Bill O'Reilly's Dumb Lincoln Book Banned By National Park Service
When you go to a national park or historic site or whatever, there's always a gift shop with appropriate gift items. Ford's Theatre in Washington, where a prancing confederate teabagger actor killed America's greatest Civil War president, has just such a gift store. You could buy an Abraham Lincoln plush, we imagine, or maybe a Mary Todd Lincoln goth hoodie. But what youwon'tfind is television idiot Bill O'Reilly's new book about the Lincoln Assassination -- because it's so full of ridiculous mistakes and errors and blunders and outright falsehoods that the historians fear some "regular non-Fox News people" might accidentally buy the book as a souvenir and then become mouth-breathing cretins.
Salon's Justin Elliot reports on the hilarious historical scandal:
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.”
Rae Emerson, deputy superintendent at Ford’s Theatre, which is a national historic site under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service, has penned a scathing appraisal of O’Reilly’s “Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever.” In Emerson’s official review, which I’ve pasted below, she spends four pages correcting passages from O’Reilly’s book before recommending that it not be offered for sale at Ford’s Theatre because it is not up to quality standards.
So what did the blowhard jackass get wrong in his "million-selling alternate history textbook"? Oh, some basic stuff. All the scenes in the Oval Office are suspect, because the Oval Office didn'texistat the time. There's also a bunch of conspiracy theory and wrong dates, places, names, numbers, pretty much wrong everything ... which is about what you'd expect from a Fox News report. [ Salon / Washington Post ]