{"id":41405,"date":"2014-03-12T13:53:01","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T19:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/12\/killing-lincoln-or-at-least-his-sense-of-humor.html"},"modified":"2014-03-12T13:53:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T19:53:01","slug":"killing-lincoln-or-at-least-his-sense-of-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/12\/killing-lincoln-or-at-least-his-sense-of-humor.html","title":{"rendered":"Killing Lincoln (or at least his sense of humor)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Really, Bill? You wrote a book<\/i> about Lincoln (or about his assassination, anyway), and you have no clue that Lincoln was a master<\/i> of the amusing anecdote, the self-deprecating joke, the use of humor in person and in speeches to disarm and engage and sway people to his opinion?<\/p>\n

Yeesh.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Ross Dmochowski<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Actually +<\/span>Bill O'Reilly<\/a><\/span>\u00a0+<\/span>Fox News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0+<\/span>Fox News Insider<\/a><\/span>\u00a0
Lincoln had an awesome sense of humor.
http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/aa\/lincoln\/aa_lincoln_humor_1.html<\/a><\/p>\n

#foxnewsfail<\/a> #thanksObama<\/a> \u00a0\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Really, Bill? You wrote a book about Lincoln (or about his assassination, anyway), and you have no clue that Lincoln was a master of the amusing anecdote, the self-deprecating joke, the use of humor in person and in speeches to disarm and engage and sway people to his opinion? Yeesh. 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