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UPDATE: Republican calls for hanging of those who oppose president...

Posted by Evan Derkacz at 2:33 PM on February 15, 2007.


Peddles fraudulent Lincoln quote in Iraq debate... won't retract...
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As the House debates whether to nominally oppose the escalation of the war on Iraq and to support the troops -- a "nonbinding" resolution -- Alaska's sole congressman Don Young rose to oppose it, quoting (video right):

congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged.
The Republican believed (giving him the benefit of the doubt) that he was quoting Abraham Lincoln.

He was not. He was actually quoting a mistake from Insight magazine -- a publication full of half-baked claims and rumors -- funded by Rev. Moon.

That mistake, from December of 2003, has, over the course of the years, made its way into emails and the speech of a failed Republican candidacy.

Currently, it's the header to a neocon web-commentary on the other Moonie venture, the Washington Times, where, as Glenn Greenwald has noted, they refuse to take it down -- offering only to include a correction note at the bottom of his next commentary.

Miraculously, just two days later, this fraudulent, dangerous, anti-American quote finds its way into the mouth of a Republican congressman.

UPDATE:

According to Nico at ThinkProgress:
This morning, Young’s spokeswoman Meredith Kenney told ThinkProgress repeatedly that Young does not plan to take any action to correct the record or clarify his House statement.
Kenney said that Young had learned of the quote from Tuesday’s Washington Times op-ed by Frank Gaffney, and noted that the Times has not yet issued a correction or retraction. Kenney said she “couldn’t confirm or deny” that Young would correct his statement even if the Times published a correction.

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Evan Derkacz is an AlterNet editor. He writes and edits PEEK, the blog of blogs.


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