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Guns and 'Slander':
Josey1
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Guns and 'Slander':
Who is lying to whom?
TWO YEARS AGO, "historian" Michael Bellesiles gained national fame for his book, "Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture," in which he posited that gun ownership in early America was rare and that there was no historical basis on which to claim that the Second Amendment protected individual rights to bear arms. His book won the Bancroft Award, the highest American award for a history book. Then objective reporters and historians began picking apart his book.
What they found was a mountain of lies. Bellesiles left out most historical evidence that contradicted his theory - evidence which greatly outweighed the evidence that backed up his theory. Furthermore, he misrepresented historical records and even claimed to have examined California records that do not exist - they were lost in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. After a lot of these flaws and apparent fabrications were revealed, Bellesiles still managed to win a $30,000 grant of National Endowment for the Humanities money, funneled through the Newberry Library in Chicago.
In February, the William and Mary Quarterly devoted an issue to having "Arming America" reviewed by other professional historians. The verdict was not favorable. Bellisiles' professional reputation was so tarnished that in April his employer, Emory University, announced it would conduct an investigation. Bellesiles is now on paid leave while the probe into his "research" continues.
All the while, columnist Ann Coulter was working on her book "Slander: Liberal Lies About The American Right." Since its publication in July, the book has held the No. 1 spot on The New York Times' best-seller list. Coulter's premise is that the left-leaning media in America are dishonest in their coverage of conservatives. The number of documented errors in Coulter's book: two, and they were both minor, according to a recent story in The New York Observer.
While the disgraced, yet award-winning, Bellesiles is working on his taxpayer-funded next book, also about the history of guns in America, we wait to see how many grants and awards the factually accurate Ann Coulter wins.
http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_show.html?article=13668
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Who is lying to whom?
TWO YEARS AGO, "historian" Michael Bellesiles gained national fame for his book, "Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture," in which he posited that gun ownership in early America was rare and that there was no historical basis on which to claim that the Second Amendment protected individual rights to bear arms. His book won the Bancroft Award, the highest American award for a history book. Then objective reporters and historians began picking apart his book.
What they found was a mountain of lies. Bellesiles left out most historical evidence that contradicted his theory - evidence which greatly outweighed the evidence that backed up his theory. Furthermore, he misrepresented historical records and even claimed to have examined California records that do not exist - they were lost in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. After a lot of these flaws and apparent fabrications were revealed, Bellesiles still managed to win a $30,000 grant of National Endowment for the Humanities money, funneled through the Newberry Library in Chicago.
In February, the William and Mary Quarterly devoted an issue to having "Arming America" reviewed by other professional historians. The verdict was not favorable. Bellisiles' professional reputation was so tarnished that in April his employer, Emory University, announced it would conduct an investigation. Bellesiles is now on paid leave while the probe into his "research" continues.
All the while, columnist Ann Coulter was working on her book "Slander: Liberal Lies About The American Right." Since its publication in July, the book has held the No. 1 spot on The New York Times' best-seller list. Coulter's premise is that the left-leaning media in America are dishonest in their coverage of conservatives. The number of documented errors in Coulter's book: two, and they were both minor, according to a recent story in The New York Observer.
While the disgraced, yet award-winning, Bellesiles is working on his taxpayer-funded next book, also about the history of guns in America, we wait to see how many grants and awards the factually accurate Ann Coulter wins.
http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_show.html?article=13668
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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Who is lying to whom?
TWO YEARS AGO, "historian" Michael Bellesiles gained national fame for his book, "Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture," in which he posited that gun ownership in early America was rare and that there was no historical basis on which to claim that the Second Amendment protected individual rights to bear arms. His book won the Bancroft Award, the highest American award for a history book. Then objective reporters and historians began picking apart his book.
What they found was a mountain of lies. Bellesiles left out most historical evidence that contradicted his theory - evidence which greatly outweighed the evidence that backed up his theory. Furthermore, he misrepresented historical records and even claimed to have examined California records that do not exist - they were lost in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. After a lot of these flaws and apparent fabrications were revealed, Bellesiles still managed to win a $30,000 grant of National Endowment for the Humanities money, funneled through the Newberry Library in Chicago.
In February, the William and Mary Quarterly devoted an issue to having "Arming America" reviewed by other professional historians. The verdict was not favorable. Bellisiles' professional reputation was so tarnished that in April his employer, Emory University, announced it would conduct an investigation. Bellesiles is now on paid leave while the probe into his "research" continues.
All the while, columnist Ann Coulter was working on her book "Slander: Liberal Lies About The American Right." Since its publication in July, the book has held the No. 1 spot on The New York Times' best-seller list. Coulter's premise is that the left-leaning media in America are dishonest in their coverage of conservatives. The number of documented errors in Coulter's book: two, and they were both minor, according to a recent story in The New York Observer.
While the disgraced, yet award-winning, Bellesiles is working on his taxpayer-funded next book, also about the history of guns in America, we wait to see how many grants and awards the factually accurate Ann Coulter wins.
http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_show.html?article=13668
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878