Ron Paul vs. The Stand In Ignoramus

Filed Under History, Republican Party, Ron Paul, Thomas DiLorenzo

Raw Story has the video of David Shuster, MSNBC’s military analyst Col. Jack Jacobs and Mika Brzezinski on Morning Joe with Ron Paul calling in to face Schuster’s inquisition on Lincoln heresies.
Ron Paul who finds this diversionary dialog a tiresome distraction from the issues that face us today suggests to Schuster and Jacobs that if they want to know something about the history of Lincoln and the Civil War that they should start by reading Tom DiLorenzo’s book The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War and like get back to me when you have a clue.
Ah! but these MSNBC BS artists won’t have any of that book learnin stuff, Jacobs especially made it clear that he won’t read anything but war is good, peace is bad books.

Thomas DiLorenzo writes this morning on the LRC blog:

Joe Scarborough’s stand-in on the “Morning Joe” television program, David Shuster, once again has tried to smear Ron Paul, and once again reveals his ignorance in doing so. This morning Ron called in to correct the lies that various neocons like Shuster have been spreading about what he said to Tim Russert about Lincoln and his war. Shuster adamantly claimed that Ron had “embarrassed himself” by claiming that Lincoln did not invade his own country to free the slaves. But it is Shuster who is embarrassingly ignorant of his own history. In fact, it would be hard to find a single American historian with any credibility who would argue that in 1861 an invasion of the Southern states was launched to free the slaves. Shuster is not only unaware of what is written in my book, The Real Lincoln, but also of what is in almost all other books on the war.

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