{"id":23735,"date":"2011-11-14T18:18:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T01:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/14\/speaking-of-dolts.html"},"modified":"2011-11-14T20:23:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T03:23:55","slug":"speaking-of-dolts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/14\/speaking-of-dolts.html","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Dolts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#39;m sure there will be plenty of grist for the dolt-blogging mill when Barton cranks out his next pseudo-historical epic, net-net I&#39;d rather he didn&#39;t, because a chunk of the population (including, but sadly not limited to, Bryan Fischer, but most especially folks who aren&#39;t Right-Wing spokes-zanies) will end up believing what Barton has to say about Thomas Jefferson. <\/p>\n<p>Though anyone whose resume includes &quot;As Seen on the Glenn Beck Show!&quot; should be given all due respect. Which, is to say, very little. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/david-barton-intends-report-truth-jefferson-lies'>David Barton Intends To Report The Truth On &quot;The Jefferson Lies&quot; | Right Wing Watch<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDavid Barton Intends To Report The Truth On &quot;The Jefferson Lies&quot;. Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on November 14, 2011 &#8211; 2:42pm. A few weeks ago, an atheist group put up a billboard in California &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#39;m sure there will be plenty of grist for the dolt-blogging mill when Barton cranks out his next pseudo-historical epic, net-net I&#39;d rather he didn&#39;t, because a chunk of the population (including, but sadly not limited to, Bryan Fischer, but most especially folks who aren&#39;t Right-Wing spokes-zanies) will end up believing what Barton has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/14\/speaking-of-dolts.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Speaking of Dolts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,109,108,27],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-23735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-church-state","category-history","category-religion","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25222,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/09\/jeffersons-bible-and-david-barton.html","url_meta":{"origin":23735,"position":0},"title":"Jefferson&#39;s Bible and David Barton","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 9-Jan-12 2:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"David Barton, pseudo-historian (and dolt), will soon be publishing The Jefferson Lies, wherein he tries to demonstrate that Thomas Jefferson was just as much of an evangelical, miracle-believing, Jesus-praising, conservative Christian as ... well, Dave Barton claims to be. 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