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Fri Aug 10, 2012, 11:02 AM Aug 2012

David Barton, liar for Jesus, has his book pulled by publisher...

And the bastard even lies about that.

Citing “lost confidence in the book’s details,” David Barton’s publisher announced Thursday that it had decided to cease publication of his bestseller The Jefferson Lies, a revisionist pseudo-history that portrays Thomas Jefferson, who was a deist and a slave owner, as an ultra-Christian champion of civil rights.

According to WORLD Magazine,

The Thomas Nelson publishing company has decided to cease publication and distribution of David Barton’s controversial book, The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You’ve Always Believed about Thomas Jefferson, saying it has “lost confidence in the book’s details.”

Casey Francis Harrell, Thomas Nelson’s director of corporate communications, told me the publishing house “was contacted by a number of people expressing concerns about [The Jefferson Lies].” The company began to evaluate the criticisms, Harrell said, and “in the course of our review learned that there were some historical details included in the book that were not adequately supported. Because of these deficiencies we decided that it was in the best interest of our readers to stop the publication and distribution.”

The Jefferson Lies no longer appears in searches on Thomas Nelson’s website.

The Jefferson Lies has taken something of a beating of late. In May, conservative Christian scholars Warren Throckmorton and Michael Coulter released Getting Jefferson Right, a book devoted broadly to debunking Barton’s false portrayals of the third president. Two months later, Barton’s masterwork was voted the “least credible book in history” in a poll conducted by the History News Network.

http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/citing-lost-confidence-barton-s-publi

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David Barton, liar for Jesus, has his book pulled by publisher... (Original Post) Archae Aug 2012 OP
pitiful NJCher Aug 2012 #1
And nobody that follows him will care. toddwv Aug 2012 #2
Heard about him yesterday... Ron Obvious Aug 2012 #3

toddwv

(2,830 posts)
2. And nobody that follows him will care.
Fri Aug 10, 2012, 12:43 PM
Aug 2012

He will still get talk-show spots and be cited as a "Constitutional Expert" as he spouts his nonsense all over the airwaves...

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Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)
3. Heard about him yesterday...
Fri Aug 10, 2012, 12:52 PM
Aug 2012

I just heard about him on PRI's The World yesterday. What a buffoon! Not a professional historian, of course, but a graduate in "Divinity" from Oral Roberts. Tells you all you need to know about him.

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