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