Monday, September 24, 2012

Even the 'Trailer' for Spielberg's Lincoln Movie Contains an Outrageous Lie

Via SHNV

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I saw Clint Eastwood's latest film, "Trouble With the Curve" this weekend, which I highly recommend, especially to baseball fans like Lew Rockwell. Preceding the movie was the "trailer" for the upcoming Spielberg movie on Lincoln (out Nov. 16) based on a  book by the confessed plagiarist Doris Kearns-Goodwin. It's probably less than a minute long, but it contained these words, spoken to Abe, by his wife (paraphrasing from memory): "You are beloved by all the people more than anyone else in history."
Contrast this with the writings of historian Larry Tagg, author of The Unpopular Mr. Lincoln: America's Most Reviled President  (with an endorsement by Lincoln cultist Harold Holzer on the back cover) published just a few years ago:

"The violence of the criticism aimed at Lincoln by the great men of his time on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line is startling. The breadth and depth of the spectacular prejudice against him is often shocking for its cruelty, intensity, and unrelenting vigor. The plain truth is that Mr. Lincoln was deeply reviled by many who knew him personally, and by hundreds of thousands who only knew of him."

Larry Tagg documents how the New York Times editorialized in May of 1864 that Lincoln had been justifiably labeled as "a perjurer, a usurper, a tyrant, a subverter of the Constitution, a destroyer of the liberties of his country, a reckless desperado, a heartless trifler . . ." and intoned that there is no place in hell "that is full enough of torment to expiate his iniquities."

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