Josh Hawley uses fake quote from ideologically congenial source
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Missour-ah’s junior senator celebrates July 4 in his own special way:
Maybe it’s time for Josh Hawley to get out of the history business.
Missouri’s senior senator on Tuesday decided to celebrate July 4 with another bit of online trolling. He took to Twitter to celebrate that great American patriot Patrick Henry. His tweet took the form of a quote.
Hawley wrote: “Patrick Henry: ‘It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.’”
The problem? Henry never said that. The quote is false. Made up.
Instead — as Hawley’s readers pointed out in a fact-checking Community Note appended to his tweet — the line from a 1956 piece in a magazine, The Virginian, that was about Patrick Henry. Not by him. Another magazine, The American Mercury, as a Henry quote later that year and apparently took off from there.
The kicker? As historian Seth Cotlar of Willamette University pointed out, The Virginian was “virulently antisemitic (and) white nationalist magazine.” The American Mercury, for that matter, was also an “antisemitic rag.”
REAL men don’t get their “history” from the Klan IMO.