Salon’s Justin Elliot reports that the National Park Service’s bookstore at the Ford Theater has recommended that Bill O’Reilly’s new book on Abraham Lincoln not be carried in the store “because of the lack of documentation and the factual errors within the publication.”
It should come as no surprise that O’Reilly’s “Killing Lincoln” would be a trifling, fact-challenged version of historical events. The Fox News host, who recently blew a gasket over $16.00 muffins that don’t exist, cannot be expected to accurately convey historical events that occurred 150 years ago when he can’t produce factual accounts of last week.
Amongst the errors in O’Reilly’s book are his multiple references to Lincoln in the Oval Office, which was not built until 1909. That’s typical of the sloppy reporting for which O’Reilly is famous. After all, this the same man that insisted that there are no homeless veterans in America. And that’s why we should be grateful for O’Reilly confessing his contribution to the debasement of journalism:
Indeed you have, Bill-O.
He is just providing his own version of what happened. After all, Bill’s revisionist take on history is the correct way to view historical events. That is what he is probably thinking.
That is hilarious and sad at the same time. How long before Billo claims the liberals in the NPS are discriminating against him because he works for Fox and is conservative? What a complete Dolt. I’m sure when he sat down and wrote this book it was all based on his memories and recollections of things he had read and heard about Lincoln over the years. Again Fox and/or one of its personalities passing on bad information and doing a disservice to the american public.
Wrong! Nice try though.